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18 June 2020 ATP 4-90 A-1 Appendix A Standard Mission-Essential Task List Company-sized and above Army units develop a mission-essential task list (METL) which enables commanders to assess training readiness. Army units organized with a table of equipment and organization have a proponent-developed standard METL. A unit’s standard METL represents the doctrinal framework of fundamental collective tasks for which the Army designed the unit to perform decisive action tasks. The standard METL consists of mission essential tasks and supporting collective tasks. This appendix provides background information about the standard METL and lists the brigade support battalion standard mission essential tasks. The most current mission essential tasks and supporting collective tasks are available at the Army Training Network. UNIT TRAINING A-1. The Army trains to provide forces ready to conduct unified land operations. The Army does this by executing tough, realistic, and challenging training. Unit and individual training occurs all the time at: home station, combat training centers, and while deployed. Training is the cornerstone of readiness. To achieve a high degree of readiness, the Army trains in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Realistic training with limited time and resources demands that commanders focus their unit training efforts to maximize training proficiency. A-2. Units measure proficiency in individual, leader, and collective tasks against published standards. The Army recognizes proficiency as complete task proficiency, advanced task proficiency, basic task proficiency, limited task proficiency, or cannot perform the task. All unit leaders are responsible for quality training. A-3. A battle-focused unit trains selectively. It cannot train to standard on every task at once, whether due to time or other resource constraints. Focusing on the tasks to train, based on the higher commander’s guidance, and taking into account time and resources are limited, is battle-focused training. A-4. There is rarely enough time or resources to complete all the tasks a BSB might have to complete. The commander has to determine what is essential and then assign responsibility for its accomplishment. The concept of mission essential tasks provides the commander a process to provide the unit its battle focus. A mission-essential task is a collective task on which an organization trains to be proficient in its designed capabilities or assigned mission (FM 7-0). A mission-essential task list is a tailored group of mission-essential tasks, and each aligns with the collective tasks that support it. A-5. The unit task list is a list of collective tasks the unit is designed to perform based on the unit's role, mission, functions, capabilities, personnel, equipment, and employment. Commanders identify which tasks the unit is unable to train to proficiency due to resources, manpower, time constraints, or higher headquarters' priorities. The commander then identifies the risks associated with lack of training to the higher headquarters commander. MISSION-ESSENTIAL TASKS A-6. Units organized with a table of organization and equipment have an approved and standard METL based on the type of unit by echelon. The BSB and its subordinate companies have a standard mission-essential task list. For logistics units, the Combined Arms Support Command develops the unit METL. The Combined Arms Support Command then staffs the standard mission-essential task list and collective tasks with the Army commands and Army Service component commands. Headquarters