text: Sustainment
  7-13. To facilitate rapid planning, Force XXI Battle Command, brigade and below provides sustainment
  planners with reports to assist in planning. Supplemented by their actual operational experience, sustainment
  planners take advantage of—
  * Running estimates, status charts, and automatic estimation tools.
  * Updated status reports when the commander issues a WARNORD.
  * Established planning factors, historical data, and data tailored for their unit.
  * Procedures and organizations specified in the SOPs.
  LOGISTICS
  7-14. Logistics consist of supply, field services, maintenance, transportation, operational contract support,
  general engineering support, and distribution. Supply operations consider all classes of supply. For units
  conducting reconnaissance and security operations, usually classes III (B) (petroleum, oil, and lubricants
  [bulk]), IV (construction materials), V, VIII (medical), and IX are priority items for replenishment.
  7-15. The BCT will limit or suspend most field services during reconnaissance and security operations. Field
  services are those essential services for enhancing the quality of life of Soldiers. They include clothing repair
  and exchange, laundry and shower support, mortuary affairs, aerial delivery, and field feeding. The only field
  service provided to maneuver units during reconnaissance and security operations is field feeding. The FSC
  provides field-feeding support. Logistics organizations at EAB coordinate and provide all other field services.
  7-16. Maintenance is all actions taken to retain material in a serviceable condition or to restore it to
  serviceability. The Army utilizes a tiered, two-level maintenance system composed of field and sustainment
  maintenance. Field maintenance is on system maintenance, repair, and return to the user including
  maintenance actions performed by operators (FM 4-30). Mechanics and technicians organic to the BSB FSC
  maintenance platoon and the BSB field maintenance company perform field maintenance, and at times, from
  EAB. The unit maintenance officer and FSC, perform maintenance management including determining and
  utilizing battle damage assessment and repair, evacuation, and controlled exchange. (Refer to ATP 4-33 for
  more information.) Battle damage assessment and repair occurs at the point of fault or at the maintenance
  collection point. Battle damage assessment and repair properly applied at the point of fault may immediately
  return the equipment to a mission-capable status or prolong its functional life, which may be critical to
  maintaining combat power during reconnaissance and security operations. (Refer to ATP 4-31 for more
  information.) Maintenance planners recognize that an information requirement regarding the decision to
  echelon the combat trains forward is influenced by the amount of activity in the maintenance collection point.
  The maintenance collection point should maintain mobility so that it may support the reconnaissance or
  security mission at extended ranges.
  7-17. Transportation support for units conducting reconnaissance and security operations is coordinated
  through the unit S-4 and FSC to the BSB support operations officer. Many transportation requirements exceed
  organic assets and require support from EAB transportation units.
  7-18. Operational contract support occurs during all phases of operations and has increased emphasis during
  stability operations and area security missions. Trained and ready contracting officer representatives,
  field-ordering officers, and paying agents are a necessity to most units. These personnel are part of a larger
  acquisition team at higher echelons, which include the contract and financial management experts who
  provide guidance and direction to each field ordering officer and paying agent to meet the unit’s needs.
  7-19. The S-4 coordinates general engineering support through the BCT S-3. Engineering support includes
  engineering capabilities and activities excluding combat engineering that modifies, maintain, or protect the
  physical environment. Examples include facility construction, repair, maintenance, and operation.
  7-20. Logistics distribution to units conducting reconnaissance and security operations is either routine or
  emergency. Whenever possible, units conduct routine resupply daily based on METT-TC (I) utilizing either
  throughput, logistics release point, or supply point distribution methods.