text: Chapter 1
  of battle (OB), and practiced skill in identifying equipment to successfully execute missions.
  • Team members depend on the use of stealth, cover, concealment, and their Infantry and
  Ranger skills to remain undetected.
  • Team equipment and supplies include only what the team can man-pack or cache, if
  dismounted.
  CAPABILITIES
  1-40. Modular force LRSCs are fully self-mobile once deployed to the AO. The LRSC is not a modular
  unit but can deploy detachments as independent units if provided additional support. LRSC and LRSD can
  do the following:
  • Establish long-range digital communications using HF or UHF radio systems.
  • Transmit both voice and data.
  • Use planned or emergency resupply drops.
  1-41. LRS teams have additional capabilities:
  • Collect and transmit near-real-time digital imagery.
  • Operate in inclement weather and over difficult terrain.
  • Evade.
  • Use special equipment cache sites emplaced by the LRSU or other friendly forces.
  • Use captured supplies and equipment.
  • Demonstrate the “art of camouflage” by—
  —Blending in with units and formations who have already established a presence.
  —Using clandestine cameras and sensors.
  —Shadowing blinds and false walls.
  • Stay behind or infiltrate over land (dismounted or mounted), over water (small boat and
  underwater), or by air (rotary wing, static line parachute, or MFF).
  • Exfiltrate over land, water, or air; or link up with advancing friendly forces.
  • Operate with the use of organic ground mobility assets and, if resupply is available, conduct
  extended range and duration reconnaissance missions.
  • Conduct dismounted operations for up to seven days with little or no external direction and
  support.
  • Conduct operations in all types of terrain and environments.
  LIMITATIONS
  1-42. LRSU have the following limitations:
  • Neither the LRSC nor the LRSD are modular. Both require additional support in the areas of
  medical, fires, communications, rigging, logistics, intelligence, and operations planning in
  order to provide a full range of operational capability.
  • They lack organic medical capability. The LRSC depends on attached medics from the R&S
  squadron or on individual first aid. Ideally, LRS team members are certified emergency
  medical technicians (EMTs). At a minimum, each team member must be a qualified combat
  lifesaver (CLS).
  • They are lightly armed and have limited self-defense capabilities.