orders, about 90 days before IOC.
USAREUR published its operation order three weeks later, directing the 21st Theater Sustainment
Command (TSC) to provide overall mission command for passenger
transit center operations. The order
also directed contracting and engineering activities to establish the
passenger terminal, customs facilities, and baggage storage areas on the
temporary forward operating site.
Once the COA was established and
the infrastructure designed to facilitate the logical flow of transit center
operations, manning and resourcing
capabilities became the key concerns
for the success of the operation.
Human Resources
All operational planners should
apply the global force management
(GFM) process. Understanding the
flow and timeline of the GFM and
Secretary of Defense Orders Book
process is crucial for all planners in
an operational headquarters.
For operations at MK, USAREUR’s
available force pool did not have all the
capabilities needed to meet the mission
requirements identified during mission
analysis and COA development. For
example, all movement control teams
assigned to USAREUR were either
deployed or in the Army Force Generation reset phase.
In conjunction with the USAREUR
G–3/5 GFM branch, planners created requests for forces (RFFs) to meet
movement control, law enforcement,
customs, human resources, postal, facility engineering, religious support,
and firefighting requirements. Before
receiving the joint staff and EUCOM
execute orders to conduct the passenger transit center mission, USAREUR provided EUCOM with the
draft RFF.
For MK, the shortfalls identified
and subm