NS3 Test Bank: NS3-M1U2C4 - Naval Logistics

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Which logistics principle involves acquiring the minimum essential logistic support to begin combat operations?

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Attainability

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Which element of logistics pertains to methods used to get logistics support to the operating forces, considering what is being moved, its origin and destination, lift assets available, and urgency assigned?

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Distribution

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The procurement of commodities, facilities, major weapons and end items

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Acquisition

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Unspecialized products, such as food or POL, mass-produced for cost effectiveness

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Commodities

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Which logistics principle involves acquiring the minimum essential logistic support to begin combat operations?

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Attainability

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Large stocks of war supplies and ammunition at key locations placed in strategic locations as a contingency for war

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Prepositioned stocks

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Within the Department of the Navy, logistics planning is the responsibility of

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the operational commander.

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A good distribution system takes into account: origin, destination, lift assets, and urgency.

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origin, destination, lift assets, and urgency.

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The Navy and Air Force planes used for airlift operations during the Korean War proved that

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no possible means of support can be ignored.

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The main difference between the overall logistic problem of the Korean War as compared with that of World War II was that

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there was no general mobilization period for the military, nor was the national economy ever mobilized for an all-out effort.