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Appendix B B-4 ATP 4-90 18 June 2020 coordinate with one of these entities for the resupply of all classes of supply, medical evacuation, maintenance support, field feeding, finance, postal, and any other type of support needed. B-15. The role of the SFAB BSB is to train, advise, and assist foreign security forces in sustainment operations and provide limited logistics and medical support to an SFAB depending on theater assets available. The SFAB BSB has two core competencies. The first is to provide foreign security forces’ sustainment units with training on individual, unit and leader tasks, and advice and assistance in operations planning, synchronization, and execution. The second is sustainment planning, synchronization, and execution to support SFAB operations. B-16. The BSB performs the following functions: distribution operations, field-level maintenance, and enhanced role 1 medical care for the SFAB. The BSB is an expeditionary, multifunctional logistics battalion with integrated medical support that can operate at the tactical level in a potentially dispersed area of operations to support a brigade advising and assisting foreign security forces. The BSB and its organic units may be tasked to operate in limited capabilities in smaller sections, decentralized, and under the OPCON of other government entities including the American Embassy chief of mission or the Army Service component command. B-17. There is limited capability in the BSB to meet the SFAB’s sustainment requirements. The BSB provides a limited distribution capability from a transportation squad along with a limited maintenance capability provided by a field maintenance team. The BSB also provides a surgeon to evaluate the supported foreign security forces’ medical officer, medical care, and evacuation capabilities.