text: Chapter 3
  Joint Task Force-Port Opening
  3-26. The joint task force-port opening is an option available to the CCDR. The Air Force’s Air Mobility
  Command is responsible for managing APODs, and SDDC is responsible for managing SPODs. The Navy’s
  Military Sealift Command provides sealift from its organic fleet or through contracts with commercial ocean
  carriers. The joint task force-port opening facilitates joint reception, staging, and onward movement and
  theater distribution by providing an interface at the APOD and/or SPOD and distribution node. Joint task
  force-port opening capabilities include:
  • APOD and SPOD assessment.
  • APOD and SPOD opening and initial operation.
  • Distribution network assessment.
  • Distribution node management.
  • Cargo and passenger operations.
  • Coordination with movement control for onward movement of arriving cargo and passengers.
  • Establishment of joint in-transit visibility and radio frequency identification networks.
  3-27. Another key task of the joint task force-port opening is to open and initially operate an associated
  forward distribution node (such as cargo marshalling or transload) within 10 kilometers of the airfield ramp
  area. The joint task force-port opening may be employed to move the cargo off the ramp at the airfield to the
  forward node for eventual distribution into the theater. The Army has an on-call mission to support joint task
  force-port opening as needed.
  Transportation Brigade Expeditionary
  3-28. The TBX provides command and control of assigned and attached port, terminal, and watercraft units
  conducting expeditionary port-opening, movement control, and austere intermodal operations at unimproved
  seaports. It has the ability to conduct port operations and can provide command and control to both watercraft
  and water terminal organizations.
  Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration
  3-29. RSOI is an ongoing series of four interrelated and overlapping processes that ensure synchronized
  clearance of nodes and assembly of combat power that is then rapidly transported to point of need to support
  operational requirements.
  3-30. Reception is the process of receiving, off-loading, 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). The TSC implements reception
  from strategic lift activities at or near designated air and seaports of debarkation.
  3-31. 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. The
  TSC provides sustainment support to units during staging.
  3-32. 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. Corps and division
  commanders coordinate their movement plans to their projected AOs with all necessary military and civilian
  agencies.
  3-33. Integration is the synchronized transfer of units into an operational commander’s force prior to mission
  execution.
  SUPPORT TO OTHER SERVICES
  3-34. Support to other Services relies on joint interdependence that is essential to sustainment operations.
  Joint interdependence occurs when one Service relies on another Service’s capabilities such as common-user
  transportation. This allows Services to maximize optimum use of resources and reduce duplication of effort
  and competition for the same resources. The CCDR implements joint interdependence through DAFL and
  can assign the Army the task of providing common-user support to other Services.