Military Logistics and Services Overview

Army Service Corps Battalion

• Provides vehicles, supply, hygiene, chemical, and community kitchen services to its dependent units of Division Headquarters during peace and field service.
• Manned by two Mechanical Transport Companies, each with 120 ALS vehicles, and one Supply Company with four Compo Platoons.
• A & B Company are responsible for second-line transportation, including the ferrying of stores during relief moves or Annual Training Camps. Indents for transportation are required 72 hours before the move during peacetime.
• C Company is responsible for supplying items, Hygiene & Chemical materials, and communal kitchen services to its dependent units in both peacetime and field operations.

Military Engineering Services (MES)

• Responsible for handling and taking over vehicles, ammunition, explosives, mines, and other stores.
• Relief Move is the process of transitioning stores and equipment between units.
• Personnel weapons, vehicles, unit equipment, and tentage are generally carried with the unit during relief moves.
• Station/sector stores, loan/trail stores, rationalisation/aided/Army Commander Special Financial Power (ACSFP) stores, second-line ammunition, and war wastage reserves are generally not carried with the unit.
• Check List of Military Engineer Services buildings includes:
  • Original barrack inventory signed by Military Engineer Services representative.
  • Deficiencies noted on the inventory.
  • Details of maintenance, minor, major, and special repair works.
  • Charts of area of responsibility for maintenance.
  • Details of accommodation, its use, and last vacation report.

Defence Land

• The handing over unit must provide a briefing on Defence Land and security measures to the Officer Commanding Advance Party.
• The unit taking over Defence Land should receive an updated album/register with the following details:
  • Maps of the area signed by the Defence Estate Officer and Station Headquarter.
  • Type of defence land.
  • Total area of defence land with Khasra No.
  • Number of Board Proceedings and their Grid Reference.
  • Details of any encroachments.
  • Key Location Plan/Interim Location Plan.
  • Zonal Plan.
  • Military Engineer Services site plan with the layout of existing buildings.
  • Photographs of buildings, the area, and boundary pillars.

Arboriculture

• Handing over documents include:
  • A tree record register duly audited.
  • Details of existing arboriculture in the station.

Station Fire Committee

• The Station Commander appoints a standing Station Fire Committee in every station.
• The committee acts in an advisory capacity on all matters relating to precautions against fire outbreaks.
• The committee comprises three officers, preferably an Engineer officer, an officer from the Army Service Corps, and a field officer from another unit.
• The committee's duties include:
  • Recommending the fixation or revision of fire fighting equipment scales.
  • Conducting bi-annual inspections of all units/establishments in the station.
  • Ensuring adequate fire-fighting arrangements and serviceable fire-fighting equipment.