text: Chapter 5
  5-43. Contracted sustainment support should include considerations for operational security and address the
  constraints and limitations of contracted support. Planning should address under what conditions contracted
  support should be used and where to emplace it on the battlefield. During large-scale combat operations,
  planners should be aware of the location of contracting organizations forward of the corps rear boundary.
  This is for both operational security and effectiveness. Many contracting vendors use local nationals that may
  gather essential elements of friendly information and communicate that information to threat entities which
  could compromise an operation and lead to failure. Although local contracting for services and commodities
  might be limited due to operational area effects and constraints, these elements are present to support the
  maneuver forces with requirements anticipation, development, and provision of support.
  5-44. The transition from offensive operations to defensive operations requires sustainment forces to have
  Class IV stocks on-hand. Forces require every option to defend from attacks, and these include protective
  barrier material such as concertina wire, bastions, and lumber for overhead cover. Transitioning back to
  offensive operations may require aggregate for road repair, ford sites, and gap crossing preparation. Class IV
  is also required for detainee collection points and holding areas and theater detention facilities.
  5-45. Sustainment planners should anticipate increased expenditures of munitions during large-scale combat
  operations that could exceed the availability in theater. The munitions section of the TSC and ESC DMC
  must monitor expenditure rates in relation to stockage levels, forecasts regarding current and future
  operations, and limitations to re-supply and recommend controlled supply rates to the CCDR. Reconciling
  controlled supply rates and required supply rates is informed by OPLANS and anticipated expenditure rates.
  5-46. Ammunition planning includes determining ammunition requirements, echeloning capabilities and
  ammunition units, establishing split-based operations where required, pre-configuring ammunition and
  resupply, and, when required, using civilian, contractor, allied, and host-nation capabilities. A combat
  configured load is a mixed ammunition package designed to provide for the complete round concept, type of
  unit, type of vehicle, capacity of transporter, and weapons system (ATP 4-35). Contents of the package are
  predetermined and provide optimum distribution velocity, quality, and mix to support a particular weapon
  system or unit. Combat configured loads can be built at either the national-provider level or in a theater.
  Combat configured loads built at the national-provider level may be reconfigured in theater at an ammunition
  supply point as required and delivered as far forward to the using unit as possible.
  5-47. Building, storing, transporting, and rebuilding the configured load with unused Class V requires
  significant amounts of personnel, facilities, haul, and security. Sustainment and supported units should
  consider building combat configured loads to meet the Class V demands for initial entry operations and large-
  scale combat operations. Configured loads represent a way of requesting or pushing ammunition rapidly with
  a mix of all or most of the munitions a weapons platform or unit needs. Combat configured loads can be
  quickly distributed to the platform level with little to no intermediate handling but are resource intensive.
  5-48. The supported unit commander determines ammunition required supply rates based on desired effects
  (obscure, destroy, defeat, suppress), knowledge of upcoming tactical operations, and input from subordinate
  organizations including the supporting sustainment unit. The supported commander should also ensure a
  sustainment representative participates in targeting boards to provide subject matter expertise. The supporting
  unit commander manages the allocation and distribution of munitions based upon the supported commander's
  sustainment priorities. The supporting commander calculates and recommends composition of combat
  configured loads based upon the controlled supply rate, forecasting, and historical data.
  5-49. Explosive ordnance threats may be present across the competition continuum during the conduct of
  operations both in CONUS and OCONUS. EOD detects, identifies, evaluates, renders safe, disposes of, or
  directs other disposition of explosive ordnance, including weapons of mass destruction. EOD facilitates
  technical collection of captured enemy materiel related to ordnance or weapons systems. Commanders
  manage risk posed by explosive ordnance by synchronizing and integrating EOD during the planning and
  execution of operations to protect life, property, and priority assets.
  5-50. Sustainment planning must be executed in parallel and collaboratively with operational planning to
  ensure complete integration and synchronization. Sustainment commanders and leaders at all levels must
  have a complete understanding of the maneuver unit's concept of operation. This is the only way to
  understand and proactively anticipate the requirements to support current and future operations. It allows
  commanders to use command and control and the operations process to plan, prepare, execute, and assess the