Book/Printed Material Quality of life at contingency bases : managing sustainment community support requirements
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Title
- Quality of life at contingency bases : managing sustainment community support requirements
Summary
- Among Army logisticians, one of the key insights from military operations since September 11, 2001, is that quality-of-life (QoL) goods and services for soldiers operating from contingency bases represent a key component in terms of morale and both physical and emotional well-being but also a substantial logistics burden, especially in austere theaters, such as Afghanistan, where roads are few and the terrain is difficult. The questions, therefore, are "how much is enough?" and "what policy options would allow the Army deputy chief of staff for logistics to prioritize QoL support with the other tasks facing the Army sustainment community-delivering enough QoL to contingency bases to keep soldiers in the fight while also avoiding unsustainable logistics burdens?" The authors find that policies controlling food, water, and fuel consumption are key to maintaining QoL under logistical constraints.
Names
- Peters, John E., author
- Arroyo Center. Forces and Logistics Program
- Rand Corporation
- United States. Army
Created / Published
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2018]
Contents
- Introduction -- What Is Quality of Life? -- Opportunities for Improvement -- Recommendations to Improve the Efficiency of Quality-of-Life Support -- Appendix A: Base-Camp Case Studies from Southern Afghanistan -- Appendix B: What Crowdsourcing Reveals About Quality-of-Life Demands at Contingency Bases -- C: Restorative Effects of Quality-of-Life Goods and Services -- Appendix D: Shelter Options.
Headings
- - United States.--Army--Barracks and quarters
- - Military bases, American
- - Quality of life
- - Logistics--Management
Notes
- - "RAND Arroyo Center."
- - "Prepared for the United States Army."
- - "This research was conducted within the RAND Arroyo Center's Forces and Logistics Program"--Preface (page iii).
- - Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
- - Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-103).
- - Print resource.
- - Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Medium
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 103 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number/Physical Location
- MLCM 2023/40944 (U)
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2024738981
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- This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users
Access Advisory
- Unrestricted online access
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