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  distributing, and certifying funds in accordance with the TSC’s four operational responsibilities and the
  commander’s priorities.
  3-111. In the DMC, the finance operations center is externally focused on the AOR in concert with the overall
  sustainment support operation, ensuring that finance contributes to the desired effects of the supported
  commander. The finance operations center plans current and future operations, and coordinates, integrates,
  and assesses emplacement and operations of finance units executing disbursing and payment support. The
  finance operations center is the key linkage between the strategic support from the United States Army
  Financial Management Command to the theater distribution network and finance units executing the financial
  management concept of operations. The finance operations center also advises the ASCC G-8 and TSC G-8s
  on the status of theater finance operations.
  EXPEDITIONARY SUSTAINMENT COMMAND
  3-112. The ESC is the expeditionary command for joint logistics. Normally, the ESC is task-organized to the
  TSC based upon the requirements of the operation. The ESC, when assigned as a subordinate element of the
  TSC, supports the deployed force while the TSC maintains AOR-wide focus. The ESC concentrates on
  synchronizing operational-level sustaining operations to meet the day-to-day and projected operational
  requirements of the supported force. It accomplishes this, in part, by establishing mid-range and short-range
  planning horizons derived from the supported commander’s OPLAN, commander’s intent, commander’s
  critical information requirements, tempo, and distribution system capacity. The expeditionary capability of
  ESCs becomes critical when multiple JTFs operate in an AOR. The ESC attached to a TSC has two
  operational responsibilities to forces in theater:
  • Synchronize and integrate sustainment support for a JFC or JTF within a JOA.
  • Support reception, staging, and onward movement within a JOA.
  SET THE THEATER
  3-113. Setting the theater is continuous and is conducted as part of competition for contingency or crisis
  response operations. Set the theater describes the broad range of activities conducted to establish the
  conditions in an operational area for the execution of strategic plans. The CCDR has overall responsibility
  for this activity but executes many responsibilities through the TSC of the ASCC. The purpose of setting a
  theater is to establish favorable conditions for the rapid execution of military operations and the support
  requirements for a specific OPLAN during crisis or conflict.
  3-114. Setting the theater involves all of the warfighting functions:
  • The focus of the command and control warfighting function is the organization and the command
  and control of forces to accomplish missions. The ASCC tailors and controls Army forces in the
  AOR. The TSC provides command and control of assigned and attached sustainment forces in the
  AOR.
  • The movement and maneuver warfighting function focuses on mobilization, deployment,
  employment, and redeployment of forces. The ASCC conducts theater opening and is responsible
  for RSOI of Army forces. The TSC provides TACON for movement of Army forces into theater,
  conducts RSOI, and provides command and control for theater distribution.
  • The intelligence warfighting function focuses on planning, collecting, producing, and disseminating
  intelligence. The ASCC provides Army intelligence capabilities to support CCMD operations. Part
  of that intelligence support is setting the theater from an intelligence perspective that is bigger than
  supporting sustainment operations (see FM 2-0). Supporting theater sustainment intelligence
  requirements is a significant and complex mission. The TSC G-2 directs, plans, collects, and
  disseminates intelligence to subordinate units to meet theater sustainment intelligence requirements.
  However, the TSC G-2 also depends on the intelligence enterprise and the theater intelligence
  architecture for access to timely, relevant, accurate, and predictive intelligence.
  • The fires warfighting function plans and directs Army fires in coordination with joint fires.
  Sustainment supports joint and Army fires.
  • The protection warfighting function focuses on establishing measures that make Army forces hard
  to detect. The ASCC is responsible for protection of Army forces in the AOR. Sustainment plans,
  coordinates, and executes protection plans for sustainment forces.