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ORGANIZATION

15-102. The inform and influence section consists of a chief (the deputy G-7), an operations and targeting officer, and a senior military information support operations noncommissioned officer.

TASKS

15-103. The inform and influence section integrates and synchronizes activities to ensure themes and messages designed to inform domestic audiences and influence foreign friendly, neutral, adversary, and enemy populations support full spectrum operations. The section provides direction and ensures integration of all components and enablers into the inform and influence activities plans, programs, and policies within the AO.

G-9 OPERATIONS SECTION

15-104. Paragraphs 15-105 through 15-107 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the G-9 (civil affairs) operations section.

MISSION

15-105. The civil affairs operations section engages and influences the civil populace within the CCP’s AO

by executing and assessing civil affairs and civil-military operations.

ORGANIZATION

15-106. The civil affairs operations section consists of the deputy G-9, one civil affairs operations officer, and two civil affairs operations noncommissioned officers.

TASKS

15-107. The civil affairs operations section coordinates, synchronizes, and integrates the CCP’s civil affairs and civil military plans, programs, and policies with strategic and operational objectives and interagency partners. The section provides relevant civil component information to the commander’s common operational picture to assist the staff and commander in planning, preparing, and executing operations. The section provides politico-military support to other government agencies, host nations, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations by coordinating and integrating joint, interagency, and multinational support into CCP operations.

G-6 SECTION AND OPERATIONS ELEMENT

15-108. Paragraphs 15-109 through 15-111 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the G-6

(assistant chief of staff, signal) section and operations element.

MISSION

15-109. The G-6 section and operations element coordinates, synchronizes, and protects CCP information systems and integrates functional systems into the network architecture.

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ORGANIZATION

15-110. The G-6 section and operations element consists of a chief, a senior network operations noncommissioned officer, and an electromagnetic spectrum manager.

TASKS AND FUNCTIONS

15-111. The G-6 section and operations element coordinates, synchronizes, and directs CCP G-6

operations. The element supports reception, staging, onward movement, and integration for multinational, joint, and land forces by conducting coordination with host nation communications authorities and by integrating G-6 signal support for sites designated by the geographic combatant commander. It communicates network status and manages signal resources within the AO. The element continually assesses the CCP’s ability to meet battle command and information exchange requirements. It manages contingency spectrum operations within the AO and AO network directories (video teleconferencing, telephone, SECRET Internet Protocol Router, Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router, coalition, and Internet).

INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT ELEMENT

15-112. Paragraphs 15-113 through 15-115 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the information systems management element.

MISSION

15-113. The information systems management element integrates, operates, and manages theater army and joint information and collaborative planning systems in the CCP.

ORGANIZATION

15-114. The information systems management element consists of the headquarters, command post support, and joint and coalition network elements.

TASKS AND FUNCTIONS

15-115. The information systems management element provides staff oversight of computer network defense and manages network directories (video teleconferencing, telephone, SECRET Internet Protocol Router, Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router, and Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System). It integrates joint and Army functional systems into the AO network architecture, and it provides management of wireless devices within the CCP. Wireless devices include cellular and satellite based phones, and commercial off-the-shelf hand-held radios. This element consists of personnel from the joint and coalition network section, and it is present only if the CCP deploys.

COMMAND POST SUPPORT ELEMENT

15-116. Paragraphs 15-117 through 15-119 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the command post support element.

MISSION

15-117. The command post support element installs, operates, maintains, and protects CCP information systems and networks.

ORGANIZATION

15-118. The command post support element consists of a chief, two noncommissioned officers, and two junior enlisted Soldiers.

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TASKS AND FUNCTIONS

15-119. The command post support element installs, operates, and maintains video teleconferencing services, administers video teleconferencing scheduling, and assists with other teleconferencing requirements for the CCP. It installs, operates, and maintains networks in support of user owned and operated terminals for the CCP. The element implements automation policies and procedures and provides troubleshooting of services for the theater army CCP. It provides telephone and data directory support to the CCP. The element coordinates and synchronizes land mobile radio use within the CCP AO. If the CCP

deploys, the MCP’s headquarters support section staffs this element.

JOINT AND COALITION NETWORK ELEMENT

15-120. Paragraphs 15-121 through 15-123 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the CCP joint and coalition network element.

MISSION

15-121. The CCP joint and coalition network element integrates, operates, and manages AO, joint, and multinational information and collaboration systems in the CCP.

ORGANIZATION

15-122. The CCP joint and coalition network element consists of a chief and four noncommissioned officers.

TASKS AND FUNCTIONS

15-123. The CCP joint and coalition network element plans and coordinates management of joint functional computer systems, and manages, administers, and maintains desktop visual information equipment and systems. It installs and manages joint battle command systems and joint functional systems.

The element develops and maintains concept of operations for coalition network systems information exchange. The element manages, administers, and maintains Web sites and plans, administers, and maintains Army Battle Command System programs for the CCP. The element executes information assurance tasks for joint and Army Battle Command Systems within the CCP. The element administers joint, Army, and coalition information systems, to include sustainment, for the CCP.

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Theater Army Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion

Command and Staff Organization

16-1. The headquarters and headquarters battalion commander and staff, with support from the three companies, assist the theater army commander and staff in the in the areas of administration, logistics, deployment, redeployment, life support area establishment, command post operations, and area security coordination. Figure 16-1 depicts the theater army 5.4 headquarters and headquarters battalion command and staff. (This organization is in accordance with design, not the modified table of organization and equipment or the Table of Distribution and Allowance.) The headquarters and headquarters battalion receives direction from the theater army chief of staff. The headquarters and headquarters battalion consists of a command group, a personnel staff officer (S-1) section, an intelligence and operations staff officer (S-2

and S-3) section, a logistics staff officer (S-4) section, unit ministry teams, the headquarters support company, the operations company, and the intelligence and sustainment company. The headquarters and headquarters battalion provides 24/7 mess, medical, and maintenance support to contingency command post (CCP) operations.

Figure 16-1. Theater army 5.4 headquarters and headquarters battalion organization COMMAND GROUP

16-2. Paragraphs 16-3 through 16-5 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the headquarters and headquarters battalion command group.

MISSION

16-3. The headquarters and headquarters battalion command group provides mission command for the battalion staff and assigned or attached units.

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ORGANIZATION

16-4. The headquarters and headquarters battalion command group consists of four personnel: the commander, the battalion executive officer, the battalion command sergeant major, and a driver.

TASKS

16-5. The headquarters and headquarters battalion command group deploys selected sections and elements to support the CCP while it is deployed. It directs, controls, and supervises command post support operations.

S-1 SECTION

16-6. Paragraphs 16-7 through 16-9 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the S-1 section.

Mission

16-7. The S-1 section provides administrative and personnel support to all organic, assigned, or attached personnel within the theater army headquarters.

Organization

16-8. The S-1 section consists of eight personnel: one officer, one warrant officer, and six noncommissioned officers.

Tasks

16-9. The S-1 section plans, coordinates, and executes human resource support for organic, assigned, or attached personnel. It monitors personnel strength and projects future personnel requirements. The section provides human resource policy, information, and support for organic, assigned, or attached personnel. The section performs personnel accounting and strength reporting, assigns personnel, and initiates personnel actions. It performs additional tasks to include, but not limited to, awards, promotions, officer and enlisted evaluation reports, and military pay input for personnel. The section manages Uniform Code of Military Justice functions and assists the commander with disposition of offenses. The section manages the identification card system and updates the Defense Eligibility Enrollment Reporting System and the Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System database. The section manages personnel databases such as Personnel Status Report, Deployed Theater Accountability, and Electronic Military Personnel Office. Defense Eligibility Enrollment Reporting System and the Real-time Automated Personnel Identification Systems personnel are cross-trained to synchronize personnel management activities.

S-2 AND S-3 SECTION

16-10. Paragraphs 16-11 through 16-13 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the S-2 and S-3

section.

MISSION

16-11. The S-2 and S-3 section plans sustainment missions to meet CCP deployment requirements.

ORGANIZATION

16-12. The S-2 and S-3 section consists of two officers, four noncommissioned officers, and one junior enlisted person.

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16-13. The S-2 and S-3 section plans, prepares, executes, and assesses sustainment support operations for organic, assigned, or attached units. The section acts as a coordination hub by monitoring operations and planning, preparing, and publishing plans and orders. The section coordinates communications equipment repair. The section monitors current operations to anticipate and adjust future planning requirements for life support, command post displacement, deployment, redeployment, and command post defense requirements.

The section plans, coordinates, resources, evaluates, and maintains training programs. The section manages and disseminates intelligence products. It manages security clearance, physical security, and access control operations.

S-4 SECTION

16-14. Paragraphs 16-15 through 16-17 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the S-4 section.

MISSION

16-15. The S-4 section provides technical supervision and assistance for food, property accountability, maintenance management, and deployment planning for organic, assigned, or attached units.

ORGANIZATION

16-16. The S-4 section consists of an officer, a warrant officer, three noncommissioned officers, and two junior enlisted personnel.

TASKS

16-17. The S-4 section provides logistics support to organic, assigned, or attached units. It develops and inspects CCP unit movement plans. It maintains organizational property books, and it coordinates with the directorate of logistics for nontactical and General Services Administration fleet vehicle support. It establishes and maintains the life support area for the CCP. The section manages the following supply classes for the battalion: I, II, III, IV, V, VII, and limited IX.

CHAPLAIN UNIT MINISTRY TEAM

16-18. Paragraphs 16-19 through 16-21 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the chaplain unit ministry team.

MISSION

16-19. The chaplain unit ministry team provides religious support to Soldiers, families, and civilians and advises the command team regarding relevant issues and their impact on operations. When deployed with the CCP, the unit ministry team provides staff supervision of religious support throughout the operational area as the theater army chaplain's forward representative.

ORGANIZATION

16-20. The chaplain unit ministry team consists of an officer and a noncommissioned officer.

TASKS

16-21. The chaplain unit ministry team provides theater army personnel with pastoral care, personal counseling, advice, and privileged communication. The chaplain serves as a personal staff officer to the headquarters and headquarters battalion commander. The unit ministry team advises the command on troop and unit morale, quality of life, free exercise of religion, ethical decisionmaking, and the impact of religion on operations. The unit ministry team develops, implements, coordinates, and tracks religious support operations. The team conducts religious leader liaison at the direction of the commander and in support of the command’s key leader engagement strategy. The team coordinates and provides religious ministry 12 October 2011

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support for denominational coverage, religious retreats, memorial services, and hospitalized members of the battalion. The team coordinates with the theater army command chaplain to provide ministry for mass casualties. The main command post unit ministry team tasks a unit ministry team within the command to provide religious support to the CCP, when deployed. The CCP unit ministry team receives regular reports from subordinate unit ministry teams and provides reports to the theater army chaplain. The CCP unit ministry team is dependent on the main command post for reach-back capabilities.

HEADQUARTERS SUPPORT COMPANY

16-22. Paragraphs 16-23 through 16-25 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the headquarters support company.

MISSION

16-23. The headquarters support company provides administrative and logistical support to the CCP when deployed.

ORGANIZATION

16-24. The headquarters support company consists of four officers and twenty-one junior enlisted personnel organized into a maintenance section, a field feeding section, a medical treatment team, and a unit ministry team.

TASKS

16-25. The headquarters support company provides administrative and logistic support to the CCP when deployed. The company provides essential personnel, maintenance, medical, religious support, and supply services to include training for organic, assigned, or attached personnel. The company maintains arms, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN), and supply rooms to support training and maintenance of equipment and facilities. Examples of support include daily accountability, strength reporting, leave and pass, awards, preventive maintenance checks and services programs, and CBRN and marksmanship training.

HEADQUARTERS SUPPORT COMPANY MAINTENANCE SECTION

16-26. Paragraphs 16-27 through 16-29 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the headquarters support company maintenance section.

MISSION

16-27. The headquarters support company maintenance section provides maintenance for vehicles, trailers, power generation, and decontamination equipment assigned to the headquarters and headquarters battalion and theater army headquarters.

ORGANIZATION

16-28. The headquarters support company maintenance section consists of four noncommissioned officers and four junior enlisted personnel.

TASKS

16-29. The headquarters support company maintenance section manages the unit’s maintenance program for organic, assigned, or attached vehicles, power generators, and environmental control units. It performs organizational level maintenance and assists in operator level maintenance. The section manages the unit’s motorpool in the field and garrison.

HEADQUARTERS SUPPORT COMPANY FIELD FEEDING SECTION

16-30. Paragraphs 16-31 through 16-33 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the headquarters support company field feeding section.

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16-31. The headquarters support company field feeding section provides food service for organic, assigned, or attached personnel.

ORGANIZATION

16-32. The headquarters support company field feeding section consists of two noncommissioned officers and two junior enlisted personnel.

TASKS

16-33. The headquarters support company field feeding section provides field feeding support personnel to the CCP when deployed. It submits contract line item ration requests through the headquarters and headquarters battalion S-4. The section augments the local dining facility when not deployed with the CCP.

HEADQUARTERS SUPPORT COMPANY MEDICAL TREATMENT

TEAM

16-34. Paragraphs 16-35 through 16-37 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the headquarters support company medical treatment team.

MISSION

16-35. The headquarters support company medical treatment team provides emergency medical treatment and limited ground ambulance medical evacuation support to the CCP.

ORGANIZATION

16-36. The headquarters support company medical treatment team consists of an officer, a noncommissioned officer, and two junior enlisted personnel.

TASKS

16-37. The headquarters support company medical treatment team provides health service support and force health protection to organic, assigned, or attached personnel. The team completes the medical portion of Soldier readiness processing in preparation for CCP deployment. The team conducts sick call services, medical surveillance, and preventive medicine support to CCP personnel while deployed. The team augments the local medical facility when the CCP is not deployed.

OPERATIONS COMPANY

16-38. Paragraphs 16-39 through 16-41 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the operations company.

MISSION

16-39. The operations company provides administrative and logistical support to organic, assigned, or attached personnel.

ORGANIZATION

16-40. The operations company consists of two officers, four noncommissioned officers, and one junior enlisted person.

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TASKS

16-41. The operations company provides administrative, logistical, and training support to personnel from the G-3 (assistant chief of staff, operations), G-6 (assistant chief of staff, signal), G-7 (assistant chief of staff, inform and influence activities), G-9 (assistant chief of staff, civil affairs operations) sections and the fires and protection cells assigned to the CCP. Examples of support include leave and pass, awards, preventive maintenance checks and services programs, and CBRN and marksmanship training. The company maintains arms, CBRN, and supply rooms to support training and maintenance of equipment and facilities.

INTELLIGENCE AND SUSTAINMENT COMPANY

16-42. Paragraphs 16-43 through 16-45 discuss the mission, organization, and tasks of the intelligence and sustainment company.

MISSION

16-43. The intelligence and sustainment company provides administrative and logistical support to organic, assigned, or attached personnel.

ORGANIZATION

16-44. The intelligence and sustainment company consists of two officers, four noncommissioned officers, and one junior enlisted person.

TASKS

16-45. The intelligence and sustainment company provides administrative, logistical, and training support to personnel from the G-1 (assistant chief of staff, personnel), G-2 (assistant chief of staff, intelligence), G-4 (assistant chief of staff, logistics), G-8 (assistant chief of staff, resource management), surgeon sections, and the engineer element. Examples of support include leave and pass, awards, preventive maintenance checks and services programs, and CBRN and marksmanship training. The company maintains arms, CBRN, and supply rooms to support training and maintenance of equipment and facilities.

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Appendix

Command and Support Relationships

Command and support relationships provide the basis for unity of command and

unity of effort in operations. Command relationships affect Army force generation,

force tailoring, and task organization. Commanders use Army support relationships

when task-organizing Army forces. All command and support relationships fall

within the framework of joint doctrine. Joint Publication (JP) 1 discusses joint

command relationships and authorities.

CHAIN OF COMMAND RELATIONSHIPS

A-1. The President and Secretary of Defense exercise authority and control of the armed forces through two distinct branches of the chain of command. One branch runs from the President, through the Secretary of Defense, to the combatant commanders for missions and forces assigned to combatant commands. The other branch runs from the President through the Secretary of Defense to the secretaries of the military departments. The latter branch serves other purposes than providing operational direction to combatant command assigned forces. Each military department operates under the authority, direction, and control of the secretary of that military department. These secretaries exercise authority through their respective Service chiefs over Service forces not assigned to combatant commanders. The Service chiefs, except as otherwise prescribed by law, perform their duties under the authority, direction, and control of the secretaries to whom they are directly responsible.

A-2. The typical operational chain of command extends from the combatant commander to a joint task force commander, then to a functional component commander, or a Service component commander. Joint task forces and functional component commands, such as a land component command, comprise forces that are normally subordinate to a Service component command but have been placed under the operational control of the joint task force, and subsequently to a functional component commander. Conversely, the combatant commander may designate one of the Service component commanders as the joint task force commander or as a functional component commander. In some cases, the combatant commander may not establish a joint task force, retaining operational control over subordinate functional commands and Service components directly.

A-3. Under joint doctrine, each joint force includes a Service component command that provides administrative and logistic support to Service forces under operational control of that joint force. However, Army doctrine distinguishes between the Army component of a combatant command and Army components of subordinate joint forces. Under Army doctrine, the theater army is assigned to a combatant command. There is only one theater army within a combatant command's area of responsibility.

A-4. The Secretary of the Army directs the flow of administrative control. Administrative control for Army units within a combatant command normally extends from the Secretary of the Army through the theater army, through an Army force, and then to Army units assigned or attached to an Army headquarters within that joint command. However, administrative control is not tied to the operational chain of command. The Secretary of the Army may redirect some or all Service responsibilities outside the normal theater army channels. In similar fashion, the theater army may distribute some administrative responsibilities outside the Army force. Their primary considerations are the effectiveness of Army forces and the care of Soldiers.

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL

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