text: Chapter 3
  3-115. Setting the theater during competition (from a sustainment perspective) involves actions to provide
  sustainment (logistics, financial management operations, personnel services, and HSS) to SOF, security force
  assistance brigades, military engagements, and security cooperation. It also involves conducting sustainment
  preparation of the OE and other activities in support of daily Title 10 requirements, contingency operations,
  and crisis response operations.
  3-116. The ASCC conducts theater sustainment analysis as part of setting the theater. This analysis begins
  during competition and continues during crisis. This analysis identifies risk in terms of access, capabilities,
  and capacities across the AOR. It consists of the actions taken by sustainment planners to optimize means
  (force structure, resources, and strategic lift) for supporting the command's plan. These actions include
  identifying and preparing ISBs and forward operating bases, selecting and improving LOCs, forecasting and
  building operational stock assets forward and afloat, and designing a distribution and automatic information
  technology network and infrastructure for the theater. Sustainment preparation of the OE is part of setting
  the theater and identifies potential risks in terms of access, infrastructure capabilities, and capacities in theater
  so planners can develop alternatives and mitigating measures. Logistics planners use the sustainment
  preparation of the OE analysis to optimize the distribution system.
  3-117. The theater campaign plan is the CCDR's vehicle for operationalizing the theater strategy. It provides
  a framework within which the CCDR conducts security cooperation activities and military engagement with
  regional partners through cooperative security and development. A theater campaign plan's main function is
  to provide guidance to coordinate steady-state components of contingency planning by conducting security
  cooperation activities across the AOR.
  3-118. The theater Army develops the force structure required to support the theater campaign plan. The
  theater Army requests Army forces and the resources required to support them. These resources include
  required sustainment capabilities. The theater Army, in conjunction with the sustainment command (TSC or
  ESC), provides support to forces participating in exercises to support the theater security cooperation plan,
  designs effective and efficient movement plans for land forces into and out of the theater of operations, and
  also requests forces to support ongoing Army responsibilities for sustainment.
  3-119. Sustainment support to setting the theater involves theater opening and receiving initial forces,
  equipment, and supplies, assembling them into mission-tailored units, and transporting them to their final
  destination. LOGCAP ensures a rapid response to emerging crises. The Army should also utilize HNS to the
  maximum extent possible to give sustainment units time to close in theater. The Army places set the theater
  as a priority and provides for holistic operational planning across the Army's strategic roles. LOGCAP
  planners are placed at the ASCC, TSC, and corps with LOGCAP decision authority residing at the ASCC.
  3-120. Set the theater activities during competition may also include establishing a distribution network,
  identifying local procurement requirements, employing the TG PAT, and setting the conditions for medical
  operations. The broad range of set the theater activities also includes the synchronization and integration of
  sustainment through the establishment of boards, bureaus, centers, cells, and working groups. For more
  information on set the theater activities, see JP 3-31, ADP 3-0, ADP 4-0, FM 1-0, FM 3-0, FM 3-94, FM
  1-06, ATP 3-93, and ATP 4-10.
  3-121. Establishing the distribution network is a complex joint effort. The CCDR typically establishes a
  JDDOC. It is an integral component of the CCDR's staff, normally under the staff supervision of the CCMD
  J-4. A JDDOC may be co-located with the DMC. Some initial tasks of the JDDOC include—
  • Monitoring airlift and sealift flow.
  • Providing movement control of arriving supplies, personnel, equipment, and units.
  • Establishing theater-wide capabilities required to meet anticipated transportation and throughput
  capacities.
  Financial Management Support to Set the Theater
  3-122. Financial managers assist commanders with setting the theater by tailoring and projecting financial
  management support to the force. Some initial tasks include—
  • Identifying funding authority for deployment operations and funding in support of operations, to
  include special funding authorities throughout the strategic roles.