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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: What does a Comm center need?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 01:20:58 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

> From: efrethei@afit.af.mil (News System Account)
> MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman) writes:
 
> >This brings up the question of what is needed for a command and control
> >center. 

   Radios, telephones, maps, acetate, grease pencils, spot report forms,
   unit SOP, and coffee pot.

   A mech/armor brigade command post operates out of a number of M577
   command carriers (sorta like a stretched up M113 APC).  Instead of
   troop seats - it's got radio racks on the left and map boards on the
   right and the staff can stand up and work inside.

   The 'normal' brigade CP consists of about 4 M577 command tracks.
   one each for intelligence, operations, fire support and engineer.
   Each track carries a 'field desk' full of all the necessary SOPs,
   and forms - radio instructions etc - all kinds of radios and spares,
   antennas up the ying-yang - canvas, light sets, coffe pots, heaters,
   cable, wire, and a generator to power it all.  Inside this "Main CP"
   also sit the Air Force ALO (Air Liaison Officer) talking to the fighter
   pilots and/or forward air controller, the supporting combat aviation
   company's liaison (called a 'battle captain') and numerous lieutenants
   from subordinate/attached units acting as LNOs (liaison officers) 
   anxiously awaiting to courier orders/instructions to their own units.

   Most brigades function with this 'large' complex as their "Main CP" -
   5-6km from their forward deployed battalions.  Then they set up a
   "Tactical CP" with one M577 about 1km from the battalions.  The Tac CP
   has radios and one staff officer from each - operations, intelligence,
   and fire support.  The theory is - the Tac CP "fights today's battle"
   in direct radio communication with fire and manuever elements.  The
   Main CP "plans for tomorrow's battle" and communicates with "higher"
   (division).
   battle"
 
> Whenever I set up my comm centers I make sure that the radios are as far 
> away from me as possible (1-2 kilometers or so).  

  You're right, whenever the Air Force was with our CP we made sure your
  radios were far away from us = hi-powered MRC-106 HF transmitters. 


  mike schmitt
 


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