Large‐Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) 3 Practice Test

In a Brigade Combat Team, sustainment hinges on the units that are permanently part of the BCT’s own logistics backbone. The Forward Support Company and the Brigade Support Battalion’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company are the elements that stay with the BCT to provide ongoing, organic logistics and distribution capability. They carry the BCT’s supply, maintenance, transport, and field support assets so the formation can move and fight without waiting for higher echelons. Other options—like a separate Alpha distribution company or specialized water or composite supply units—are not universally embedded in every BCT as its permanent organic sustainment elements. Therefore, the combination of the Forward Support Company and the Brigade Support Battalion’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company best represents the units that inherently accompany and sustain the BCT.