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Sustainment 09 November 2021 FM 3-81 5-5 Note. Planners need to coordinate for TCF maintenance support to accompany the unit when assigned to a MEB. The MEB does not have maintainers with the proper skills or tools to support main weapons systems (tanks, armored personnel carriers, or Stryker vehicles). Transportation 5-16. The MEB HSC and signal company have 100 percent mobility of their TOE equipment and supplies in a single lift using organic equipment. If MEB assigned and attached units require additional lift support, they will request it through channels to the MEB S-4. Supply 5-17. Supply is the process by which required materials and equipment are made available to supported units to help them accomplish the mission. This process includes all classes of supply, to include Class VIII. MEB resupply to subordinate elements is coordinated through the S-4 sections. Supplies are provided through the distribution processes established below. Field Services 5-18. Field services maintain combat strength of the force by providing for its basic needs and promoting its health, welfare, morale, and endurance. Field services provide life support functions. ATP 4-42 has additional information on field services. Field services include— Shower and laundry. There is no organic laundry or shower capability in the MEB. Support must be coordinated by S-4 with the sustainment brigade in general support of the MEB. Field feeding. With the exception of a TCF, units typically assigned to a MEB do not have organic field feeding support. The MEB S-4 will need to coordinate field feeding support and Class I supplies with the supporting sustainment command. Water. The MEB has limited organic capability to produce, store, and transport purified water to meet the MEB support requirements. The MEB S-4 will coordinate with the support sustainment brigade or command for water support requirements. Mortuary affairs. The MEB is dependent on its supported command for processing and evacuating remains. Internal to the MEB, handling teams are predesignated at the unit level. It is the unit responsibility to evacuate remains to the mortuary affairs collection point. Medical. The MEB is dependent on the Medical Brigade (Support) for all AHS support above Role 1 medical treatment. Distribution 5-19. Distribution is the primary means to prolong endurance. Distribution is the operational process of synchronizing all elements of the logistic system to deliver the “right things” to the “right place” at the “right time” to support the geographic combatant commander (JP 4-0). The MEB is typically co-located with the division sustainment brigade or division sustainment support battalion. The MEB S-4 will coordinate with the supporting sustainment unit for Class I, II, III, IIIP, IV, V, VII, and IX supplies and with the Medical Brigade for Class VIII supplies. 5-20. There are two standard methods of supply conducted in an operational environment: supply point distribution and unit distribution. The MEB can use either method when supplying subordinate units. Supply point distribution. Supply point distribution requires the supported unit to move to a supply point to pick up supplies. The supply point issues materiel to the supported unit that transports their supplies back to the unit with organic transportation. Supply points include supply support activities for all supply classes. Unit distribution. When unit distribution is used, the supported unit receives supplies in its area. The logistics release point, established by the supported unit, may be any place on the ground where unit vehicles pickup supplies and then take them forward to their unit.