text: Operations During Crisis
  units to provide Soldiers to guard equipment and supplies throughout the deployment process. Commanders
  can also direct units to have Soldiers carry certain sensitive items as part of their individual loads throughout
  the deployment process.
  5-38. Corps and division commanders submit protection plans before their arrival overseas through the
  respective ARFOR or the theater army headquarters to the CCDR responsible for all military forces in the
  AOR within which deploying forces will operate. These plans should align with the guidance developed by
  the CCDR, who coordinates and approves various deploying unit protection plans.
  RECEPTION, STAGING, ONWARD MOVEMENT, AND INTEGRATION
  5-39. RSOI is the process that delivers combat power to the JFC in a theater of operations or a JOA. RSOI
  is the responsibility of the theater army and its associated theater sustainment command (TSC). During crises
  involving a peer adversary, RSOI must occur rapidly in as many dispersed locations as possible to complicate
  adversary targeting. It is a theater-level process, with careful coordination required between units, theater
  sustainment personnel, host-nation support, and commercial entities. Effective RSOI matches personnel with
  their equipment, minimizes staging and sustainment requirements while transiting these ports of debarkation,
  and begins onward movement as quickly as possible. Deploying units need to understand and implement
  previously developed plans to accomplish integration and maintain combat readiness upon their arrival. (See
  JP 3-35 and ATP 3-35 for a discussion of factors and considerations associated with the conduct of RSOI.)
  Reception
  5-40. Reception is the process of receiving, offloading, marshalling, accounting for, and transporting of
  personnel, equipment, and materiel from the strategic and/or intratheater deployment phase to a sea, air, or
  surface transportation point of debarkation to the marshalling area (JP 3-35). As the initial step of introducing
  combat power on the ground, reception determines success or failure of the RSOI operation. Efficiency
  imparts speed, which requires well-understood plans flexible enough to overcome friction.
  5-41. The theater army or a designated sustainment unit (typically the assigned TSC) implements reception
  from strategic lift activities at or near designated air and seaports of debarkation. While the reception plan
  for each theater varies, reception capacity should at least equal planned strategic lift delivery capability. At a
  minimum, the theater army considers the impact of joint C2, movement control, and port operations while
  planning. Additionally, commanders and their staffs consider dispersion, air and missile defense (AMD), and
  other security measures when planning and conducting reception operations based on the vulnerability to
  enemy special-purpose forces and long-range fires.
  Staging
  5-42. Staging is assembling, holding, and organizing arriving personnel, equipment, and sustaining materiel
  in preparation for onward movement (JP 3-35). Staging is the part of the RSOI operation that unites unit
  personnel with their equipment and prepares them for onward movement and employment by the JFC. During
  staging, deploying forces have limited mission capability and are generally not self-sustainable. Most units
  require extensive maintenance, supply, protection, and life support while staging. In some cases, their
  equipment must be reconfigured following transport on ships or aircraft.
  Onward Movement
  5-43. Onward movement is the process of moving forces and sustainment from reception facilities and
  marshalling or staging areas to tactical assembly areas or other operating areas. Many external factors
  influence onward movement. They include the availability of transportation assets and the requirements of
  their future higher echelon headquarters. These factors determine the sequence in which units move from
  their staging areas onward to their respective AOs. Plans for the movement of a corps or division headquarters
  and its attached and supporting divisions or brigades into an AO maintain a balance between security and
  flexibility.
  5-44. Corps and division commanders rely heavily on their staffs and integrating cells to finish coordinating
  their movement plans to their projected AOs with all necessary military and civilian agencies. The logistics
  distribution network may be operated by the U.S. military, the host nation, or by a combination of military