Download or read book Army Transportation Operations (FM 4-01) written by Headquarters Department Of The Army and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army Transportation Corps provides an overwhelming capability for Army and joint forces in achieving operational reach, freedom of action and prolonged endurance. Army transportation, combined with strategic enablers, delivers to the Combatant Commander expeditionary capabilities. Introductory figure-1 depicts the strategic to tactical transportation system. It illustrates transportation agencies, organizations, and commands that deploy forces; distribute personnel and materiel; sustain forces for extended durations; and redeploy/retrograde forces and materiel upon mission completion. At the foundation is the Defense Transportation System (DTS) which is that portion of the Nation's transportation infrastructure that supports the DOD transportation needs in peace and war (JP 4-01). When these needs exceed the Service's lift capabilities, commercial industry supports the DOD with contracts and agreements such as the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) and the Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement.