text: The Army Engineer
  * Engineer support priorities.
  * LOCs.
  * Air base and airfield operations.
  * The theater basing strategy.
  * Joint targeting.
  * Foreign humanitarian assistance.
  * Environmental considerations.
  * Engineer interoperability.
  * Input to the rules of engagement.
  * Rules for the use of force.
  * Support to protection.
  * Explosive hazards mitigation and explosive remnants of war.
  Environmental issues can have strategic implications. They can also affect mission success and end
  states if the issues are not recognized early and incorporated into planning and operations. Environmental
  considerations may include input to the rules of engagement for targeting cultural sites, developing guidance
  for targeting industrial infrastructure, deciding which laws and treaties pertain to the environmental situation,
  and determining the level at which the military may conduct environmental remediation and restoration.
  Environmental baseline surveys, annual re-inspections, and base closeout surveys are vital to protecting
  Service members’ health and government liability for the remediation of issues not caused by U.S.
  government entities. Natural resource protection can be a key strategic mission objective and is important to
  HN reconstruction. The failure to recognize environmental hazards can result in significant risk to the JTF,
  adversely affecting readiness. If not appropriately addressed, environmental issues have the potential to
  negatively affect local community relations, affect insurgent activities, and create diplomatic problems for
  the JTF. See ATP 3-34.5 for environmental considerations.
  OPERATIONAL
  Engineer activities at the operational level focus on the impact of geography and force projection
  infrastructure on the CCDR operational design. Engineer planners must determine the basic (yet broad)
  mobilization, deployment, employment, and sustainment requirements of the CCDR concept of operations.
  Engineer planners must secure funding within authorities and plan for the procurement of Class IV supplies
  and services. Operational planning merges the operation plan (OPLAN) or OPORD of the joint force, specific
  engineer missions assigned, and available engineer forces to achieve success. Combatant command engineer
  planners also need to understand the capabilities and limitations of Service engineer forces.
  See JP 3-34 for a full explanation of Service capabilities, contributions, and limitations.
  Many of the engineer activities conducted for strategic operations are also performed at the operational
  level. Engineers conduct operational area and environmental assessments and work with intelligence staff to
  analyze the threat. Engineers anticipate requirements and request the capabilities to meet them. They provide
  the scheme of base camps, geospatial products and services, and recommendations on joint fires and
  survivability for the forces employed. (See ATP 3-37.10 for additional information on base camps.) As the
  link to tactical engineer integration, operational planners set the conditions for success at the tactical level by
  anticipating requirements and ensuring that capabilities are available to accomplish engineer support
  requirements. An example of this includes field forces that are assigned to the operational Army (FESTs,
  multirole bridge companies, engineer construction companies, prime power teams, additional engineer
  brigades).
  Engineer staff officers assigned to the United States Army Special Operations Command or the 1st
  Special Forces Command are responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing engineer support.
  Engineers at this echelon provide policy and direction in the aspects of engineering, to include coordination
  for engineer support from conventional forces. Due to the nature, scope, and remote environments in which
  special operations forces operate, theater infrastructure is not always available. Despite recent increases in
  special operations force structure, conventional force engineers across the three disciplines are capable of
  providing additional engineer support. Requests for conventional engineers at this level could be to support
  special operations in core activities—ranging from augmenting special operation forces in training exercises