text: Introduction
  task force; vertical envelopment, organizational roles, functions, capabilities, and
  limitations; and responsibilities for the brigade combat team and its subordinate units
  within the assault force during airborne and air assault operations. A summary of key
  constructs to FM 3-99 follows:
  (cid:120) Operational access—forcible entry and vertical envelopment—within the operational
  environment.
  (cid:120) Task force organization, mission, capabilities, and limitations as well as the duties and
  responsibilitiesfortheconductofairborneandairassaultoperations.
  (cid:120) Task force command and staff operations; cross-functional staff organizations (cells, working
  groups,andcenters)toassistincoordination.
  (cid:120) Meetings, working groups, and boards to integrate the staff, enhance planning, and
  decisionmakingwithinthetaskforce.
  (cid:120) Airborneand airassaulttask forceunique capabilitiesandplanningconsiderationsintransitioning
  toothertacticaloperations.