text: Chapter 4
  Team Operations
  The success of LRS operations depends on thorough planning, acquisition of ISR
  tasks and RFIs, rapid and timely reporting, and avoidance of detection.
  LRS teams collect critical information for the BFSB commander in support of
  division commanders' PIR. Answers to the PIR directly affect the commander's
  decision-making and dictate the successful execution of military operations. This
  chapter discusses the following aspects of LRS team operations:
  Phases (Section I)
  Reconnaissance operations (Section II)
  Surveillance operations (Section III)
  Combat assessment (Section IV)
  Target acquisition (Section V)
  Urban terrain (Section VI)
  Imagery collection and transmission (Section VII)
  Stability operations (Section VIII)
  Special missions (Section IX)
  Section I. PHASES
  LRS team operations have five distinct phases--planning, infiltrating/inserting, executing (actions on the
  objective), exfiltrating/extracting, and recovering. Controlling or supporting deployed teams can overlap into
  more than one phase.
  PLANNING PHASE
  4-1. Detailed planning at all levels helps ensure mission success and team survival. The planning
  phase starts when the commander receives the mission folder from the BFSB S-2 ISR fusion element. It
  extends throughout the final inspection of the LRS team.
  SEQUENCE
  4-2. In most cases, the commander, XO, first sergeant, and operations personnel participate in the
  initial S-2 planning. To ensure the LRS team completes each of its planning tasks, the team follows a
  detailed timeline.
  Type of Planning
  4-3. The length of time available determines whether the team conducts deliberate or hasty planning.
  Deliberate Planning (24 to 48 hours available for planning).
  Hasty Planning (less than 24 hours available for planning).
  Required Planning Events
  4-4. The LRS team should cover the following events in each planning sequence, regardless of
  time available:
  • Alert notification.
  • N-Hour planning sequence (the sequence followed before deployment).
  • H-Hour sequence (the deployment sequence).