text: Sustainment
  Financial Management
  5-39. The MEB has no special financial management capability. The MEB S-3 coordinates for support from
  mobile financial management teams. Financial management organizations provide support to MEB units and
  individual Soldiers on an area basis. During deployments, mobile teams from corps-level financial
  management organizations provide support to forward units. Financial management support units are also
  found at the sustainment brigade level on a general support or an area basis. They provide financial
  management services, to include paying and preparing certified vouchers, receiving collections, establishing
  financial management control processes, tracking commitments and obligations, providing vendor support
  and accounting, and establishing disbursing station numbers and a local depository.
  Legal Support
  5-40. The brigade legal section provides and supervises legal support to MEB leaders. The brigade legal
  section provides and coordinates all legal support for the MEB. Paralegal Soldiers in the MEB and
  subordinate battalions provide paraprofessional and ministerial support for legal actions. The United States
  Army Trial Judiciary and United States Army Trial Defense Service are independent organizations that
  provide military judge and trial defense services to the MEB.
  Religious Support
  5-41. The MEB chaplain is the personnel staff officer responsible for implementing the commander’s
  religious support program. The religious support mission is to assist commanders in the responsibility to
  provide for the free exercise of religion and to provide religious, moral, and ethical leadership to sustain a
  ready force of resilient and ethical Soldiers and leaders. UMTs and chaplain sections, comprised of at least
  one chaplain and one religious affairs specialist, possess three core competencies: nurture the living, care for
  the wounded, and honor the dead. The religious support mission is executed through two required
  capabilities—providing support and advising the command. For additional information on religious support,
  see ATP 1-05.3, ATP 1-05.4, and FM 1-05.
  HEALTH SERVICE SUPPORT SECTION
  5-42. HSS encompasses all support and services performed, provided, and arranged by the AHS to promote,
  improve, conserve, or restore the behavioral and physical well-being of Army personnel and, as directed,
  unified action partners. HSS includes the following—
  * Medical treatment (organic and area support).
  * Hospitalization.
  * Medical evacuation (including medical regulating).
  * Medical logistics (including blood management).
  5-43. The MEB surgeon’s duties and responsibilities for HSS and FHP may include—
  * Advising the commander on the health of the MEB units.
  * Planning and coordinating for health services support and FHP for MEB units (including but not
  limited to medical treatment, medical logistics, medical evacuation, hospitalization, veterinary
  services, dental services, combat and operational stress control, operational public health, and
  laboratory services).
  * Developing and coordinating the AHS OPLANs to support the MEB commander’s decisions,
  planning guidance, and intent in support of unified land operations.
  * Recommending task organization of medical units/elements in support to MEB units to satisfy all
  medical mission requirements.
  * Monitoring troop strength of medical personnel and their utilization.
  * Evaluating and interpreting medical statistical data.
  * Monitoring medical logistics and blood management operations in the theater.
  * Monitoring medical regulating and patient tracking operations for MEB personnel.