Document Information Download Instructions Appendix D Logistics Support Element Effective force projection logistics require a seamless logistics system operating across the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. The LSE spans the bridge between the strategic and tactical levels, linking the industrial bases with the operational logistics units and through the Logistics Assistance Program into tactical logistics. The LSE is a flexible, deployable, multifunctional organization.
Primary capabilities are technical assistance, supply, and maintenance.
With required augmentation and resources, the LSE can perform any logistical support mission assigned. Unique skills include depot maintenance, oil analysis, calibration of test equipment, ammunition surveillance, release of pre-positioned strategic stocks, materiel fielding, technology insertion, and battle damage assessment. It operates as far forward as feasible, minimizing the evacuation of critical reparables from the theater of operations and reducing the flow of replacement materiel. The logistics assistance representatives and a core of early deployers designated as emergency-essential will augment the LSE as the need arises. LAOs control the logistics assistance representatives and provide technical assistance in peacetime.