text: *FM 3-04
  Field Manual Headquarters
  Department of the Army
  No. 3-04
  Washington, DC, 06 April 2020
  Army Aviation
  Contents
  Page
  PREFACE................................................................................................................... vii
  INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... ix
  Chapter 1 ARMY AVIATION’S ROLE IN UNIFIED LAND OPERATIONS ............................... 1-1
  Section I – Unified Land Operations ...................................................................... 1-1
  Section II – Challenges for Army Aviation ............................................................ 1-1
  Section III – Core Competencies of Army Aviation .............................................. 1-2
  Provide Accurate and Timely Information Collection ................................................ 1-3
  Provide Reaction Time and Maneuver Space ........................................................... 1-3
  Destroy, Defeat, Disrupt, Divert, or Delay Enemy Forces ......................................... 1-4
  Air Assault Ground Maneuver Forces ....................................................................... 1-4
  Air Movement of Personnel, Equipment, and Supplies ............................................. 1-5
  Evacuate Wounded or Recover Isolated Personnel ................................................. 1-6
  Enable Command and Control over Extended Ranges and Complex Terrain ......... 1-7
  Section IV – Army Aviation in the Operational Framework................................. 1-7
  Area of Operations .................................................................................................... 1-7
  Close, Deep, Support, and Consolidation Areas ....................................................... 1-8
  Decisive, Shaping, and Sustaining Operations ....................................................... 1-10
  Main and Supporting Efforts .................................................................................... 1-10
  Section V – Operational Environment ................................................................. 1-10
  Threat ...................................................................................................................... 1-11
  Multi-Domain Extended Battlefield .......................................................................... 1-14
  Section VI – Aviation in Deception Planning ...................................................... 1-20
  Chapter 2 ARMY AVIATION ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMAND AND CONTROL ............. 2-1
  Section I – Operational Framework ....................................................................... 2-1
  Section II – Aviation Brigades ................................................................................ 2-2
  Combat Aviation Brigade ........................................................................................... 2-2
  Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade .................................................................... 2-3
  Theater Aviation Brigade ........................................................................................... 2-4
  Section III – Enabling Aviation Groups ................................................................. 2-6
  Theater Airfield Operations Group ............................................................................ 2-6
  Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group .................................................. 2-7
  DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
  *This publication supersedes FM 3-04, dated 29 July 2015.