Within the GSB, a group service support company (GSSC) and a battalion headquarters have been established with augmentation from other Army Special Operations
combat service support elements.
Various types of combat brigade are being envisaged, plus combat support and
combat service support elements, as well as maritime and air elements.The emphasis is on assuring deployability, sustainability, interoperability, flexibility, mobility, survivability, and command and control.
The Wish List contained in the draft report also proposed a fundamental re-orientation of the Militia away from a focus on combat arms to
combat service support elements. Therefore, many Reservists wishing to remain in the Militia would have to join a combat service support unit where they could become bath attendants, decontaminators or become responsible for delivering mail.
The responsibility for this planning and setting of conditions falls as much on the infantry company commander as it does with combat support or
combat service support elements typically associated with those activities because of the decentralized nature of the counterinsurgency light and the increased responsibility at the lowest levels of maneuver command.
Each had its own mix of combat, combat support, and
combat service support elements that enabled it to fight and sustain itself.