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Chapter 1 1-20 ATP 4-90 18 June 2020 providing common user logistics support to a force package of approximately 2,200 personnel when combined with the logistics support capabilities resident in the special forces battalions. For support to progressively larger and widely dispersed special operations force packages, the GSB depends upon augmentation from the theater Army’s theater sustainment command. Maintenance Company The maintenance company consists of the following sections: headquarters, maintenance control, ground maintenance, electronic maintenance, armament maintenance, and base support. It provides base operations support and field-level maintenance for Army-common and select specific special operations forces automotive, power generation, armament, construction, quartermaster, communication, electronic, and ground support equipment. The maintenance control section provides maintenance information management to the SPO section by transmission of data Combat Service Support Automated Information System Interface (CAISI), Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT), GCSS-Army, and other communications systems. Forward Support Company Each special forces battalion has an organic FSC. The FSCs are designed to provide support to the special forces battalions. The FSC consists of sustainment, distribution, and maintenance platoons. It is a multifunctional logistics company providing maintenance, limited classes I through IX supplies, fuel and water production, ammunition holding, and transportation. The FSC is independently deployable and capable of providing support to an entire special forces battalion and its attached elements. When the special forces battalion establishes a special operations task force, the FSC commander may coordinate and supervise the support center logistics activities. The FSC— Provides continuous battle tracking of special forces battalion units. Assists the battalion S-4 with developing the sustainment concept of support for the battalion. Executes tactical and logistical coordination with higher, adjacent, and supported units, as appropriate. Oversees the development of the daily logistics packages by the service detachment supply section and the company supply sergeants. COMBAT AVIATION BRIGADE The core competencies of the CAB are to provide accurate and timely information collection; provide reaction time and maneuver space; destroy, defeat, disrupt, or delay enemy forces; air assault maneuver forces; position personnel, supplies, and equipment; evacuate casualties and perform personnel recovery; and enable C2 to support the combined arms team. A combat aviation brigade is organized to synchronize operations of multiple aviation squadrons/battalions, ground maneuver battalions, or companies and joint aviation units task organized to provide reconnaissance, security, hasty and deliberate attacks, interdiction, air assault, and air movement operations to support ground forces under the headquarters to which it is assigned. The CAB is tailored for the mission, containing both manned and unmanned systems, and can support multiple brigade combat teams. The theater aviation brigade is a deployable operational level organization that usually reinforces other aviation commands with subordinate battalions and companies or provides theater support autonomously. The theater aviation brigade may also be task organized with other aviation units to accomplish other traditional CAB missions and core competencies but requires C2, staff and maintenance augmentation. Aviation Support Battalion Capabilities The aviation support battalion (ASB) is organic to the CAB, the expeditionary CAB, and the theater aviation brigade. It consists of a HSC, a distribution company, an aviation support company, and a brigade signal company. The ASB provides aviation and ground field maintenance, ground and aviation recovery, network communications, resupply, and Role 1 medical support for the CAB. The ASB provides maintenance augmentation to aviation battalions when required The ASB supports the CAB’s forward support companies/troops, aviation maintenance companies/troops, the brigade’s HHC, and the unmanned aircraft