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  Table 2-3. CBRN mission planning and capabilities
  Organization Mission Planning Capabilities
  One per 2-6 • Command and control and supervision of
  CBRN/CBRNE personnel assigned to the CBRN battalion and
  Companies up to six CBRN/CBRNE companies.
  • Operation of a battalion main command post.
  • Staff planning and sustainment coordination
  CBRN battalion with the CBRN staff within the brigade, division,
  Corps, or Theater Army sector.
  • Assessment of task-organized unit capabilities,
  utilization, and impacts on plans and
  operations to the brigade, division, corps, and
  Theater Army AO.
  • 1 per BCT
  • Company HQ:
  • 1 per division
   Command and control and supervision of
  personnel assigned to the company.
   Staff planning, sustainment coordination
  and assessment of task-organized unit.
  Capabilities, utilization, and impacts on
  plans and operations with CBRN staff
  within brigade, division, corps, or theater
  Army sector.
   Allocation of task-organized units and
  resources in support of CBRN
  reconnaissance, surveillance,
  decontamination and WMD elimination
  operations throughout the theater of
  operations.
  • 1 per BCT • Reconnaissance and Surveillance Platoon:
  CBRN company (hazard • 1 per division  Detects and identifies CBRN hazards.
  response)  Provides early warning of contamination for
  supported units.
   Ability to locate, identify, marks and report
  contaminated areas and identify bypass
  routes.
   Collection and coordination for evacuation
  of CBRN environmental samples.
   Assesses hazards in support of site
  exploitation or CBRN response.
   Limited conventional reconnaissance when
  not in a CBRN contaminated environment.
  • Hazard Assessment Platoon X2:
   Detects and identifies CBRN hazards.
   Ability to locate, identify, mark and report
  contaminated areas.
  • Assess sites to confirm/deny presence of
  CBRN material.
  • Equipment and personnel decontamination.