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29 Cards in this Set
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How many Battalions are in a typical FSSG?
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8
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How many Co are in a typical FSSG?
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30
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What is the Mision of the LSB?
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The LSB provides general support of the ship-to-shore movement during amphibious operations and of terminal operations during subsequent operations ashore, to ensure required throughput of supplies, equipment, and personnel for the sustainment of MEF operations.
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How is the LSB organized?
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The LSB provides general support of the ship-to-shore movement during amphibious operations and of terminal operations during subsequent operations ashore, to ensure required throughput of supplies, equipment, and personnel for the sustainment of MEF operations.
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How many Battalions are in the LSB?
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4
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How many tasks are in LSB?
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6
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Provide control and coordination of landing support and throughput capabilities, including port and terminal operations, as well as material-handling and air delivery support, in support of operations conducted by the MEF or MAGTFs smaller than a MEF.
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Task #1
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Provide a nucleus from which assets for the landing force support party (LFSP) will provide the command and control structure to ensure landing support and initial CSS for the assault echelon (AE) of the MEF in support of amphibious operations.
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Task #2
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Provide port and terminal operations at ports, beaches, railheads, air heads, and cargo terminals, including specialized MHE and management of freight/passenger and break bulk/container cargo throughput.
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Task #3
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Provide air delivery support equipment and rigger personnel beyond the organic capabilities of supported units, in support of MEF operations.
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Task #4
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Perform the basic engineer tasks that are required for landing support operations, including austere site preparation, construction/removal of obstacles and barriers, and establishment of routes of egress from the beach, when properly augmented.
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Task #5
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Provide local security for numbered/colored beaches as required
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Task #6
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How many Company are in the Motor T Battalions?
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3
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How many Tasks
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4
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Provide medium- and heavy-lift transport and distribution of bulk dry/water cargo, class III and III(A), and class V and V(A) supplies
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Task #1
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Provide line haul and unit/supply point distribution of bulk liquids, with motor transport augmentation as required from supported unit(s).
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Task #2
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Provide heavy equipment lift augmentation, including evacuation of tracked vehicles, to supported units of the MEF.
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Task #3
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Provide personnel lift augmentation to supported units of the MEF.
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Task #4
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A designated area on a hostile or potentially hostile shore that, when seized and held, ensures the continuous landing of troops and materiel, and provides maneuver space requisite for subsequent projected operations ashore.
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Beachhead
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In amphibious operations, the area to the rear of a landing force or elements thereof, established and operated by shore party units, which contains the facilities for the unloading of troops and materiel and the support of the forces ashore; it includes facilities for the evacuation of wounded, enemy prisoners of war, and captured materiel.
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Beach Support Area (BSA)
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A commissioned naval unit of the naval beach group designed to provide to the shore party a naval component known as a beach party which is capable of supporting the amphibious landing of one division (reinforced).
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Beach Master Unit
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The Navy officer designated in the order initiating the amphibious operation as the commander of the amphibious task force.
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Commander Amphibious Task Force (CATF)
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The officer designated in the order initiating the amphibious operation as the commander of the landing force.
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Commander Landing Force (CLF)
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The unloading of troops, equipment, or supplies from a ship or aircraft.
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Debarkation
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A task organization formed and equipped for employment in a landing zone to facilitate the landing and movement of helicopter-borne troops, equipment and supplies, and to evacuate selected casualties and enemy prisoners of war. (Joint Pub 1-02). It may be built around a nucleus of shore party and helicopter landing zone control personnel.
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Helicopter Support Team (HST)
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(DOD, NATO) That portion of a shoreline usually required for the landing of a battalion landing team. However, it may also be that portion of a shoreline constituting a tactical locality (such as the shore of a bay) over which a force larger or smaller than a battalion landing team may be landed.
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Landing Beach
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(DOD, NATO) Personnel specially trained and equipped to establish and operate communications devices from the ground for traffic control of aircraft/helicopters for a specific landing zone.
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Landing Force Control Party (LFCP)
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(DOD, NATO) Any specified zone used for the landing of aircraft.
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Landing Zone(LZ)
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A task organization of the landing force, formed for the purpose of facilitating the landing and movement of the troops, equipment, and supplies to the beach and for the evacuation from the beach of casualties and enemy prisoners of war. Also responsible facilitating the beaching, retraction, and salvaging of landing ships and craft. It comprises elements of both the naval and landing forces.
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Shore Party
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