text: Security Operations
  INTEGRATION OF GROUND AND ARMY AVIATION OPERATIONS
  13-32. Integrating ground and Army aviation operations is critical to the successful performance of security
  tasks. Aviation units and systems, including rotary-, fixed-wing, and UAS can conduct reconnaissance of the
  security area while the ground element of the security force moves forward. They can perform these tasks:
  * Screen beyond the location of the security force (front, flank, or rear).
  * Conduct reconnaissance of areas between ground maneuver units.
  * Assist in maintaining contact between the security force and the main body.
  * Assist in clearing areas between flank security elements and their main body during the
  performance of moving flank security tasks.
  * Assist in disengaging security forces, especially when conducting battle handover and passage of
  lines with their main bodies.
  * Surveilling terrain that is hard to reach or would require too much time to cover with ground
  reconnaissance assets.
  ENGINEER PLANNING
  13-33. Countermobility plays a critical role in providing security. Security forces can maintain a mobility
  advantage over enemy forces by employing properly integrated obstacles. In the defense, units may initially
  mass engineer support in their security area and then shift support to their MBAs once their MBA units are
  prepared to begin developing engagement areas. They also enhance security force mobility by identifying
  alternate routes that allow them to reposition and task-organize engineers to provide breaching capabilities.
  Main body units determine the risk of prioritizing their countermobility efforts in their security areas rather
  than in their MBAs. In the offense, units can employ situational obstacles (covered by fire) on the flanks of
  an advancing force to provide additional security.
  SUSTAINMENT
  13-34. Main body staffs embed their security force sustainment requirements in the operation order and
  annexes. A key component in security force sustainment is developing, maintaining, and using SOPs.
  Sustainment requirements ensure that staffs include their security force requirements in their sustainment
  rehearsals.
  13-35. Security force units designate an individual or element in their security force who is responsible for
  sustaining their force. They also designate individuals and elements who coordinate for sustainment support.
  This is normally a senior noncommissioned officer in platoons and companies (or troops) assigned to perform
  security tasks. For example, the platoon sergeant of a scout platoon establishing a flank screen for a battalion
  task force may have to coordinate with the first sergeant of the adjacent company team to ensure sustainment
  of the scout platoon. Likewise, the first sergeant or executive officer of a cavalry troop accomplishing a
  screening mission away from the rest of the cavalry squadron may coordinate directly with the BCT logistics
  staff officer or the forward support company of the maneuver battalion closest to the troop’s assigned area
  and the brigade support battalion staff for resupply and medical treatment. This individual requires access to
  the appropriate communications networks to coordinate logistics support and medical evacuation.
  13-36. The individual responsible for sustaining the security force coordinates with the appropriate
  supporting sustainment points of contact as soon as possible after receiving the mission warning order. The
  security force commander gives the exact sustainment requirements for the security force—including any
  specialized items of supply required by the mission, such as cratering charges—to the supporting sustainment
  organization. Security force units ensure that the supporting sustainment organization establishes
  communication links with the security force and receives a copy of the supported security force’s sustainment
  overlay or concept of sustainment.
  13-37. Units place special attention on treating and evacuating casualties for security forces operating away
  from normal medical support because of time, terrain, or distance factors, or a need for the security force to
  remain undetected by enemy forces. For this reason, the security force should include as many Soldiers
  trained as combat lifesavers as possible. The more combat lifesavers in the security force, the more prepared