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be issued.

8-4. Army Direct Ordering (ADO)

The Army Direct Ordering Program is a USARCENT program that was established to provide
sustainment of clothing bag items and OCIE to deployed military personnel in support of a
contingency mission. Individual Air Force/Navy personnel (augmentees) assigned to or
embedded within Army units that are performing tactical mission in support of a contingency
mission are authorize to use ADO for sustainment of Army clothing only through the Army unit
they are assigned or embedded within. The unit may set-up an account through Operational
Sustainment (first TSC). Funds will be activate within 30 days for OCIE and 45 days for clothing
bag items. It is strongly advisable to wait until "Boots on Ground" and are 100% certain of unit's
mailing address so items are not shipped to the wrong address or lost during shipment. Soldiers
(Enlisted and Officers) may place order by size via AKO link thru DLA E-Commerce to Kentucky
Logistics Operations Center (KYLOC) web site (https://army.kyloc.com). If internet access is
limited, unit designee can order items in the Soldier's name. However, if the OCIE item was not
issued and not listed on the Soldier's clothing records, then the Soldier is not authorized the
item and the unit designee cannot approve the item for ordering

8–5. Individual Protective Equipment

a. Individual Protective Equipment (IPE) refers to a specific compilation of protective clothing,
personal decontamination and detection equipment used for Chemical Biological Radiological
Nuclear (CBRN) protection. Service members review the most update Standardized Individual

b. Soldiers Basic Load (SISBL) and Common Table of Allowance for updates IPE
Requirements is a To-Accompany-Troops requirement for all deploying Soldiers and DoD
civilians. All deploying personnel will have these items in their possession prior to departure
from mobilization site or home station.

c. IPE Issuing Units are to requisition CBRN IPE in accordance with instructions contained in
the Deployment Order or as prescribed by standard pre-deployment procedures at the Conus
Replacement Center (CRC).
(1) All deploying personnel will draw IPE in accordance with the basis of issue prescribed in
the Deployment Order or as specified in Common Table of Allowance (CTA) 50-900 and CTA
50-970.
(2) Account for IPE on individual hand receipt. It is the hand receipt holders' responsibility to
account for the property until properly relieved. Turn-in of IPE will be conducted in accordance
with theater specific guidance or as instructed by ICEMP upon redeployment to demobilization
site or home station.

d. Required IPE for deploying personnel is the commander's responsibility to ensure all
soldiers deploy with these items. All personnel are required to deploy with their issued OCIE/IPE
as to Accompany Troops (TAT) and not leave it in CONUS.

8-6. Equipment Accountability

a. Upon notification of deployment, Soldiers will bring a weapon from their parent unit based on
mission requirements. Supporting command/agency that does not have organic weapons will
coordinate with their supporting installation for the issue of a weapon to the Soldier before
departure from home station. For Non-unit Related Personnel (NRP) without a parent unit,

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