SEPARATE BRIGADE-LEVEL SUPPORT
Separate brigades (armor, infantry, mechanized infantry, airborne, and air assault) are not assigned to divisions and are designed to be committed in combat as separate units. A separate brigade receives most of its DS CSS from an organic support battalion. The support battalion is organized with an HHC, a supply and transport (S&T) company, maintenance company, and medical company (seefigure 1-3). The support battalion receives general support (GS) and reinforcing DS from corps support command (COSCOM) elements.
a. The HHC provides C2 for the support battalion in the same manner as a DISCOM HHC. Unlike the divisional support battalions, it has a brigade materiel management center (BMMC). The BMMC provides the link for CSS between the separate brigade and COSCOM.
b. The S&T company performs a DS supply mission similar to a main support battalion (MSB) supply and service (S&S) company, plus provides transportation support for supply distribution and moving the brigade's supply reserve. When augmented, the company provides mortuary affairs; shower, laundry, and clothing repair (SLCR); and unclassified map supply.
c. The maintenance company furnishes separate brigade elements with DSM, repair parts supply, and technical assistance. It is organized with the required system support teams to maintain assigned brigade equipment and systems except in the areas of ammunition, medical equipment, airdrop equipment, and avionics.
d. The medical company provides CHS to the separate brigade at the same level as found in a division (level II). The company has treatment and ambulance platoons, a medical supply section, a preventive medicine (PM) section, mental health team section, an optometry section, and an area support section.
TERMINOLOGY.
a. DS is a mission given to supply, services, transportation, and maintenance units that normally provide support directly to other specific units. This allows the DS unit to respond directly to the supported unit's requests for assistance or supplies.
b. GS is a mission given to supply, services, transportation, and maintenance units that normally provide support to DS units and other GS units.
c. Reconstitution is a total process that increases unit combat effectiveness using the three elements of reorganization, regeneration, and assessment.
Reorganization is action taken to shift internal resources within a degraded unit to increase its level of combat effectiveness. Reorganization is normally done at unit level (company, battalion, brigade, etc.) and requires only limited external support such as supply replenishment, maintenance assistance, and personnel replacement.
(a) Immediate reorganization,quickly and temporarily restores degraded units to their minimum required levels of effectiveness. It is normally implemented in combat positions or as close as possible to meet near-term needs. Platoons usually conduct immediate reorganization after seizing an objective.
(b) Deliberate reorganization,conducted when more time and resources are available. It occurs farther to the rear than immediate reorganization. Equipment repair and cross-leveling are more extensive.
Regeneration is action taken to rebuild a unit through external resources using large-scale replacement of personnel, equipment, and supplies; reestablishing essential C2; and conducting mission-essential training. This effort is directed toward restoring the organization's cohesion, discipline, and fighting effective-ness. The echelon two levels above the organization to be regenerated normally conducts regeneration,battalion by division, brigade by corps.
Assessmentmeasures a unit's capability to perform its mission. It occurs in two phases. The unit commander conducts the first phase by assessing his unit before, during, and after operations. The second phase is assessing a unit after it has been removed from combat. External elements conduct this assessment.
d. Classes of supply. The Army has divided supplies into 10 classes for planning and administrative purposes. Definitions and "examples" of each supply class, symbols, and a miscellaneous grouping follow: