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  operations. The BSB’s command group consists of the commander, command sergeant major, executive
  officer (XO), and unit ministry team. The BSB staff includes the S-1, S-2, S-3, S-4, support operations,
  Sustainment Automation Support Management Office, and S-6 sections.The six forward support companies
  provide each battalion and squadron commander within the BCT with dedicated logistic assets, less class
  VIII (medical supplies), that meet the supported unit’s requirements. The BSB also has an assigned
  distribution company, a field maintenance company, and a Role2 medical company. The Role 2 medical
  company provides Army Health System(AHS)(health service support and force health protection) and class
  VIII support. The BSB within the SBCT and the ABCT provides the same function and has the samegeneral
  configuration as the BSB within the IBCT, with the most significant differences in the maintenance
  capabilities. (Seechapter 9and ATP4-90 for additional information.)
  SECTION II – STRYKER BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM
  1-28. The SBCT is an expeditionary combined arms force organized around mounted Infantry. SBCT units
  operate effectively in most terrain and weather conditions. The role of the SBCT is to close with the enemy
  by means of fire and movement to destroy or capture enemy forces,or to repel enemy attacks by fire,close
  combat,and counterattack to control land areas,including populations and resources. The SBCT can gain the
  initiative early,seize and retain key terrain—an identifiable characteristic whose seizure or retention affords
  a marked advantage to either combatant (ADP3-90), and conduct massed fire—fire from a number of
  weapons directed at a single point or small area (JP 3-02),to stop the enemy.
  1-29. The SBCT is task organized to meet specific mission requirements. All SBCTs include maneuver,field
  artillery, intelligence, signal, engineer, CBRN, and sustainment capabilities (see figure 1-8 on page 1-12).
  This organizational flexibility enables SBCTs to function across the range of military operations. Unique to
  the SBCT is the weapons troop (with three antitank guided missile (ATGM) platoons and three mobile gun
  system (known as MGS) platoons) that provides the SBCT the ability to defeat light-skinned enemy armor
  or task organize those assets to maneuver battalions based on mission requirements (see paragraph 1-33).
  Higher commanders augment the SBCT for a specific mission with additional capabilities such as aviation,
  Armor,field artillery,air defense,military police,civil affairs,a tactical PSYOP element,engineers,CBRN,
  and information systems assets.