lubricants. It issues materials and operates various types of material handling equipment. LABOR AND EQUIPMENT BRANCH.— This branch maintains a residual labor and equipment pool. It determines and furnishes requirements for material handling equipment. It also furnishes laborers, high lift truck operators, and other ungraded personnel not permanently assigned to the part of supply using them. This branch also gets and distributes transportation and weight handling equipment when public works does not provide them. SHOP STORES BRANCH.— When established, this branch controls and operates shop stores according to current directives. It provides personnel for storage, counter service, record keeping, and stock control functions. It works together with the department served in setting the range and depth of needed stock items in shop stores. When other commands set up this store and the stock is part of the store’s account of the supporting command, it is considered a ready supply store. The organization concept of a ready supply store is the same as a shop store. FUEL BRANCH.— When authorized by NAVSUP supply may set up a Fuel branch when it is required by workload and scope of operations. This branch receives, stores, and issues fuels. At activities with limited storage capacity, the Fuel branch also may determine requirements and schedule deliveries of fuels. FOOD SERVICE DIVISION.— The supply department may set up this division when authorized by NAVSUP This division is also known as the enlisted dining facility (EDF). The organization of a Food Service division largely depends on the size, physical layout, facilities of the station, and number of personnel subsisting in the facility. The Food Service division operates the enlisted dining facility. It also performs administrative functions, such as maintaining records and submitting returns. AVIATION SUPPORT DIVISION.— TMS division is also known as the supply support center (SSC). It is responsible for providing supply support for assigned organizational and intermediate maintenance activities (OMA and IMA). The Aviation Support division (ASD) is the single point of contact for maintenance activities requiring direct supply support. It is where Material Control places requirements for material and equipment needed to support maintenance of weapons systems. Material Control places these requirements by submitting requisitions to ASD. Chapter 9 of this training manual describes ASD responsibilities and functions in detail. Afloat The organization of the supply department afloat varies according to the mission, physical characteristics, and complement of the ship. As an AK, you will most likely be assigned to an aircraft carrier (CV or CVN) or an amphibious assault ship (LPH). The supply organization structure for these ships can be found in Afloat Supply Procedures, NAVSUP P-485, and Automated Snap 1 Supply Procedures, volume 1, NAVSUP P-567. The NAVSUP P-567 provides illustrations of typical supply organizations for different types of ships. Figure 1-5 of this chapter provides an example of a supply department organization afloat. As a member of the supply department aboard ship, you will be dealing with personnel in other divisions. To perform your duties effectively, you must be familiar with the different divisions. During weekends and after normal working hours, only the duty section staffs the supply department. The duty section consists of personnel from other divisions of the supply depart- ment. With few people in the duty section, all its members have to participate to accomplish any major task. You must know all the members and where they work, because you may have to contact everyone for a muster or meeting. You may become part of different working party evolutions aboard ship or pierside. The underway replenishment (UNREP) or vertical replenishment (VERTREP) evolutions consist mostly of supply personnel from different divisions. In separating material, you must know how to differentiate items for ship’s store, stock or direct turnover (DTO). You must be able to segregate stock items for general stores, clothing, subsistence, and aviation stores. After segregating the items, it might be your job to tell each division responsible for the material to pick it up. The following paragraphs will help you familiarize yourself with the supply organization aboard ship. SUPPLY OFFICER AND ASSISTANT (AFLOAT).— The supply officer (SUPO) is the senior supply corps officer on board the ship and is the head of the supply department. The supply officer is responsible to the commanding officer for the performance and administration of all supply functions. The assistant supply officer (ASUPO) is also the primary assistant on aircraft carriers. The primary responsibility of the ASUPO is to ensure the proper 1-11