MPF-06

The MPF Deployment

Concept
LT William Czopek, USN
Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Pacific
USMC Expeditionary Logistics Branch, N571
DSN 577-2606, Commercial (619) 437-2606
william.czopek@navy.mil
 Overview
• Identify key MPF planning documents
• Match planning MEF’s and MPSRON’s
• Describe the two MPF Force Modules
• Identify MPF Movement Groups and
Deployment Echelons
• Identify types of Deployment Plans
• Define Remain Behind Equipment
(RBE)
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Lesson Purpose
• To provide the student
with information about
the key planning
documents, movement
groups, movement
control organizations,
deployment echelons,
deployment plans,
Force Modules (FMs)
and their respective
shipping requirements.
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 References
• MCWP 3-32/NWP 3-02.3, Maritime
Prepositioning Force (MPF) Operations

• MCBul 3501, Maritime Prepositioning Force

(MPF) Marine Air-Ground Task Force
(MAGTF) Force List (F/L)

• NAVMC 2907, Maritime Prepositioning Force

(MPF) Prepositioning Objectives
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 Deployment Overview

PLANNING
MARSHALING ORIGINS
PORTS -
MOVEMENT AIR & SEA
ARRIVAL & ASSEMBLY
MAGTF TO TAA

RECONSTITUTION
 Critical Deployment
Nodes
Origins POE'S POD'S UAA'S

Bases Seaport of Seaport of Unit

Embarkation Debarkation Assembly
Stations (SPOE) (SPOD) Areas

Camps Aerial Port of Aerial Port of

Embarkation Debarkation
Posts (APOE) (APOD)

Reserve
Centers
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ORIGIN UAA UAA

A SPOE AAA
P
O SPOD APOD
E

ORIGIN MPF-07 7
 Critical Deployment
Functions
ORIGINS POE'S POD'S UAA'S

Unit Stage & RSO&I Container &

Marshaling Marshaling Break Bulk
Create Operations
Report Create Chalks Accountability
Departure Lists Receive
Sustainment
Control Create Control Convoys
Convoys Manifests Allocate
Transportation
Merge Unit Report Reconcile Assets
Databases Departure Manifests
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 Real World Deployments
Desert Shield Fiery
•War
Desert Storm Vigil
•Famine
•Drought
•Typhoon
•Volcano
•Earthquake

Restore Hope Water Pitcher Tent Maker

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 Planning Documents
• Force List (F/L) and Force Modules (FM):
– MCBUL 3501
– Table of Organization (T/O) – 1001 Series
– Table of Allowance (T/A) – T/A-55 (NSE)
– Table of Allowance (T/A) – P25 (NMCB)

• Prepo Obj (PO) – NAVMC 2907

– MPF Table of Equipment (T/E)
– Equipment List (E/L) – 9910 Series
– www.mcpic.bic.usmc.mil website
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 Interoperability
• Any MPF MAGTF can fall in on any MPSRON
suite of MPE/S
• Each MEF maintains ALL THREE MPSRON’s
updated load plans
• MPS-1 and 2 are the baseline MPSRONs
• MPS-3 has additional space for containers
• Only MEF or MAGTF Commanders can
CHANGE MPE/S allocations

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 Interoperability

MPS-2 MPS-2

MPS-3 NSE MPS-1 MPS-3 MEF MPS-1

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 Force List (F/L) and Table
of Organization (T/O)
• MCBul 3501 (MPF F/L identifies the
MPF Force Modules (FM’s)
• MCBul 3501 is a dynamic document
• Each FM identifies a NOTIONAL
MAGTF Force List (F/L)
• MPF MAGTF Force List (F/L) is
supported by 1001 Series T/O
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 Current Force Modules
• MPF MEB

• MPF MEU

• Previous editions of MCBul 3501

identified multiple FM’s (MPF LIC
MEB’s)
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 MPF MEB
• 5 or 6 MPS
• Approximately 332 Aircraft Sorties
• Personnel
• CE 774
• GCE 6,326
• ACE 5,598
• LCE 2,123
• NMCB 927
• Total 15,748
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 MPF MEU
• 1 MPS (Normally Flagship)
• Approximately 22 Aircraft Sorties
• Personnel
• CE 199
• GCE 1,289
• ACE 471
• LCE 279
• Total 2,238
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 Movement Groups
• Air Movement Group
– Fly In Echelon (FIE)
• SLRP
• Advance Party
• Sea Movement Group
– MPSRON • Main Body
– Offload Preparation – Flight Ferry
Party (OPP)
– Follow On Sustainment
(FOS)
– T-AH and T-AVB
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 Fly In Echelon (FIE)
Planning Factors
MDSS II Database Query SHOULD be:
FIE = MPF T/E – E/L
Element C-5 C-17 CRAF Total
CE 2 40 2 44
GCE 4 54 13 71
ACE 2 87 15 104
CSSE 2 63 7 72
NMCB 1 5 2 8
NSE 3 14 6 23
ADVON 0 5 2 7
Total 14 271 47 332
 APOE FLY IN ECHELON &
FLIGHT FERRY
TAA

O W ON APOD
APOE FO L L
I N MENT
SUSTA SPOD
SPOE
AAA
OPP
MPSRON TAA
AIR MOVEMENT GROUP
SPOE
SEA MOVEMENT GROUP
 THE FIVE PHASES OF MPF OPERATIONS
FIRST FIRST MAIN LAST LAST MAIN
PLANE BODY PLANE TROOP BODY PLANE AIR
MPF INITIATING DEPARTS ARRIVES AT APOE ARRIVES MOVEMENT
DIRECTIVE SLRP ADVANCE MAIN FLIGHT
PARTY
GROUP
(O-8) BODY FERRY
(O-4)

PLANNING
MPF MAGTF
MARSHALING COMBAT
READY

MOVEMENT
MAIN
PLANNING
WARNING ARRIVAL AND CONFERENCE
ORDER
ASSEMBLY
ALERT DEPLOYMENT
ORDER ORDER RECONSTITUTION

N-DAY C-DAY O-DAY MAGTF OPERATIONS

SEA EXECUTE
O+10
RDD T-AVB AND T-AH
MOVEMENT OPP ORDER ARRIVES (C+30)
BOARDS FIRST MPS
GROUP MPSRON MPSRON ARRIVES LAST MPS
FOLLOW ON
MOVES (O-4) (O-1) ARRIVES
SUSTAINMENT (FOS)
 Follow On Sustainment
(FOS)
• Equipment and supplies in excess of
MPE/S and the FIE
– Examples:
• Aviation Support Ship (T-AVB)
• Hospital Ship (T-AH)
• Food supplements (fresh fruit and vegetables)

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 MPF Deployment Plans
• MPF Deployment Letter Of Instruction
(LOI)

• Deployment Support Plans

• Arrival and Assembly (AA) Plan

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 MPF Deployment LOI
• MAGTF commander’s concept and
priorities for deployment
• Composition and sequence of the FIE
• Organization of the Movement Groups
• Assignment of tasks and responsibilities
• Covers both Marshalling and Movement

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 Deployment Support
Plans
• Large operational deployments require
critical assistance from the Supporting
Establishment (SE)
• Deployment Support Plans must be
coordinated with the Host Base or Air
Station

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 Arrival and Assembly
(AA) Plan
• A rational basis to DEPLOY and
EMPLOY MPF MAGTF

• Deployment and AA Plans are focused

on MAGTFs concept of operations

DEPLOYMENT ARRIVAL AND

EMPLOYMENT
ASSEMBLY

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 Movement Control
Organizations
• Force Movement Control Center (FMCC)
• Logistics and Movement Coordination Center
(LMCC)
• Airfield Coordination Officer (ACO)
• Unit Movement Coordination Center (UMCC)
• Departure Airfield Control Group (DACG)
• Enroute Movement Coordination Center
(EMCC)
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 Movement Control
Organizations
• Self-Deploying Aircraft Control Center
(SDACC)
• Base Operations Support Group (BOSG)
• AMC Tanker Airlift Control Element (TALCE)
• Station Operations Support Group (SOSG)
• Embarkation Control Officer (ECO)

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 Remain Behind
Equipment (RBE)
• Equipment that Remains Behind when
a MAGTF deploys as part of a MPF
Operation
• Special management considerations
are provided in MCO P4801.1, War
Material Manual

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 Summary
• Reviewed basic MPF planning documents

• MPF Terminology – FMs, FIE, FOS,

Movement Groups, Deployment Echelons,
Interoperability

• MPF Deployment Plans and Movement

Control Organizations

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Questions