Quartermaster Force Provider Company (FM 4-20.07 / FM 42-424)

Field manual (FM) 4-20.07, “Quartermaster Force Provider Company,” provides insight, general data and operational information for the commanders, supervisors, and personnel assigned or attached to a Quartermaster (QM) Force Provider Company. This manual also serves as a guide for commanders, supervisors, and other personnel concerned with Force Provider operations in general. It addresses the key aspects of performing the company’s critical wartime mission to “Provide Force Provider Support” and accomplishing the unit’s mission essential task list (METL). The METL consists of tasks categorized into the following missions: Deploy unit, Establish unit area, Defend assigned area, Conduct Force Provider operations, Relocate unit, Redeploy unit. Commanders must bear in mind the stressful effects of combat as they plan and conduct operations. The pressures that battlefield chaos and destruction place on Soldiers have always been great. Unit discipline, realistic field training, deliberately fostered unit cohesion, and solid bonding between leaders and subordinates can reduce the effects of this stress in part, but nothing can eliminate it. The commander who understands this and protects his Soldiers through strong, positive, and caring leadership, proper mental, physical and training preparation, and simple decisive plans will win (FM 3-0). The purpose of the Force Provider program is to improve the quality of life for deployed Soldiers by reducing the stressors of combat. Under force health protection (FHP), combat and operational stress control (COSC) training is provided to assist Soldiers in preventing combat and operational stress reactions (COSRs) and other stress related illnesses. The Force Provider system also enables the reduction of stress. During Operation…