text: Sustainment
  Note. Planners need to coordinate for TCF maintenance support to accompany the unit when
  assigned to a MEB. The MEB does not have maintainers with the proper skills or tools to support
  main weapons systems (tanks, armored personnel carriers, or Stryker vehicles).
  Transportation
  5-16. The MEB HSC and signal company have 100 percent mobility of their TOE equipment and supplies
  in a single lift using organic equipment. If MEB assigned and attached units require additional lift support,
  they will request it through channels to the MEB S-4.
  Supply
  5-17. Supply is the process by which required materials and equipment are made available to supported units
  to help them accomplish the mission. This process includes all classes of supply, to include Class VIII. MEB
  resupply to subordinate elements is coordinated through the S-4 sections. Supplies are provided through the
  distribution processes established below.
  Field Services
  5-18. Field services maintain combat strength of the force by providing for its basic needs and promoting its
  health, welfare, morale, and endurance. Field services provide life support functions. ATP 4-42 has additional
  information on field services. Field services include—
  * Shower and laundry. There is no organic laundry or shower capability in the MEB. Support must
  be coordinated by S-4 with the sustainment brigade in general support of the MEB.
  * Field feeding. With the exception of a TCF, units typically assigned to a MEB do not have organic
  field feeding support. The MEB S-4 will need to coordinate field feeding support and Class I
  supplies with the supporting sustainment command.
  * Water. The MEB has limited organic capability to produce, store, and transport purified water to
  meet the MEB support requirements. The MEB S-4 will coordinate with the support sustainment
  brigade or command for water support requirements.
  * Mortuary affairs. The MEB is dependent on its supported command for processing and
  evacuating remains. Internal to the MEB, handling teams are predesignated at the unit level. It is
  the unit responsibility to evacuate remains to the mortuary affairs collection point.
  * Medical. The MEB is dependent on the Medical Brigade (Support) for all AHS support above
  Role 1 medical treatment.
  Distribution
  5-19. Distribution is the primary means to prolong endurance. Distribution is the operational process of
  synchronizing all elements of the logistic system to deliver the “right things” to the “right place” at the “right
  time” to support the geographic combatant commander (JP 4-0). The MEB is typically co-located with the
  division sustainment brigade or division sustainment support battalion. The MEB S-4 will coordinate with
  the supporting sustainment unit for Class I, II, III, IIIP, IV, V, VII, and IX supplies and with the Medical
  Brigade for Class VIII supplies.
  5-20. There are two standard methods of supply conducted in an operational environment: supply point
  distribution and unit distribution. The MEB can use either method when supplying subordinate units.
  * Supply point distribution. Supply point distribution requires the supported unit to move to a
  supply point to pick up supplies. The supply point issues materiel to the supported unit that
  transports their supplies back to the unit with organic transportation. Supply points include supply
  support activities for all supply classes.
  * Unit distribution. When unit distribution is used, the supported unit receives supplies in its area.
  The logistics release point, established by the supported unit, may be any place on the ground
  where unit vehicles pickup supplies and then take them forward to their unit.