Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement, supply, and maintenance of military forces. In its most comprehensive sense, it is those aspects or military operations that deal with:Design, development, acquisition, storage, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel.
Transport of personnel.
Acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation and disposition of facilities.
Acquisition or furnishing of services.
Medical and health service support.
U.S. Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 8 and Navy personnel from Beach Master Unit 2 off-load ISO containers from a Landing Craft Utility with a Logistics Vehicle System Replacement
Loading artillery shells (2016)
Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers. Logistics management is a component that holds the supply chain together. The resources managed in logistics may include tangible goods such as materials, equipment, and supplies, as well as food and other consumable items.
A warehouse in South Jersey, a U.S. East Coast epicenter for logistics and warehouse construction outside Philadelphia, where trucks deliver slabs of granite
A warehouse implementing a pallet rack storage system
A logistics specialist inventories supplies in a storeroom aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Persian Gulf in October 2011
Loading of a thermal oxidizer in preparation for its transport to a manufacturing plant
