Introductory exercises

I. Найдите в тексте, расшифруйте и переведите сокращения:

US; mil; admin; tac; comm; nuc; sys; AFSSC; SEC DEF; DCS/LOG; per*; cen; Ofd C; QMC; AMS; ТС; CE; Cml C; Sig C; С of Ord; wpns; ammo; msls; equip; SECNAV; SG; acft; hel.

II. Найдите в тексте эквиваленты словосочетаний:

приобретать значение; нести основную тяжесть; действовать под руководством центра снабжения вооруженных сил США; ко­ординировать мероприятия по МТО; координировать работу тыло­вых служб видов вооруженных сил; включая контроль за личным составом; автомобили специального назначения; проводить оди­ночную подготовку и подготовку в составе подразделений; осу­ществлять под руководством; обслуживать порты; нести ответ­ственность за снабжение.

III. Подберите к глаголам подходящие по смыслу существительные и переве­дите полученные словосочетания:

Глаголы: assume; bear; perform; coordinate; supply; issue; handle; operate; command; render; accomplish; control.

Существительные: procurement, ammunition; schools; activi­ties; services; burden; supplies; importance; functions; materiel; depots; center; equipment.

IV. Выпишите из текста многокомпонентные термины со словом equipment и переведите их.

Учебный вопрос №4. Зрительно - устный перевод текста

TEXT

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

The term "administrative support," as used herein, includes personnel, logistics, and civil affairs functions. It also refers to the organization, facilities, material resources, system, procedures and control necessary to the performance of these functions. Thus, according to the US Field Manuals administration is the manage­ment and operation of all mil matters not included in tactics and strategy.

Logistics is the branch of admin which embraces the manage­ment and provision of supply, evacuation and hospitalization, transportation and service.

The tac principles of dispersion, duplication of resources, mobi­lity and speed of comm assume vastly increased importance in nuc warfare and under conditions of possible mass destruction. The US Field Manuals state that under these circumstances the seven technical services bear the main burden of operating the Army logistics supply sys. Despite minor organizational différencies, they are marked by the broad degree of similarity. All perform the same functions of requirements, computation, procurement, storage, distribution and maintenance of the items for which they are indivi­dually responsible. They all operate under the direction of the Ar­med Forces Supply Support Center (AFSSC), which coordinates the logistic activities among the services and works under the di­rection of the SEC DEF. The Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (DCS/LOG) has the Army Staff responsibility for supervision of the Army logistics sys (including all controls over funds, materiel, facilities, manpower, pers and training. These responsibilities extend to con of the technical services, which includes the Ordnan­ce Corps (OrdC), the Quartermaster Corps (QMC), the Army Medical Service (AMS), the Transportation Corps (TC), the CE, the Cml C, and the Sig C.

Ordnance Corps

Ord Corps is by far the largest of the technical services. It opera­tes under the Chief of Ordnance (C of Ord). Ordnance Corps supplies the following types of materiel: wpns and ammo (except chemical), special purpose, general purpose and special equipment vehicles, fire con instruments, repair parts and tools. Some of the depots receive, store, issue, rebuild and maintain general supplies while others handle ammo, including special wpns, msls, etc.; and some handle all categories of ordnance supplies. The Corps also operates schools and training centers which conduct individual and unit training.

Quartermaster Corps

The QMC has a supply responsibility associated with the wel­fare of the individual soldier, the clothes he wears and the food he eats. The QMC commands all general depots and is responsible for their management to include programming, budgeting, and funding. The QMC supplies: clothing and equipage, general supplies, furni­ture and office supplies, laundry, drycleaning, kitchen and special purpose equip, special vehicles, subsistence, petroleum, oil, lubri­cants, live animals such as horses, mules and dogs, musical instruments and printing equip. The services the QMC renders troops concern everything mentioned above.

Army Medical Service

The management of the Continental US depot of medical mate­rial is accomplished under the direction of the SECNAV, who is the single manager for medical material. However, the direction of Army medical supply activities in overseas areas remains the res­ponsibility of the Surgeon General (SG). The AMS is the principal and largest consumer of its own supplies and equip which include medical, surgical, veterinary, dental material and the repair parts applicable thereto.

Transportations Corps

The TC is wholly occupied in the field of logistics. In addition to the service it performs in moving men and materiel it also has supply responsibilities for aviation, marine and rail items used by the Army. It supplies: Army acft and allied equip, marine floating equip, mil rail equip, and repair parts for these items. It also operates cargo hel units, ports, water terminals, mil rail­ways, highway transport, highway terminals, the training of transportation specialist pers,- Army acft maintenance pers and other armed forces pers in the use of transportation equip.

Учебный вопрос №5. Выполнение упражнений III, IV

EXERCISES

V.Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What does the term "administrative support" mean?

2. What is administration according to the US Field Manuals?

3. What does the term "logistics" mean?

4. What are the principal functions of the US Army technical services?

5. What do you know about AFSSC?

6. What are the items of supply for which the ОС is responsible?

7. What do you know about the responsibilities of the QMC?

8. What are the responsibilities of the TC?

9. What is the purpose of a map?