text: Sustainment
  Medical Logistics
  5-48. The MEB surgeon coordinates medical logistics support with both the supported higher echelon
  surgeon and the EAB medical brigade providing general support to the AO. This includes planning and
  executing all Class VIII supply support, contract support, medical hazardous waste disposal, and distribution
  of medical gases.
  Force Health Protection
  5-49. The MEB surgeon’s duties and responsibilities for FHP may include—
  * Identifying potential medical-related commander’s critical information requirements (PIR and
  friendly force information requirements) as they pertain to the health threat, ensuring that they are
  incorporated into the command’s intelligence requirements.
  * Coordinating for veterinary support for food safety, animal care, and veterinary services, to
  include zoonotic diseases transmissible to man.
  * Planning for and implementing FHP operations to counter health threats.
  * Planning for and accomplishing redeployment and post deployment health assessments.
  * Establishing and executing a medical surveillance program.
  * Establishing and executing an occupational and environmental health surveillance program.
  * Recommending combat and operational stress control, behavioral health, and substance abuse
  control programs.
  * Ensuring that general threat, health threat, and medical intelligence considerations are integrated
  into AHS support OPLANs and orders.
  * Advising MEB commanders on FHP CBRN defensive actions, such as immunizations, use of
  chemoprophylaxis, pretreatments, and barrier creams.
  * Maintaining situational understanding by coordinating for current FHP information with surgeon
  staffs of the next higher, adjacent, and subordinate headquarters.
  * Coordinating and synchronizing:
   Combat and operational stress control programs with the division surgeon section and
  supporting medical brigade.
   Operational public health services, to include identification of health threats.
   Preventive dentistry support programs for the prevention of cavities and gum disease.
   Support of area medical laboratories, to include the identification of biological and chemical
  environmental hazards, as required.
  5-50. Preventive medicine personnel provide operational public health support for the identification of
  endemic and emerging diseases and for employment of the countermeasures required to address health threats
  in the brigade area. Effective and timely FHP measures are essential for sustaining combat power during
  continuous operations. The MEB first line of protection is the use of operational public health measures and
  unit field sanitation teams to protect against food, water, and vector-borne diseases and environmental
  injuries. Coordination with supporting veterinary teams is also required for food safety and quality assurance
  surveillance and for assisting in foodborne and zoonotic disease surveillance and control. For additional
  support, MEB subordinate units coordinate through their medical treatment team or the brigade surgeon
  section for operational public health preventive medicine. Personnel from the medical brigade (support)
  provide operational public health provide advice and consultation in the areas of disease and nonbattle injury,
  environmental sanitation, epidemiology, entomology, medical surveillance, limited sanitary engineering
  services, and pest management.
  5-51. The mental health section provides training and advice in the control of stressors and the promotion of
  positive combat and operational stress behaviors. The mental health element provides early identification,
  handling, and management of misconduct stress behavior. The section also assists and counsels personnel
  with personal, behavioral, or psychological problems and may refer suspected neuropsychiatric cases for
  evaluation. These programs are designed to maximize the return-to-duty rate by identifying combat stress
  reactions and providing rest/restoration within or near the Soldier’s unit area. See FM 4-02 for additional
  information.