The sustainment warfighting function is integrally linked to operations and essential to maintaining combat power, enabling operational reach, generating freedom of action, and providing Army forces with endurance to fight and win across the breadth and depth of the battlefield.  And yet commanders and planners often fail to integrate the sustainment warfighting function into the MDMP process. 

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Today we will be talking with Captain Jeffrey Horning about Operational Contracting Support.  Jeff is the training developer in the Department of Sustainment and Force Management and former OCSIC chief at CJTF OIR.  

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To start with, today we’ll be talking about sustainment in general, defining the warfighting function and talking about integration and synchronization.

With me today are two individuals who are perfectly suited to debate this topic: 

• Paul Schlimm, the Acting Director for the Department of Sustainment and Force Management at CGSC and