text: Chapter 1
  PRIMARY MISSIONS
  1-14. LRSCs perform the following four primary missions:
  • Surveillance.
  • Zone and area reconnaissance.
  • Target acquisition.
  • Target interdiction.
  1-15. Combat assessment, and its subcomponent battle damage assessment, is not a stand-alone LRSU
  mission. It is an inherent capability in all LRSU missions (Chapter 4, Section IV).
  SECONDARY MISSIONS
  1-16. In addition to these primary missions, LRSU can perform the following secondary missions, given
  time, training resources, additional personnel and equipment:
  • Route reconnaissance.
  • Emplacement and recovery of sensors.
  • Pathfinder operations.
  • Personnel recovery (PR) and combat search and rescue (CSAR).
  • Chemical detection and radiological surveillance and monitoring operations.
  Note: Providing security for other units is outside the range of a doctrinal or
  organizationally supported LRSU mission. LRS teams are lightly armed and lack organic
  automatic weapons necessary for defense and escort missions. In addition, LRS teams are
  limited-in-number and should only be used for the stated purpose of combat
  information-gathering.
  COMPARISON TO SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES
  1-17. LRSU are not SOF, although they share many of the same tactics, techniques, procedures, terms,
  equipment, and organizational structure. Similarly, scouts and cavalry units are not LRSU but also share
  many TTPs and equipment. The clearest distinction between these units is who they work for and where
  they operate on the battlefield:
  Strategic Level--SOF, including Army Special Forces, when assigned a special reconnaissance
  mission, generally operate at the strategic level.
  Operational Level--LRSU generally operate at the operational level.
  Tactical Level--Scouts and cavalry units generally operate at the tactical level.
  ORGANIZATION
  1-18. The LRSC has one organizational structure. The total active force structure will consist of
  six LRS companies with 90 LRS teams. The reserve component also has six LRSC with 90 LRS teams
  (Figure 1-1).