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Some of the procedures within this chapter are mandatory and are to be used by all units within the Military Air Environment; the other procedures will only be used if required by the unit concerned. The *Forward or Depth* authority level K is to decide which procedures best suit their Stn/Ship/Unit, the type of tool tallies that are to be used and the method of identifying that a hand tool has been issued. These decisions are to be promulgated in *Forward and Depth* Station/Ship/Unit Aviation Engineering Standing Orders or equivalent.

*Forward* Support Activities
Support activities in this group are those that are directly concerned with preparing equipment for use and sustaining it in an operational condition throughout a period of need such as a sortie, a mission or a campaign. Such activities include the following, all of which are optimised for effectiveness, will be relatively frequent and of short duration:
- Flight Servicing (including preventative maintenance and replenishment activities) [1], re-fuelling, re-arming and role changing.
- Functional testing and adjustment.
- Minor modification.
- Fault diagnosis and minor corrective maintenance.
- Scheduled maintenance.
- Expedient Repair [1]

*Depth* Support Activities
Such support activities are broader in scope and encompass the efficient and effective sustainment of equipment throughout its useful life as well as the enhancement of its capabilities and the improvement
of its reliability. Such activities have a greater focus on efficiency and include the follow ing, all of which will be far less frequent than Forward Support Activities but will consume significant time and resources and may require special skills and equipment:
- Scheduled maintenance (including bay maintenance, reconditioning and overhaul)
- Major unscheduled corrective maintenance
- Modification and conversion