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The service support order (SSORD) provides the plan for service support of operations, including administrative
movements. It provides information to supported elements and serves as a basis for the orders of supporting commanders to their units.
SSORDs may be issued either with an OPORD, or separately when the commander expects the CSS situation to apply to more than
one operation plan or order. At division and corps levels of command, the SSORD may replace an OPORD's service support annex.
If that happens, the staff refers to the existence of the SSORD in paragraph 4 of the OPORD. Staffs at brigade and lower levels of command
may cover all necessary information in paragraph 4 of the OPORD without annexes or a separate SSORD. The SSORD follows the same
format as the OPORD. It is usually in writing and may include overlays, traces, and other annexes. The G4 (S4) has primary coordinating
responsibility for preparing, publishing, and distributing the SSORD. Other staff officers, both coordinating and special, provide those parts
of the order concerning their responsibilities. Their input may be a single sentence or a complete annex.
movements. It provides information to supported elements and serves as a basis for the orders of supporting commanders to their units.
SSORDs may be issued either with an OPORD, or separately when the commander expects the CSS situation to apply to more than
one operation plan or order. At division and corps levels of command, the SSORD may replace an OPORD's service support annex.
If that happens, the staff refers to the existence of the SSORD in paragraph 4 of the OPORD. Staffs at brigade and lower levels of command
may cover all necessary information in paragraph 4 of the OPORD without annexes or a separate SSORD. The SSORD follows the same
format as the OPORD. It is usually in writing and may include overlays, traces, and other annexes. The G4 (S4) has primary coordinating
responsibility for preparing, publishing, and distributing the SSORD. Other staff officers, both coordinating and special, provide those parts
of the order concerning their responsibilities. Their input may be a single sentence or a complete annex.
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SSORD Example FM 101-5
SSORD Example FM 101-5
| _____________ (Classification) Place the required classification at the top and bottom of every page of the SSPLAN or SSORD. (Change from oral orders, if any) This annotated order follows the same format as the OPORD/OPLAN. Only specific items that pertain to the SSPLAN are discussed. Copy__ of __copies Issuing headquarters Place of issue Date-time group of signature Message reference number SERVICE SUPPORT PLAN (ORDER) _____________ (code name) (Number) Related operation plan (order) ____________(when applicable). (Number) References: Time Zone Used Throughout the Plan (Order): Task Organization: List the number and coordinates of service support units here or in a trace or overlay. If you do not list units here, omit this heading. 1. SITUATION. State the general service support factors affecting support of the operation. Include any information essential to understanding the current situation as it influences combat service support. This comes from paragraph 1 of the related OPLAN or OPORD on the general overall situation. a. Enemy forces. Refer to an OPORD or to the intelligence annex to an OPORD if it has been published or is to be published. List information about the composition, disposition, location, movements, estimated strengths, and identifications of enemy forces. List enemy capabilities that could influence the CSS mission. b. Friendly forces. List pertinent information on own forces (other than those a referenced OPORD covers or that subsequent paragraphs of this order include) that might directly influence the CSS mission. c. Attachments and detachments. See OPLAN/OPORD. d. Assumptions (OPLAN only). Same as OPLAN/OPORD. 2. MISSION. State the CSS tasks and their purpose. 3. EXECUTION NOTE: There is no commander's intent statement for a SSPLAN or SSORD. Concept of support operations. Outline the general service support plan for CSS and any instructions that succeeding paragraphs do not suitably cover (for example, location of the division support area, location of coordinating agencies, general instructions for movement of bases). 4. SERVICE SUPPORT a. Materiel and services. |
SSPLAN or SSORD NO _______ (1) Supply. This paragraph contains a subparagraph for each class of supply, maps, water, special supplies, excess material, salvage material, and captured enemy material. Each subparagraph contains the location of the installations that handle supplies and material for supported units, the time of opening or closing, operating units, supported units, levels of supply, methods and schedules of distribution, and other pertinent instructions or information supported units will need. Instructions or information for two or more classes of supply may be listed under one paragraph. However, do not sacrifice clarity. For Class V, include the designation and location of the approving agency for ammunition requisitions and the controlled supply rate, as appropriate. (2) Transportation. Include location of terminals and installations (rail stations, airfields, and ports); operating units; schedules (march tables, timetables, and rail movement tables); area responsibilities of the transportation movement officers and highway regulating teams; traffic control and regulation measures, such as regulations, restrictions, allocation priorities, and regulating and control points; and designation of the main supply routes. Modes covered in this subparagraph may include ocean, inland waterway, coastal, highway, air, and rail. This paragraph will include procedures to request transportation support. (3) Services. Include information or instructions for support units that prescribe the type of service available, designation and location of the unit or installation providing the service, assignments to support units, and schedules for service, if applicable. Include specific missions for service units supporting operations. For example, include priority of effort of general engineering missions. Under each subparagraph, list pertinent service installations stating location, operating units, and assignments to supported units. In addition, assign any special missions that are not covered in other orders to service units in these subparagraphs. (a) Field services. Include food preparation, water purification, aerial delivery, showers, laundry, clothing repair, light textile repair, and mortuary affairs. For mortuary affairs, establish location of collection points, evacuation procedures, and handling of personal effects. Include procedures for emergency and temporary burials, mass burials, or contaminated remains.
materiel and waste disposal, and water supply services. Establish base camps to house soldiers. (c) Other. Include any unique service support requirements for explosive ordnance disposal and contingency contracting. (4) Labor. Include policies, with any restrictions, on using civilian and enemy prisoners of war and civilian internees or detainees in labor units; allocation and priorities of available labor; and designation and location of labor units available. (5) Maintenance. Include priority of maintenance, location of facilities, collection points, maintenance time lines, and evacuation procedures. b. Medical evacuation and hospitalization. Include information and instructions for supported units prescribing the plan for collection, triage, medical evacuation, and medical treatment of sick, injured, and wounded soldiers including enemy prisoners of war. List procedures to be used for chemical casualties. |
SSPLAN or SSORD NO _______ (1) Evacuation. Include ambulance exchange points (AXPs) and establishment of ambulance shuttles, routes, means, and schedules of evacuation; evacuation and en route treatment policies for the use of nonmedical transportation assets; specific policies for evacuation by air or ground and evacuation of NBC-contaminated patients; information about MEDEVAC request procedures and channels; and evacuation or holding policies. (2) Treatment. Include a list of all appropriate treatment facilities (for example, dispensaries, aid stations, clearing stations, hospitals) belonging to or supporting organizations; the location and operational time of supporting hospitals, medical regulating matters, and evacuation policy; and the establishment of patient decontamination facilities. (3) Other services. Include pertinent information on any other combat health support matters (for example, dental, preventive medicine, health service logistics, combat stress control, veterinary). Include unit locations, support information, policies, requirements for nonmedical augmentation to accomplish patient decontamination, support requirements for providing nonmedical guards for enemy prisoners of war evacuated within CHS channels, and any other information, as appropriate. c. Personnel. (1) Personnel matters. Include all necessary information and instructions on personnel matters, including foreign civilian labor used in direct military support functions. List information under each of the following subparagraphs, when applicable. • Installations. Location and time of opening or closing. • Operating units. The units or areas served. • Rotation criteria. • Unit responsibility for movement or administration of personnel. • Requisitions or plans concerning personnel activities. • Necessary references to previous order, instructions, or SOP. (2) Maintenance of unit strength. (a) Strength reports. Include instructions for submission of strength reports. Include requirements for routine reports and special reports following an attack using weapons of mass destruction, and after a natural disaster or serious incident. (b) Replacements. Include a statement establishing the validity of existing personnel requisitions, instructions for submission of requisitions, instructions for processing and moving replacements, the location of replacement units and the units each will support, and the type and location of unit replacements under control of the issuing headquarters. (3) Casualty operations. Include instructions for recording, reporting, verifying, and processing casualty information. |
SSPLAN or SSORD NO _______ (4) Personnel management. (a) Military personnel. Include information or instructions concerning classification, assignment, promotion, transfer, reclassification, reduction, elimination, retirement, separation, training, rotation, and personnel economies. (b) Civilian personnel. List sources of civilian labor; locations of civilian personnel offices or other labor administration centers and labor pools; procurement policies and procedures; restrictions on use of civilian labor; administrative and control procedures; pay schedules, allowances, and CSS to be provided; and responsibilities of subordinate commanders for administration. Provide specific pay scales and other conditions of employment in an annex. (c) Enemy prisoners of war and civilian internees or detainees. Include instructions concerning collecting, safeguarding, processing, evacuating, using, treating, and disciplining enemy prisoners of war and civilian internees or detainees and all other personnel arrested or captured but not immediately identifiable as enemy prisoners of war. Include the location of EPW and civilian internee or detainee facilities. (5) Personnel service support (PSS). Include information or instructions concerning leaves; rest and recreation facilities, to include criteria and unit quotas; decorations and awards; postal and finance services; chaplain activities and religious coverage; field services; morale support activities; post exchange; and legal assistance. (6) Discipline, law and order. Include information and instructions concerning troop conduct and appearance; the control and disposition of stragglers, locations of straggler-collecting points, and special instructions for straggler-control augmentation; instructions for administering military justice; and any information or instructions concerning relations between military and civilian personnel, such as fraternization, black marketing, selling of government property, and respect for local laws. (7) Headquarters management. Include instructions concerning movement, internal arrangement, organization, operation of headquarters, and allocation of shelter in the headquarters area for troops and headquarters personnel. (8) Miscellaneous. Include any personnel administrative matters not specifically assigned to another coordinating staff section or included in the preceding subparagraphs. d. Foreign nation support and host nation support. This paragraph covers the concept for foreign nation support and host nation support during the operation. It includes plans for both forecasted and not forecasted support. e. Coordinating instructions. This is the same as in the OPLAN/OPORD. (1) Boundaries. Location of the rear boundary and any other boundary needed for CSS purposes. (2) Protection. Measures established for the protection of CSS units or installations. Specify which tactical units are to provide protection, which CSS units or installations will receive protection, and any conditioning factors to that protection. This paragraph provides information for CSS units; it is not an order to tactical units. Include pertinent instructions from the rear operations plan or reference to an annex or both. (3) Special reports. Include those reports requiring special emphasis that are required but are not included in previous paragraphs or reports. |
SSPLAN or SSORD NO _______ (4) Other CSS matters. Include information or instructions not included in any previous paragraph. (5) Execution. Include the time or the conditions under which the plan is to be placed in effect. 5. COMMAND AND SIGNAL a. Command. b. Signal. Refer to appropriate OPLAN/OPORD. When not included in the basic OPLAN/OPORD, include the headquarters location and movements, liaison arrangements, recognition and identification instructions, and general rules concerning the use of communications and other electronic equipment, if necessary. Use an annex when appropriate. ACKNOWLEDGE: NAME (Commander's last name) RANK (Commander's rank) Same as OPLAN/OPORD. OFFICIAL: (Authentication) Same as OPLAN/OPORD. ANNEXES: Same as OPLAN/OPORD. DISTRIBUTION: _____________ (Classification) |
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