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  (cid:122) Medical logistics. (See ATP 4-02.1.)
  PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINMENT
  9-7. The principles of sustainment are essential to maintaining combat power, enabling strategic and
  operational reach, and providing Army forces with endurance. While these principles are independent, they
  are also interrelated. The BCT commander and staff use the eight guiding principles of sustainment
  (integration, anticipation, responsiveness, simplicity, economy, survivability, continuity, and improvisation)
  to shape the sustainment support to ensure freedom of action and prolongedendurance throughout the BCT.
  The principles of sustainment and the principles of logistics are the same. (See ADP 4-0 and FM 4-0 for
  additional information.)
  PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  9-8. Similar to sustainment, there are six financial management principles: stewardship, synchronization,
  anticipation, improvisation, simplicity, and consistency. These principles are critical to maintaining combat
  power, operational reach throughout the levels of war, and the endurance of the BCT. Although independent
  of one another, these principles must be integrated in the planning and execution of financial management
  operations at echelons above and below the BCT. This integration facilitates the optimal allocation of
  financial resources to accomplish the BCT’s mission. (See FM 1-06 for additional information.)
  PRINCIPLES OF PERSONNEL SERVICES
  9-9. The principles of personnel services guide the functions for maintaining Soldier and Family support,
  establishing morale and welfare, funding the force, and providing personallegal services to personnel. They
  are in addition to the principles of sustainment and complement logistics by planning for and coordinating
  efforts that provide and sustain personnel. The following principles are unique to personnel services—
  synchronization, timeliness, accuracy, and consistency—and contribute to current and future BCT
  operations. These principles ensure personnel services effectively align with military actions in time, space,
  purpose and resources as well as ensuring decision makers within the BCT have access to relevant personnel
  services information and analysis. The stewardship of limited resources and the accuracy of information have
  an impact on the BCT commander and staff along with other decision makers within and above the BCT.
  Consistency ensures uniform and compatible guidance and personnel services to forces across all levels of
  operations. (See ADP 4-0 and FM 1-0 for additional information.)
  PRINCIPLES OF THE ARMY HEALTH SYSTEM
  9-10. The six principles of the Army Health System (AHS) are the foundation—enduring fundamentals—
  upon which the delivery of health care in a field environment is founded. Conformity, proximity, flexibility,
  mobility, continuity, and control are the principles that guide medical planning in developing health service
  support (see ATP 4-02.3) and force health protection (see ATP 4-02.8) missions, which are effective,
  efficient, flexible, and executable. These missions support the BCT commander’s scheme of maneuver while
  retaining a focus on the delivery of health care. The AHS principles apply across all medical functions. They
  are synchronized through medical command and control and close coordination of all deployed medical
  assets through operational and medical channels.
  Note.The AHS includes both health service support and force health protection. The health service
  support mission is part of the sustainment warfighting function. The force health protection
  mission falls under the protection warfighting function. (See FM 4-02for additional information
  on the principles of the AHS.)
  SECTION II – SUSTAINING THE BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM
  9-11. Sustainment based on an integrated process, (people, systems, materiel, health services, and other
  support) links sustainment to operations. Sustaining the BCT in austere environments, often at the ends of