Examples Of Levels Of Sustainment

According to the army publication ADP 4-0, there are three principle levels of sustainment. They are logistics, personnel services, and health service support. By providing logistics support for the troop help ensure operational success by giving Army forces operational reach, freedom of action, and prolong endurance.

The United States military first got involved in Kosovo in the summer of 1999 and continues to present day. At its peak the United States had to sustain a full contingent of about 7,000 troops in support of Operation Joint Guardian. For the initial start of the operation the U.S troops were part of NATO’s 50,000 international security force. Over the last 17 years the security force has been known as Kosovo Force or KFOR.

For the past 17 years the U.S Army Materiel Command has had to continue to provide sustainment operations for the troops stationed at Camp Bondsteel. Which is a

The ethnic Serbians community in the northern part of the country still rejects the government in Pristina which is Kosovo’s capital. The Albanian government also makes stability operations in the region difficult at times for the KFOR security forces. Albania has at times tried to assert control of the border between northern Kosovo and Serbian. Serbs also have erected barrier across key road in the region. At times when KFOR attempted to remove some of the barricade they were occasionally met by violence, in some cases including gunfire.

With the agreement reach in April of 2013, Belgrade and Pristina reached an agreement on Normalization, which has been helping to improve relation between the two parties. Over time as the security situation continues to improve NATO will began to gradually adjusting the security force to a smaller more flexible force. Until then the U.S will continue to provide sustainment operations in support of its troops in support of Operation Joint