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Combat service support

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In the United States, the term combat service support has been phased-out in favor of the term "sustainment." but the mission remains the same; to manage the logistics supply chain and provide all materiel, maintenance, transportation, health services, personnel services and other services required
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by the warfighting units to permit those units to accomplish their missions in combat. The US Army accomplishes this mission through the use of Sustainment Brigades at division and Echelon-Above-Division. The traditional combat service support branches in the US Army include
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Within the Australian Army, combat service support is provided to combat elements at various levels: first line (organic to battalion or regimental level), second line (at brigade level), and third line (at formation or higher). Thus, for example an infantry unit such as the
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as having "teeth", units that are trained and equipped for actual fighting, that cannot function without an able, innovative "tail", units providing assistance such as
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Properly detailing the evolution of service support organizations and their current status in the context of history as well as accurately describing current policies.
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throughout the world to describe entities that provide direct and indirect sustainment services to the groups that engage (or are potentially to be engaged) in
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will include a logistics company which fills supply, transportation and maintenance functions, while a combat brigade, such as the
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This article is about the generic use of the term. For the use of the term specific to the United States, see
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and transport capabilities. Specific groups involved in the U.K. armed forces include the
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carry a wounded soldier out an operating tent on 20 June 1944.
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Index

Military service support
combat service support (United States)
WikiProject Military History
military organizations
combat

Operation Overlord
Royal Army Medical Corps
Defence Secretary
Philip Hammond
United Kingdom's armed forces
logistical
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Logistic Corps
Combat service support (United States)
Acquisition Corps
Adjutant General's Corps
Finance Corps
Ordnance Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Transportation Corps
Sustainment Brigades in the United States Army
5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
7th Brigade
7th Combat Service Support Battalion
17th Sustainment Brigade
Branches of the U.S. Army
Combat arms
Combat support
Logistics

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