text: Support Area Operations
  Table 3-1. Support area responsibilities and supporting tasks (continued)
  Support Area Responsibilities Supporting Tasks
  Enable security (continued) • Group units into assembly areas, base camps and base
  clusters
  • Direct the employment and maneuver of the tactical
  combat force
  • Synchronize, integrate, and organize protection
  capabilities
  • Harden critical infrastructure and command and control
  nodes
  Conduct personnel recovery • Report
  • Locate
  • Support
  • Recover
  • Post isolation screening
  • Reintegrate
  Conduct airspace management • Synchronize use of airspace
  • Identify, coordinate, and integrate airspace users
  • Adhere to airspace control procedures and maintain
  contact with the appropriate airspace control element
  responsible for the volume of airspace above the brigade
  area of operations
  Conduct minimum-essential stability • Establish civil security
  tasks • Conduct security cooperation
  • Support to civil control
  • Restore essential services
  • Support to governance
  • Support to economic and infrastructure development
  Conduct mobility and countermobility • Conduct clearing (areas and routes)
  support • Improve line of communications roads and bridges
  • Construct and maintain combat roads and trails
  • Construct and maintain forward airfields and landing zones
  • Conduct traffic management and enforcement
  • Plan, prepare, and execute obstacles
  • Construct, emplace, or detonate obstacles
  • Mark, report, and record obstacles
  • Maintain obstacle integration and overwatch
  Rear command post integration • Provide signal connectivity
  • Provide sustainment support
  • Provide workspace
  • Provide security