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  utilize multiple maintenance collection points to optimize repair and limited recovery resources.
  Commanders may also authorize battle damage assessment and repair, controlled exchange, or overrides to
  deficiencies so equipment can be operated under the specific limitations directed by higher authority.
  Establishing timelines, standards, and resources for these actions should be addressed in unit SOPs.
  5-77. Figure 5-3 depicts an example of echeloned maintenance capabilities for an FSC in support of an
  armored brigade. In this example, the FSC commander arrays the field maintenance section and recovery
  section in three echelons. In the first echelon, a field maintenance team with two or more maintainers and a
  tracked recovery vehicle are located in each of the company trains. The teams assist the company’s vehicle
  operators and personnel with verifying faults, repairing minor issues, and ordering parts.
  5-78. Vehicles requiring repairs that exceed the timelines established in unit SOPs are evacuated from the
  company trains to the second echelon. In this example, the maintenance collection point containing the
  majority of the FSC maintainers is the second echelon. The maintainers work on vehicles and equipment to
  repair and return forward in accordance with unit SOP timelines.
  5-79. Vehicles and equipment at the second echelon that exceed repair timelines in the unit SOP are further
  evacuated to the third echelon shown as the BSA. The FSC commander keeps a small team of maintainers in
  the field trains located in the BSA. Their role is to make a final attempt to repair equipment at field-level
  maintenance before it is coded out and turned in for sustainment-level maintenance.
  5-80. If the armored brigade must move forward, the maneuver commander must choose to either leave the
  maintenance collection point in place, move the maintenance collection point forward with the unit, evacuate
  the equipment in the maintenance collection point back to the BSA, or move the BSA forward to the
  maintenance collection point. There is significant risk associated with each course of action and the
  commander chooses the optimal one based on operational requirements.
  Figure 5-3. Examples of echeloned maintenance support to an armored brigade
  5-81. Maneuver brigades also have relatively robust logistics capability to fulfill other support requirements.
  Their personnel services and medical capability is similar, with limitations and dependencies on EAB
  formations and their support relationships. Field artillery units have organic sustainment organizations, but
  lack certain capabilities (such as commodity maintenance, separate distribution, and brigade support medical
  companies) that maneuver brigades possess.
  5-82. Maneuver brigades most commonly execute supply point distribution to fulfill requirements by means
  of logistics release points (LRPs). LRPs may be any place on the ground where distribution unit vehicles take