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Logistics Ashore
AWI-019
Capt Landgraf
 Terminal Objective
• DESCRIBE the principles of Logistics support to
amphibious operations in accordance with JP 3-02
Amphibious Operations and NTTP 3-02.1M Ship-to-
Shore Movement.

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 Enabling objectives
19.1 DISCUSS the duties of the personnel responsible for
planning logistics support for an amphibious operation
IAW JP 3-02.
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19.2 DESCRIBE the logistics planning considerations IAW JP

3-02.
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19.3 DESCRIBE combat service support plans IAW JP 3-02.

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19.4 DESCRIBE the key constructs in amphibious logistics

plans and operations IAW JP 3-02.

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19.5 DISCUSS health service support requirements in

amphibious operations IAW JP 3-02. 3

 Enabling objectives
19.6 DESCRIBE the Landing Force Support Party (LFSP) and its
organization IAW JP 3-02.
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19.7 DISCUSS Landing Force Support Party (LFSP) planning

considerations and responsibilities IAW JP 3-02.

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19.8 DESCRIBE the support areas within the landing area IAW

NTTP 3-02.1.
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19.9 DESCRIBE surface and air logistics support request

processes IAW NTTP 3-02.1.

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19.10 DISCUSS the requirements and process of Landing Force

Support Party (LFSP) relief IAW JP 3-02.

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 references
qJOINT Pub 3-02, Amphibious
Operations, pages V-28 to 45
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qNTRP 3-02.1.2, The Naval Beach

Group Support Element Operations
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qNTTP 3-02.1/ MCWP 3-31.5, Ship-to-

Shore Movement
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 OVERVIEW
• Planning Responsibilities and
Considerations
• Combat Service Support Plans
• Health Service Support
• LFSP Organizations
• LFSP Planning Considerations
• Support Areas (TG)
• Request Process (TG)
• LFSP Relief
•
Planning

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 Planning
Responsibilities
• CATF is usually responsible for overall logistics
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 Planning
Responsibilities
• In support of forces assigned, the CATF is responsible
for:
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 Planning
Responsibilities
• CLF is responsible for:
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 Considerations
• Due to requirement for logistics support to
initially flow from sea to shore, systems
must be responsive, simple, flexible,
economical, attainable, sustainable
and survivable
• Must consider
– Embark based on anticipated support for LF
CONOPS ashore
– Establish a system that supports
changing phases of the operation
– Impetus of support from the rear directed
forward to the unit
– Preserve OPSEC
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 Planning Factors
• Operation characteristics
• Target date
• AOA characteristics
• Enemy capabilities
• Size, type of LF
• Means of distribution
• LOC, transportation
• Resupply
• Phased increase in logistics capabilities
• EPWs
• Availability of logistic means
• Compatibility, capability of support sys
• Comms means 12
Combat Service Support
(CSS) Plans

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 CSS Plans
• Coordination for logistical support is
essential due to the complications
of bringing supplies from afloat
units
• Planning is broken down to 2
primary time frames:
– Initial Supply
– Sustainment

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 Initial Supply
• Brought into the AOA as part of
the AE and AFOE
• Plans include ATF provisions for
embarkation, support during
movement, fueling and
maintenance of unique equipment
and supplies of water
• Plans for LF include tactical loading,
emergency supplies, efficient
handling and beach support areas
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 Sustainment
• Brought in post-D-day shipping with
Follow-up supplies
• A plan must be in place to provide
security for these cargo/USNS-type
ships as well as an orderly movement
in and out of the transport areas to
conduct their offloads
• Due to the volume of cargo
sustainment entails there must be
some form of port facility
established ashore and there must be
adequate manpower to operate it 16
Key constructs

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Key constructs

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Health Service Support
(HSS)

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Landing force support
party (LFSP)
(JP page V-42)

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 DEFINED
• Temporary LF organization,
composed of ATF and LF elements,
that facilitates the ship-to-shore
movement and provides initial
combat support and combat
service support (CSS) to the LF.
– CLF is responsible for the LFSP Plan
not the LCE.

V-42
 MISSION
• Provide initial combat service & combat
service support for LF Landing Plan
– Facilitate the landing and
movement of troops, equipment and
supplies across beaches and into
landing zones, ports and airfields.
– Evacuates casualties and enemy
prisoners of war (EPWs)
– Assist in the beaching , retraction &
salvaging of landing craft
– Facilitate the establishment of the LCE,
ACE and Naval Beach Group
–
 LFSP Commander and
C2
• Designated LFSP commander
controls landing support
operations within the landing area
• Initially operations are
decentralized and beaches are
independent and controlled by
Shore Party and Beach Party Teams
• Shore and Beach Party Groups are
then established and begin
consolidating the teams
• Once the LFSP is established ashore24
 FORMATION
• Forward Echelon of LCE
• Tasked organized
– Surface Assault Support Element
(Shore Party)
– MAGTF
– Naval Beach Group Element
• Established through a formal
activation order
• Operates for the purpose to center
Trainee Combat
Guide Support under a single
 CORE FUNCTIONS

• Command and Control

– Maintains & tracks all personnel, equipment
& supplies on beach head
• Beach Support Area Development
– Mark beach unloading sites
• Beach Throughput
– Assist units in landing & moving across
beaches
• Support for Helicopterborne Units
– Provide CSS
• Other Functions
– Establish Forward Armed Refueling Points
(FARPs)
 ORGANIZATIONS
HQ
Shore Party
Group
Beach Party
Group (BP)
Helicopter
Support Team
(HST)
Special
Attachments

V-42
Headquarters
 HEADQUARTERS
• Overall control of landing support operations
within the landing area.
• Matures from a small decentralized cell in the
early stages of S-T-S movement, to a robust
organization as operations expand and become
more centralized.
• Initial Stages “LSFP HQ is afloat”
– Decentralized to shore party & BP
teams on colored landing beaches
(First Waves)
• Shore Party and Beach Party carry out the
majority of the C2 functions
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Shore party group
 SHORE PARTY GROUP
• Formed from the nucleus of a Landing Support
(LS) Company from the LCE
• Capable of providing combat service support to a
Regimental Landing Team (RLT) across a
colored beach
• Upon landing, the shore party group commander
assumes control and then begins consolidating
activities on the group level

LCE Shore Party Group

LS
Company
 SHORE PARTY TEAM
• Formed from a Landing Support
Platoon, Landing Support Company
• Provides logistical support to a BLT
across a numbered beach
LCE

LS COMPANY Shore Party Team

LS
PLATOON

Trainee Guide
SHORE PARTY GROUP
– Headquarters
– Command section-
Admin/Communication
– Military Police Section
– Evacuation Section-MEDEVAC records
– Communications Section
– Motor Transport/Equip Section
– Replacement Personnel
 SHORE PARTY GROUP
FUNCTIONS
• Mark beach limits/unloading points
• Designate/Mark landing sites
• Locate and establish supply dumps
• Assist units landing/moving across
beaches
•  Mark/remove obstacles
• Construct/maintain beach lateral and
exit roads
 SHORE PARTY TASKS
• Control traffic in BSA
•  Establish lateral communication between
beaches and Helicopter Landing Zones
(HLZs)
•  Evacuate casualties and EPWs
•  Maintain records and dump status
•  Coordinate movement/unloading supplies
from amphibious vehicles, beached
landing craft and helicopters; move these
supplies to dumps or using units, as
required.
•  Provide local security and coordinate the
BSA defense.
 SHORE PARTY TASKS

• Establish/maintain a system to warn

of air, ground or NBC attacks within
the BSA
• Provide graves registration
• Construct helicopter landing sites
within the BSA
• Load helicopters with supplies for
delivery inland
• Rearm/refuel aviation assets as
required
Assault Loading- Appledore May 1944 Watercolor by Dwight C. Shepler
Beach party group
 BEACH PARTY GROUP

• Headquarters
• Beach Party Team(s)
• Beach Support Unit
• LCAC Landing Zone (CLZ) Team(s)

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LCAC-1 US NAVY
 BEACH PARTY GROUP
• Primary Functions
– Installing navigational aids & removing
obstacles
– Marking beach landing sites
– Advising Shore Party Commanders
of suitable sites for beaching
amphibious craft
– Directing landing craft & amphibious
vehicles to and from beach landing
sites
– Observing and reporting surf
conditions to the PCO
– Conducting salvage operations & making
 BEACH PARTY GROUP
4 Beachmasters
4 Traffic control
4 Beach salvage
capabilities
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4 AMPHIB SEABEEs
4 Amphibious
construction
capabilities
4 Ship to shore
bulk fuel
systems
 BEACH PARTY TEAM
• Navy counterpart of the Shore
Party Team
• Basic unit of the Beach Party
• Organization
– Headquarters
– Communications section
– Traffic control section
– Salvage section
– Oceanographic section
– Other sections
Helicopter support
 Helicopter support

4Formed from a Landing Support Platoon,

Landing Support Company
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4Provides logistical support landing zone support
area (LZSA) across a numbered beach
 SPECIAL ATTACHMENTS
4 Navy Seals
4 Navy Explosive Ordnance Units
LFSP Plan
 LFSP PLAN
• Prepared by the CLF and subordinate
commanders
• Includes:
– Org and mission
– Instructions to subordinate
elements
– LFSP comms
– Beach and LZ defense instructions
– Admin instructions
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 PLANNING
CONSIDERATIONS
• Early, detailed analysis of the beach landing area. 
• Organization of Beach Support Areas (BSAs)
and Landing Zone Support Area (LZSA).
• Communications between tactical units, control
elements and landing support units. 
• Composition of the AE and AFOE. 
• Development of plans after the seizure of the
objective area. 
• Analysis of tactical plans and their landing support
requirements (CSS). 
• Environmental management
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 PLANNING
CONSIDERATIONS
• Combat loading of each assault ship. 
• Concept of combat service support. 
• Environmental management requirements 
• Employment of the sea echelon concept. 
• Defense requirements of BSAs and landing areas. 
• Enemy activity and installations in the objective
area. 
• Establishment of the landing force’s scheme of
maneuver and landing plan.
• Evaluation of beach hydrographic conditions and
terrain features inland from the beaches. This
also includes HLZs.  
 PLANNING
CONSIDERATIONS
• Distribution and throughput of classes of supplies
from the assault ship. 
• Availability of personnel, supplies, and equipment
for shore party operations. 
• Availability of assault shipping. 
• Development of plans for handling of EPWs. 
• Development of casualty evacuation and disaster
recovery plans.
• Identification of coordination requirements with
other agencies. 
• Organization of LCE or units.
 Responsibilities
• CLF is responsible for activation
of the LFSP and conduct of
operations as well as their
employment and security
• CATF is responsible for related plans
that provide support to the LFSP
such as pontoon
causeway/lighterage, unloading,
EPW
• Tactical Unit Supported is responsible
Support Areas

(Trainee Guide)
SAMPLE HLZ
 OPERATIONS
• Embark and landing responsibilities rest
with the tactical unit being supported
•
• Build up of the LFSP parallels the tactical
build up ashore
•
• The landing support task organization
changes as required
•
• Relieved by LCE
Request process
Control organization
 TACTICAL LOGISTICS
(TACLOG)
• A Marine agency for advising and
assisting the Navy control
organization regarding landing
force requirements during ship-to-
shore movement
 TACLOG
• Link between MAGTF, Navy, and LFSP
– Know units ashore, status of requests
– Coordinate movement of assault
waves
• Scheduled
• On-call
• Non-scheduled
 HELICOPTERBORNE UNITS
• Same basic sequence as surface
• Requests received by the HST via
HST logistics net

ROGER! SEND IT
FORWARD…
 HELICOPTERBORNE UNITS
• Landing Zone Support Area (LZSAs)
checked
– If available, issued
• HST then request replenishment
through
TACLOG for replenishment

LZSA

LF
REQUEST
 HELICOPTERBORNE UNITS
• If not available at LZSA
– Check BSA
– If available, Shore Party issues
– Shore Party requests to TACLOG for
replenishment
• If not available
– Request processed to TACLOG
– Movement coordinated with TACC or
TADC
BSA LZSA
 HELICOPTERBORNE UNITS
• Emergency supplies pre-staged on
Helicopter Transport Ships

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 COMBAT SERVICE SUPPORT
REQUEST SYSTEM
 SURFACE LANDED UNITS
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 ONCE COMMUNICATIONS ARE

ESTABLISHED WITH THE SHORE
PARTY
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4 The LF submits requests for serials &

supplies via the Shore Party Team
over the LFSP Control Net
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 SURFACE LANDED UNITS
• When request is received
– Dumps in the BSA are checked
– If on hand, it is issued
– Request processed to TACLOG to
replenish dumps at BSA

LF
REQUEST
 SURFACE LANDED UNITS
• If item not at the BSA
– Request is passed to TACLOG
– TACLOG locates ship of item
requested
– TACLOG arranges with PCO
• To notify ship designated
• Provide landing craft
• Effect loading
TACLOG
 SURFACE LANDED UNITS
• Landing craft loaded
• Ship notifies PCO
• Dispatches landing craft
• PCO notifies TACLOG
• TACLOG notifies Shore Party of ETA
• Item arrives at BSA
• Shore Party notifies TACLOG
• Shore Party delivers item
 SURFACE LANDED UNITS
• Emergency supplies in floating
dumps
• Commander ashore may request via
Shore Party or TACLOG
• ALWAYS CHECK WITH THE SHORE
PARTY FIRST
 LFSP relief

JP page V-45 e, also V-34 b

 PASSING CONTROL
• FROM THE LFSP TO THE LCE
•
• LFSP is disbanded after LCE is ashore
and ready to assume responsibility
for operations in the BSA/LZSA
•
• Relief without loss in efficiency takes
coordination, liaison and attention
to detail
 REVIEW
• What LFSP organizations go ashore
with a BLT?
• Shore Party Team & Beach Party
Team

• What LFSP organizations go ashore

with a RLT?
• Shore party Group & Beach Party
Group
 REVIEW
• Who is responsible for the
embarkation and landing of the
LFSP?
• The tactical unit being supported
 REVIEW
• Who does a surface landed unit call
to receive supplies?
• The Shore Party Team

• What is the mission of the LFSP?

• To provide initial and limited combat
service support for the landing
force during ship to shore
movement
 SUMMARY
• Planning Responsibilities and
Considerations
• Combat Service Support Plans
• Health Service Support
• LFSP Organizations
• LFSP Planning Considerations
• Support Areas
• Request Process
• LFSP Relief