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Chapter 5 5-2 ATP 3-09.24 30 March 2022 UNIT MINISTRY TEAM 5-7. Consists of a chaplain and a religious affairs specialist. The chaplain serves as a personal staff officer with direct access to the commander. 5-8. The FAB unit ministry team (UMT) provides religious support to all assigned or attached service members, family members, and authorized civilians. The UMT provides religious, moral, and ethical advisement to the command as they impact both individuals and the organization’s mission. The UMT coordinates with higher, subordinate, and adjacent UMTs and chaplain sections for area and denominational coverage requirements. See FMs 1-05 and 6-0 for additional information. BRIGADE SURGEON 5-9. The FAB surgeon is a special staff officer who is responsible for AHS operations in the FAB. The surgeon provides staff oversight and supervision for AHS operations in the FAB and coordinates with the FAB S-4 to integrate the FAB's medical concept of support into the overall concept of sustainment. The FAB surgeon exercises technical supervision and provides advice to the FAB commander on the health of the command. The FAB commander retains authority to make decisions which the FAB commander deems as critical. The surgeon provides staff oversight and supervision for AHS operations in the FAB and coordinates with the BSB SPO in developing the FAB's medical concept of support. The FAB surgeon keeps the commander informed of the health of the command. 5-10. The FAB brigade surgeon section ensures timely planning, integration, and synchronization of AHS operations with the FAB operations plan. Force health protection is a component of the AHS. While force health protection is under the protection warfighting function, both the force health protection mission and AHS are planned and executed by the same medical planning staffs and personnel led by the brigade surgeon. These missions would be addressed under separate annexes in operation plans and orders, health service support is addressed in the sustainment annex, and force health protection is addressed in the protection annex. See FM 1-0, FM 6-0, and the ATPs 4-02.3 and 4-02.8, for additional information. BRIGADE SUPPORT BATTALION 5-11. The BSB is the FAB's organic sustainment unit. The BSB commander is the FAB commander's senior logistician and the primary advisor on the sustainment of all brigade operations. The BSB provides general supplies, fuel, and ammunition to the FAB. Fuel storage, water purification capability, and additional transportation assets required for FAB operations must be requested from external sources. 5-12. The BSB plans and coordinates deliberate, time-sensitive replenishment of classes I, II, III (B), IV, V, IX, and water for the FAB units. The BSB performs field maintenance and recovery, and operates an ammunition transfer holding point. The BSB plans and coordinates for mortuary affairs support. Additional sustainment capability may be attached to the FAB BSB and may include modular supply, transportation, and ammunition companies. Company-sized medical units will normally not be attached to a FAB BSB, though a smaller medical detachment may be attached as the mission requires. For more on the BSB see ATP 4-90. BRIGADE SUPPORT BATTALION COMMANDER 5-13. FAB sustainment operations are generally of sufficient scope and complexity that command oversight is needed. The BSB commander performs this function for the FAB commander with duties and responsibilities to include: Advise the FAB commander on the sustainment of all brigade operations. Provide guidance to the BSB staff and the FAB's sustainment S-4 in order to effectively achieve the FAB commander's intent. Synchronize and execute logistics for the FAB. Drive the logistics planning necessary to understand, visualize, and describe the operational environment; make and articulate decisions; and direct, lead, and assess military operations. Track and control the logistics operations,