METHODOLOGY FOR ECHELONING ITEMS OF CLOTHING AND FOOD SUPPLY AS PART OF THE COMBAT EQUIPMENT COMPLEX OF A SERVICEMAN OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE

The article deals with the methodology of echeloning of items of material and food supply as part of the combat equipment complex of a serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine. The methodology is presented in the form of an algorithm of actions of a decision-maker with regard to the items of cloth-ing and food support required for the performance of the assigned task and their distribution by eche-lons. The list of material property of the combat kits of the NGU servicemen contains a sufficiently large number of items provided for by the supply standards. The question of what kind of items of material support should be carried and how they should be rationally distributed between echelons when per-forming specific service-combat (combat) tasks currently has no clear answer, which gives rise to some uncertainty in practice, ambiguity of decisions on the list of necessary items of this nomencla-ture, organization of their transportation (transfer) and rational use. Such uncertainty can lead to an incomplete provision of military personnel with appropriate means or, on the contrary, to the for-mation of an excess of items. In any case, the discrepancy between the items of clothing and food sup-ply as part of the combat equipment complex and the real needs leads to a decrease in the effective-ness of the actions of servicemen and units in which they perform their tasks. Therefore, the develop-ment of a methodology for echeloning items of clothing and food support as part of the combat equipment complex of the NGU serviceman in the interests of ensuring the effectiveness of actions of servicemen (units) in performing assigned tasks is an urgent task. When developing this methodology, a number of results and theoretical positions presented by the authors in previous works on this topic were taken into account, according to the references in the list of references. The formalized statement of the problem of echeloning the combat equipment complex (by elements of clothing and food supply) of a serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine, depend-ing on the nature of service-combat (combat) tasks, was performed using a theoretical-multiple ap-proach. Accordingly, the developed methodology provides for an orderly sequence of actions on sets of items, taking into account the factors and limitations that affect the needs of a serviceman to per-form specific assigned tasks and their distribution by echelons for the purpose of effective use, creat-ing prerequisites for the successful completion of assigned tasks according to their factors of influ-ence.