FM 55-51 ·Army ·1972 Army Water transport Units
This manual is published as a training, planning, and operational guide for unit commanders, staff officers, key noncommissioned officers, and other personnel concerned with Army water transport units of the water terminal family as a part…
FM 55-52 ·Army ·1957 Transportation Terminal Battalion and Terminal Service Company
1. Purpose and Scope This manual provides a guide for all personnel concerned with the activation, organization, training, and employment of the headquarters and headquarters detachment, transportation ter- minal battalion, and the…
FM 55-55 ·Army ·1944 Transportation Corps : Railway Operating Battalion
Go ogle This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on Hbrary shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the…
FM 55-55-1 ·Army ·1967 Transportation Terminal Operations (TEST)
This manual is published to provide interim guidance to commanders, staff officers, and other personnel concerned with terminal operations support under the TASTA-70 concept of organization and operation. This information can be utilized…
FM 55-56 ·Army ·1965 Transportation Terminal Transfer Company
1. Purpose and Scope a. This manual is a training, planning, and op- erational guide for unit commanders, staff officers, and other personnel associated with the organiza- tion and employment of the transportation terminal transfer…
FM 55-57 ·Army ·1960 Transportation Harbor Craft Units and Marine Maintenace Units
evaluation. Comments should be forwarded direct to US Army Transportation School. 2. References The duties and responsibilities of key personnel and the technical operations of harbor craft are discussed in FM 55-58 and TM 55-501.…
FM 55-6 ·Army ·1961 Transportation Services in Theaters of Operations 9-29
the specific page, paragraph, and line of the text in which the change is recommended. Reasons should be provided for each comment to insure understanding and complete evaluation. Comments should be forwarded direct to the Commandant, U.S.…
FM 55-6-1 ·Army ·1967 Transportation Service in Theaters of Operation (TEST)
This manual provides interim guidance to commanders, staff officers, and other personnel concerned with transportation services support under the TASTA-70 concept of organization and operation. This information can be utilized to…
FM 55-60 ·Army ·1944 Transportation Corps: Railway Shop Battalion
Tkis manual supersedes TM 5-410• 29 Navember 1940 SECTION I GENERAL 1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE. a. This manual explains the organization and operation of the railway shop battalion for employment on a standard military railway. Its purpose is to…
FM 55-61 ·Army ·1973 Milstamp Guidance Manual
FM 55-61 CHAPTER 2 MILSTAMP DEFINED 2—1. General a. The deployment of our armed forces in various parts of the world requires the Depart- ment of Defense to organize a logistics system so that essential supplies will reach the customer in…
FM 55-62 ·Army ·1973 Inspection of Household Goods and Personal Property for Shipment, Storage, or Damage and Loss Claims
FM 55-62 Modes of Transportation. As used in this manual, this refers to a type of transportation service, such as air-van, door-to-door container, motor-van, sea-van, etc. g. Packaging. The necessary treatment to ren- der an item safe for…
FM 55-63 ·Army ·1974 Fundamental of Airframe Maintenance
1. 3. Eairiy ÂîireraiFtf Sfîmuneîyres a. In aviation's early days, wood and fabric, reinforced by metal accessories, were strong enough to withstand the vibrations and torsional stresses occurring in slow flying aircraft. Main- tenance of…
FM 55-65 ·Army ·1995 Strategic Deployment
In response to a military need or crisis, strategic deploy- ment is the strategic relocation and concentration of forces and their support base (manpower and logistics). Strate- gic deployment consists of the movement from CONUS into a…
FM 55-70 ·Army ·1977 Army Transportation Container Operations
This manual provides commanders, staff officers, and others concerned with general guidance pertaining to transportation container operations in the Army. The manual is intended as interim guidance to serve until operational experience…
FM 55-700 ·Army ·1975 Air Transport Procedures Transport of Spartan Warhead Section in Shipping and Storage Container XM553
3. General Safety and Security Considerations a. The following warnings will be observed by personnel performing operations, procedures, and practices that are included or implied in this manual. Disregard of these warnings could result in…
FM 55-8 ·Army ·1970 Transportation Intelligence
FM 55-8 CHAPTER 2 SOURCES AND SCOPE OF TRANSPORTATION INTELLIGENCE * 1 L 2-1. Definitions and Employment of Intelligence a. Intelligence Intelligence is the product resulting from the collection, evaluation, analysis, integration, and…
FM 55-80 ·Army ·1997 Army Container Operations
TO INTERMODALISM 1-1. BACKGROUND. The DOD relies on commercial sealift to move 85 percent of cargo during contingency operations. The US and world merchant fleets are dominated by large, fast containerships with supporting corporate…
FM 55-9 ·Army ·1994 Unit Air Movement Planning
Air movement is initially the primary transportation method used during crisis response. World situations that call for a rapid response by the armed forces use airlift to quickly move to an area of operations. Air movement of units…
FM 63-1 ·Army ·1994 Support Battalions and Squadrons, Separate Brigades and Armored Cavalry Regiment
This manual provides information on the structure and operations of the support battalion of the separate brigades and the armored cavalry regiment support squadron. It is directed toward the commanders and staffs of the support…
FM 63-11 ·Army ·1996 Logistics Support Element Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Effective force projection logistics requires a seamless logistics system operating across the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Logistics elements from CONUS and the theater of operations must work together with tactical…
FM 63-2 ·Army ·1991 DIVISION SUPPORT COMMAND, ARMORED, INFANTRY, and MECHANIZED INFANTRY DIVISIONS
The primary purpose of division defensive operations is the defeat of an enemy attack. The defense must create conditions that permit the division to survive the initial shock of an attack. Emphasis with the defense is to halt the enemy,…
FM 63-2-1 ·Army ·1994 Division Support Command, Light Infantry, Airborne, and Air Assault Divisions
This manual provides information on the structure and operations of the DISCOM in the light infantry, airborne, and air assault divisions. Information specific to the DISCOMs in the airborne and air assault divisions are provided in…
FM 63-20 ·Army ·1990 Forward Support Battalion
FM 63-20 Cavalry squadron. All these units will require CSS on a battlefield unlike any encountered in the Forward support battalion. past. The AirLand Battlefield will be characterized by fluid, nonlinear operations and Air liaison…
FM 63-21 ·Army ·1990 Main Support Battalion
FM 63-21 CHAPTER 1 MSB Organization and Functions ARMORED, MECHANIZED INFANTRY, INFANTRY, HEAVY/LIGHT DIVISIONS Main support battalions exist in four types of divisions. They are the armored, mechanized infantry, infantry, and heavy/light…
FM 63-22 ·Army ·1988 Headquarters, Headquarters Company, and Division Materiel Management Center, Division Support Command, Armored, Mechanized, and Motorized Divisions
This manual provides information on the structure and operations of the DISCOM HHC and DMMC. It is directed toward the commander and staff of the DISCOM HHC and DMMC within divisions organized and operating under L-edition TOEs as modified…
FM 63-3 ·Army ·1993 Corps Support Command
This manual describes how the COSCOM supports the corps force and its weapon systems for combat on modern battlefields. It describes how the COSCOM sustains soldiers and how it arms, fuels, fixes, and moves the corps force. Since…
FM 700-80 ·Army ·1990 Logistics
TO ARMY LOGISTICS 1-6. General a. To quote from Dr. James A. Huston, The Sinews of War: Army Logistics 1775–953: "Logistics is the application of time and space factors to war. It is the economics of warfare, and it comprises, in the…
FM 701-58 ·Army ·1987 Planning Logistics Support for Military Operations
FM 701-58 B-7. Supply. b. Class I. a. General. Is supply system and procedural guidance provided? Is the flow of requisitions described? Do automated systems of supported units and task organized CSS units have interface? Is the flow of…
FM 704-28 ·Army ·1978 Classes of Supply
This is the first field manual to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2-13b(3) AR 310-2 which provides for numbering logistics field manuals in the 700 "logistic" series with a subseries to identify logistics levels…
FM 710-27 ·Army ·1989