text: Cavalry Organizations and
  the Operational Environment
  * Personnel recovery.
  * Manage airspace users.
  * Minimal essential stability tasks.
  1-55. Assignment of an area of operations provides the squadron with the maneuver space necessary to
  execute its assigned mission. The BCT commander and staff ensure the squadron is task organized with
  sufficient assets to accomplish the squadron’s assigned mission.
  Figure 1-3. Squadron in its own area of operations
  Within BCT Deep Areas
  1-56. The squadron can also operate in BCT deep area. In noncontiguous areas of operations, the deep area
  is the area between noncontiguous areas of operations or beyond contiguous areas of operations. (Refer to
  ADP 3-0 for more information.) A commander’s deep area generally extends beyond subordinate units’
  boundaries out to the limits of the commander’s designated area of operations. The purpose of operations in
  the deep area often is tied to setting conditions for future events. The BCT commander may assign urban
  areas to maneuver battalions thus allowing them to focus on that area while the Cavalry squadron conducts
  operations in the open areas. The BCT may have deep areas due to—
  * A decision to accept risk due to a low threat level.
  * Areas not assigned to battalions are sparsely populated or the terrain is compartmentalized.
  * Insufficient combat power to assign all areas to subordinate battalions.
  1-57. The BCT is responsible for controlling deep areas within its area of operations. The BCT commander
  may direct the Cavalry squadron to operate in the deep area (see figure 1-4, page 1-14). Squadrons operating
  in the BCT deep area are not usually responsible for the entire deep area. The squadron in the deep area
  generally operates in one of the following ways:
  * In a contiguous portion of the unassigned area.
  * In multiple, noncontiguous area of operations within the unassigned area.
  * Within focused target areas of interest (TAIs) or named areas of interest (NAIs).