text: Sustainment Operations During Armed Conflict
  offensive operations—maintaining contact with the supported unit and maintaining mobility of the MTF
  supporting operational formations.
  5-281. Logistics planners include shower and laundry as considerations in their planning. A field service
  company can be placed as far forward as the supported maneuver brigade. The goal is to provide a minimum
  of one shower and one change of clothing at least every seven days. Planners assess the feasibility of these
  provisions and implement them where and when the operation allows.
  5-282. Maintenance personnel place maximum effort on preparing equipment for combat. Maintenance
  assets move closely behind the combat unit's main body to ensure rapid recovery, repair, and return of
  damaged or disabled equipment. Maintenance assets position themselves to support combat units out of
  enemy observation. Risk is high when performing on-site maintenance and recovery operations as combat
  forces are advancing rapidly. Planners balance risk with support requirements to ensure critical capabilities
  are not lost.
  5-283. Critical Class IX items should be identified and placed forward as far as possible to reduce the strain
  on transportation networks. Sustainers should anticipate increased consumption of Class IX items due to
  substantial maneuvering while on the offense. The use of predictive logistics sensors and data tools will
  support determining consumption amounts. Logistics packages offer the most common and efficient means
  of Class IX resupply for tactical units. The increased requirement for transportation assets will inherently
  increase maintenance requirements across the board.
  5-284. During offensive operations, financial management focuses on securing and safeguarding captured
  currency (enemy, allied, neutral, U.S., or mutilated currency) as well as supporting contracting and local
  procurements. This is accomplished by funding paying agents to pay local vendors for specific offensive
  operations requirements. LOCs between supported units can often be challenged during offensive operations,
  so finance units must remain mobile and effectively respond to requests for support. Other tasks executed
  during offensive operations include commercial vendor services and contract payments, disbursing and
  funding support, controlling currency (U.S. or local), providing detainee pay support, special programs, and
  supporting monetary compensation and consolation.
  5-285. HR planners should expect large numbers of casualties over extended battlefield depth during
  offensive operations and must be prepared to process mass casualty reports and large-scale personnel
  replacements to sustain combat power. Replacements must be forecasted and any lack of replacement
  capacity briefed to maneuver commanders as risk to mission. A high tempo during large-scale combat
  operations, coupled with potentially degraded systems and communications, will negatively impact
  PERSTAT and casualty reporting.
  5-286. Replacement operations entail the coordinated support, accountability, and delivery of individual and
  unit replacements from the point of origin to requesting commanders in deployed units. The TSC commander
  ensures that replacements are delivered from higher to lower echelons as far forward on the battlefield as
  possible based on distribution priorities established by the theater commander. Normally, replacements are
  processed through the theater gateway under the command and control of the TSC. Allocation decisions are
  relayed from the ASCC through the TSC and ESC to the sustainment brigade responsible for theater
  distribution. The sustainment brigade then coordinates transportation for movement of replacements to
  prioritized units at echelon.
  BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM SUSTAINMENT
  5-287. The BSB plans for increased requirements of fuel, ammunition, medical, and repair parts during
  offensive operations. It will prioritize support according to division priorities, including transportation of
  replacements to attrited units. It will plan to support maintenance and recovery of brigade assets in the
  offense. Medical evacuation also poses significant challenges in the brigade AO. Sustainment planners must
  be prepared to support the ambulance shuttle system on any asset to reduce turnaround time of assets
  supporting medical evacuation. Increased distances due to rapid changes in the tactical situation will require
  the BSB to move with the offense.
  5-288. Regularly scheduled combat configured loads with packages of potable water, ammunition, fuel,
  medical materiel, and repair parts tailored to the maneuver brigade ensure offensive momentum and freedom