text: Human Resources Echelons, Organizations, and Staff Elements
  MILITARY MAIL TERMINAL
  2-51. The MMT is attached to an HR company within the sustainment brigade assigned the theater opening
  mission and serves as the primary gateway(s) for postal operations in and out of the deployed AO. The MMT,
  with an HR company and four postal platoons coordinates, receives, and processes prograde mail, and
  dispatches retrograde mail to destinations worldwide. With specialized postal expertise, the MMT team
  establishes and provides the Army component of a joint MMT team at the inter-theater APOD.
  2-52. The MMT team initially deploys with the sustainment brigade with a theater opening mission to
  establish the MMT or joint MMT. As the theater matures the MMT team and supporting HR company
  transition to a theater distribution role. The MMT team receives technical guidance through the TPOC POD,
  service postal manager (SPM), and MPSA, and technical assistance from the HROBs. The MMT team
  operates under the operational control of the sustainment brigade during a theater opening mission and the
  operational control of the land component command in a mature theater. The sustainment brigade SPO
  section and HROB provide support to mission operations. The MMT is a technical element subordinate to
  the HR company responsible for executing the MMT mission. It ensures all functions of the MMT are within
  regulatory standards. Human resources companies and their subordinate elements (HR and postal platoons;
  TG PAT and MMT when performing those missions) operate under the guidance and direction of the STB
  commander.
  2-53. The MMT team consists of an HQ section, operations section, and two postal squads. The TPOC POD
  serves as the senior Army postal element for all technical matters. The HQ section provides a direct link with
  other Services for operating space at the terminal, flight schedules, and ground transportation of mail. It also
  provides a single joint operations area-level executor with the expertise to support the ASCC and TSC
  commander. The operations section is the vital link for all theater postal operations planning and
  implementing all necessary input from the other Services and guidance from the MPSA into OPLANs
  in-conjunction with the ASCC. The operations section is the operational interface between the MMT and
  HROBs for coordinating the distribution of mail and related postal transportation requirements within the
  AO. As the MMT does not have assigned transportation assets, it coordinates transportation support through
  the HROB section of the sustainment brigade SPO.
  2-54. Equipment is crucial to the success of MMT functions. All heavy postal equipment for the AO is
  associated with the MMT team. Equipment includes rough-terrain container handlers and 10-k forklifts to
  move bulk mail in and out of the APOD. Satellite phones, radios, and the Combat Service Support Automated
  Information Systems Interface connectivity provides the necessary communication link to control mail
  movements from the continental United States (CONUS) to and throughout the AO. Refer to ATP 1-0.2 for
  detailed organizational functions and responsibilities of the MMT team.
  DIVISION SUSTAINMENT TROOPS BATTALION SUPPORT
  OPERATIONS
  2-55. The DSTB SPO is the DSTB staff officer for postal operations within the division area as well as for
  required augmentation of the division's casualty reporting, and personnel accountability missions. The DSTB
  SPO gathers HR mission requirements to support the division's HR sustainment operations from the DSB.
  The DSTB SPO is responsible for planning, coordinating, integrating, and synchronizing and directing the
  execution of postal support, personnel accountability, and casualty reporting assistance with subordinate HR
  companies, platoons and teams in the division AO. This includes ensuring they are resourced, correctly
  positioned, and properly allocated to provide required postal support, as well as personnel accountability,
  and casualty reporting assistance from assigned or attached HR squads or platoons. The DSTB SPO receives
  technical guidance from the DSB SPO. Critical collective HR tasks of the DSTB SPO include:
  * Coordinate HR support operations.
  * Coordinate postal support.
  * Coordinate casualty liaison team operations.
  * Coordinate personnel accountability team operations.
  2-56. The DSTB SPO assigns missions for HR companies to execute. It monitors HR support (postal support,
  personnel accountability, and casualty reporting assistance) during operations and communicates sustainment