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Chapter 5 5-10 ATP 3-09.24 30 March 2022 an order, ensuring coordinated religious support for FAB Soldiers. The religious support plan should consider: Area support. Denominational coverage. Use of distinctive religious group leaders. Potential for mass casualties. Coordination with the Red Cross for family problems. Stress management after combat. Pastoral care and counseling to key leaders. 5-73. Chaplains advise their commanders on the moral, ethical, and religious nature of command policies, programs, and actions, as well as their impact on Soldiers. UMTs have a staff role as well as a religious role. As professional religious staff advisors, chaplains can research and interpret cultural and religious factors pertinent to a given operational area. They may work with Civil Affairs personnel in analyzing local religious organizations, customs and practices, doctrines, symbols, and the significance of shrines and holy places. Chaplains may conduct Soldier and leader engagements when appropriate and directed to do so by the commander. LEGAL SUPPORT 5-74. The FAB staff judge advocate is usually located in the FAB main CP to advise the brigade commander and staff on national security law, military justice, administrative law, contract and fiscal law, and other areas of the law as required. The FAB legal section also provides support in all legal functions to subordinate commanders and staffs. MEDICAL SUPPORT 5-75. FABs do not have an organic medical company. AHS support for the FAB is found in the HHB medical section. The HHB medical section consists of a medical treatment team and medical evacuation squad. For additional details, see ATP 4-02.3. 5-76. The medical company area support, from the supporting medical multifunctional BN, provides Role 2 AHS support for the FAB. In addition, it provides Role 2 support on an area support basis for all other assigned and attached organizations. For additional details, see ATP 4-02.3. BRIGADE SUPPORT AREA 5-77. A support area is a designated area in which sustainment elements, some staff elements, and other supporting elements locate to support a unit. The sustainment area is an AO that is normally located in the FAB support area. A brigade support area is a designated area in which sustainment elements locate to provide support to a brigade (ATP 4-90). 5-78. Trains are a unit grouping of personnel, vehicles, and equipment to provide sustainment. It is the basic sustainment tactical organization. Field artillery BNs use trains to array their subordinate sustainment elements, including their FSC. Combat trains usually are under the control of the headquarters company commander. The BN S-4, and the BN S-1 are positioned in the combat trains. The composition and location of combat trains varies depending on the number of units attached to, or augmenting, the FA BN. 5-79. The BSA is the logistical, personnel, and administrative hub of the FAB. The area consists of the base or bases occupied by the BSB. It could also include those areas occupied by the FAB alternate CP (if formed), BN combat trains, FSCs, AMD assets, signal assets, and other sustainment units from higher HQ (division, corps, or JTF). The BSA may consist of one or more bases in a base cluster within its higher HQ support area. See ATP 3-37.10 for more information on establishing and securing bases. The FAB S-3, with the FAB S-4 and the BSB commander and SPO, determines the location of the BSA. The BSA should be located so that support to the FAB can be maintained, but does not interfere with the tactical movement of FAB units, or with units that must pass through the BSA. The size of the BSA varies with terrain. Usually the BSA is nearby a main supply route in the division, corps, or JTF support area, and ideally is out of the range of the