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Development

• The Logistics Units of Employment (LUEs) represent the basic building blocks of logistics capacity for the Marine Corps — the smallest set of personnel and equipment needed to accomplish essential tasks.
• The LUEs can be applied across the functional areas of Marine Corps logistics, and can be used as a basic, extendable framework to quantify logistics capacity across the Marine Logistics Group.
• Because a given logistic unit's table of equipment and table of organization can be expressed as LUEs, the LUEs provide a means to gauge and compare the capacity of different units.

Application

• The hierarchy of the framework can be applied for different purposes and at different organizational levels.
• It is also possible to identify the LUEs associated with different missions as an extension of the basic LUE framework.
• Identifying the LUEs needed for a mission with the LUEs available from within an organization provides information on how many missions of what type the organization might support.

The Marine Corps' Marine Logistics Groups (MLGs) currently do not have a standardized method for determining or communicating logistics capacity. Although Marine logisticians task-organize personnel and equipment to the demands of the mission, this lack of standardized logistics capacity assessment can lead to uncertainty at the operational and tactical level. It is difficult to convey the logistics capacity that may or may not be within a unit. It also complicates readiness and force management determinations at higher levels within the organization.

This report supports Marine Corps efforts to better determine logistics capacity by developing a capacity assessment framework for logistics. Basic building blocks for personnel and major equipment across the different functional areas of Marine Corps logistics, called Logistics Units of Employment (LUEs), were developed. Analysis began with the assessment of mission-essential tasks for the MLG and construction of LUEs for these tasks.

The LUEs offer a potential way to standardize logistics capacity measures across different logistics organizations. Comparing the LUEs that different units should be able to support provides a first-order approximation of logistics capacities across organizational structures.

These LUEs constitute the basic elements of a logistics capacity framework. This framework can be used to estimate the logistics capacity of a unit by translating the personnel and major equipment for a logistics unit into a number of LUEs. This LUE framework can also be used as a starting point for logistics support to multiple missions.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Marine Logistics Group

• Chapter Three

  Determining Logistics Capacity Metrics

• Chapter Four

  Associating Mission-Essential Tasks to Logistics Units of Employment

• Chapter Five

  Logistics Units of Employment Framework

• Chapter Six

  Conclusions and Recommendations

• Appendix A

  Logistics Units of Employment

• Appendix B

  CLB-11 Tables of Organization and Equipment

• Appendix C

  LUEs in Support of Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief