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throughout the field army area by separate brigade service support to army forces in a theater of opersize
organizations.
ations. Services provided include general support
b. Support Brigades. The support brigades provide
to the field army, direct and general support to the
supply, maintenance, and specialized services communications zone, and rear area security and
in a designated area. A corps support brigade is
area damage control within a communications
zone.
employed in the corps area and an army rear support
brigade is employed in the army service area. a. Functions. Combat service support functions
The support brigades provide a variety of services performed by the TASCOM include administra-
(supply, maintenance, POL, postal, finance) tion civil affairs, engineer, maintenance, medical,
within their assigned areas. Their primary mis- military police, movements personnel, legal, field
sions are supply and maintenance of all equipment services, comptroller and finance, supply, and
and supplies except those provided by army-wide transportation.
service brigades. Each of the corps support brigades
provides general support to the divisions nized with the following major subordinate comand
both direct and general support to nondi- mands:
mands:
visional units in the corps area. The army rear
support brigade provides direct and general sup- (1) Area support command.
port to the units in the army service area.
(2) Engineer command.
(3) Medical command.
7-5. Combat Service Support, Theater (4) Personnel command.
Army Support Command (5) Supply and maintenance command.
The mission of the TASCOM is to provide combat (6) Transportation command.
Section II. MAINTENANCE
7-6. Maintenance Responsibilities personal attention to the preventive maintenance
Maintenance of equipment includes all actions program. They must know the equipment and demtaken
to retain materiel in a serviceable condition onstrate their interest by personal supervision of
or to restore it to serviceability. It includes the maintenance operations and by frequent informal
routine care exercised by operators and users, as inspections. Command maintenance management
well as the repair, rebuilding, and overhaul per- inspections, conducted as prescribed by AR 750-8,
formed by trained technicians. The army materiel insure that proper maintenance is being permaintenance
system is divided into four cate- formed on all major items of equipment and that
gories: organizational maintenance, direct support the information on preventive maintenance conmaintenance,
general support maintenance, and tained in D PAM 750-1 and in the equipment
depot maintenance (AR 310-25) and AR 750-1). technical manuals is being applied. Details on the
These categories, which are based upon the extent preparation and use of maintenance performance
of the capabilities, facilities, and skills required to records are contained in TM 38-750 and TM 38-
perform authorized maintenance operations, are 750-1. Additional maintenance reference publiused
as the means of designating the scope of cations are listed in appendix A.
maintenance to be performed at the various command
levels. Commanders at all levels are respon- b. It is the responsibility of each officer, warrant
sible for compliance with established practices and officer, and noncommissioned officer to initiate onprocedures
for preventive maintenance operations, the-spot corrective action whenever he observes
for the training of personnel in their command in deficiencies in the condition or operation of equippreventive
maintenance of equipment, for insuring ment. Evidence of abuse will be immediately inthat
proper security safeguards are in effect dur- vestigated and corrective action taken. Some coming
maintenance tests, and for the allocation of mon abuses aresufficient
time to perform the required preventive (1) Improper, careless, or negligent use of
maintenance.
equipment.
a. Commanders, maintenance section chiefs, and (2) Lack of lubrication, overlubrication, or
subordinate commanders must give priority and use of unauthorized lubricants.
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