text: _________________________________________________________________________________Chapter 7
  • Permit fire support assets to mass their effects without having to oper-
  ate in concentrated formations.
  • Ensure the optimal fire support asset(s) are assigned any given mission.
  • Ensure the commander’s priorities for fire support are adhered to.
  • Act, if necessary, as the organization’s alternate command structure.
  • Integrate the effects of fires from units placed in support of the organi-
  zation.
  7-19. The number and type of fire support and RISTA units allocated to an
  IFC is mission dependent. The IFC is not organized according to a table of
  organization and equipment, but is task organized to accomplish the missions
  assigned.
  7-20. In addition to constituent or dedicated assets that become part of its
  IFC, an OSC can receive fire support and/or RISTA assets allocated to it from
  national or theater level in a supporting relationship. In that case, the OSC or its
  IFC commander can position those assets and give them mission priorities, but
  the supporting assets would still be commanded by their parent organization.
  FIRE SUPPORT COORDINATION CENTER
  7-21. A fire support coordination center (FSCC) is established at each
  organizational level (maneuver battalion to IFC). The FSCC is the staff
  element responsible for the planning and coordination of fires to support
  the respective maneuver unit. It performs the following coordination functions:
  • Acquire and identify high-payoff targets (HPTs).
  • Recommend targets.
  • Use target value analysis to identify target priorities.
  • Determine fire support needs.
  • Expedite fire support.
  • Assess fire support effects.
  • Change fire support plans.
  • Coordinate the timing of fire support attacks (to include IW).
  • Recommend the use of aviation.
  SUPPORTING MANEUVER COMMANDERS’ FIRE REQUESTS
  7-22. Requests for supporting fires may originate at any organizational level.
  They are initiated when constituent or dedicated fire support means at that
  level are fully engaged, when the range of the target exceeds the constituent
  or dedicated fire support means, or when the constituent or dedicated fire
  support means have suffered combat loss. There are two methods of request-
  ing supporting fires. The preferred method is for the request to be forwarded
  from the division or DTG commander to the integrated fires subsection in the
  OSC headquarters. An alternate method is for the division or DTG com-
  mander to request supporting fires from the OSC commander. The OSC
  commander either approves or denies the request. If the request is approved,
  the OSC commander tasks the IFC to provide the requested support.