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  (cid:122) Plan for pre-positioning and controlling ammunition on occupied and prepared defensive
  positions.
  Support to Operations Focused on Stability
  9-73. Sustainment while conducting operations focused on stability often involves supporting U.S. and
  multinational forces in a wide range of missions for an extended period. Tailoring supplies, personnel, and
  equipment to the specific needs of the task is essential for the BCT commander to accomplish the mission.
  9-74. The BCT may utilize to a greater extent sustainment support from host nations, contractors, and local
  entities. This can reduce dependence on the logistics system, improve response time and free airlift and sealift
  for other priority needs. Support may include limited classes of supplies and services (field feeding,
  maintenance and repair, sanitation, laundry, and transportation).
  9-75. Thelogistics civil augmentation program (LOGCAP) (see ATP 4-10.1) provides the ability to contract
  logistics support requirements in a theater of operations. (See AR700-137 for additional information.) The
  BCT commander should expect contractors to be involved in operations focused on stability after the initial
  response phase. The terms and conditions of the contract establish relationships between the military and the
  contractor. The commander and staff planners must assess the need to provide security to a contractor and
  designate forces when appropriate. The mission of, threat to, and location of the contractor and designate
  forces determines the degree of protection needed.
  DISTRIBUTION AND RESUPPLY OPERATIONS
  9-76. The BSB support operations officer is the principal staff officer responsible for synchronizing BSB
  distribution or resupply operations for all units assigned or attached to the BCT. Distribution encompasses
  the movement of personnel, materiel, and equipment insupport of decisive action. Resupply operations cover
  all classes of supply, water, mail, and any other items usually requested. The BSB support operations section
  is responsible for applying the BSB capabilities against the BCT’s requirements. The BCT S-4 identifies
  requirements through daily LOGSTAT reports, running estimates, and mission analysis. Whenever possible,
  units conduct resupply on a regular basis, ideally during hours of limited visibility.
  METHODS OF DISTRIBUTION
  9-77. 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 commander. The elements of logistics
  include maintenance, transportation, supply, field services, distribution, operational contract support, and
  general engineering. Distribution is the primary means that enables the other elements of logistics to provide
  operational reach, freedom of action, and prolonged endurance. The BSB executes distribution operations
  based on supply requirements communicated by their supported units. The BCT and subordinate maneuver
  forces communicate their requirements through LOGSTAT reports and other means, from battalion and
  squadron S-4s and BCT S-4 through the BSB support operations officer, to the BSB.
  9-78. Methods of distribution integrate and synchronize materiel management and transportation. Logistics
  planners base the method of distribution decisions on the supported units’ priorities and commodity priorities
  specified by the BSB and BCT commanders and described in the operation order and BCT sustainment
  concept of support. Sustainment units use the best distribution method dependent on the mission, the urgency
  of requirement, the threat, the supported unit’s priority of support,time/distance, and other factors of mission
  and operational variables. The two methods of distribution are unit distribution (throughput is considered a
  subset of unit distribution) and supply point distribution.
  Unit Distribution
  9-79. Unit distribution is the routine distribution method the BSB uses to support the BCT. Unit distribution
  is a method of distributing supplies by which the receiving unit is issued supplies in its own area, with
  transportation furnished by the issuing agency (FM 4-40). In unit distribution, logisticians organize supplies
  in configured loads and deliver supplies to one or more central locations. Supply personnel can create unit
  load configurations to resupply specific battalion-, company-, or platoon-sized elements depending on the