text: Summary of Changes
  This manual provides a major update of FM 7-93, Long-Range Surveillance Unit Operations. Most
  significantly, this edition--
  • Introduces--
  —Full-spectrum operations.
  —Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Task Force concept.
  —BFSB staff elements that provide products and services in support of LRS operations.
  —R&S squadron units and staff elements that provide products and services in support of LRS
  operations.
  —Transformation High-Frequency Radio System (THFRS) as the interim replacement LRS team
  and base station radio system.
  —Automatic link establishment (ALE) in beyond line-of-sight LRSU communications.
  • Details--
  —The new Long-Range Surveillance Company (LRSC) organization organic to the
  Reconnaissance and Surveillance (R&S) Squadron of the Battlefield Surveillance Brigade
  (BFSB).
  —The deliberate planning methodology in context with the BFSB and R&S squadron
  organizations.
  —The requirements for the next generation of LRSU base radio stations.
  • Updates the chapters on—
  —Intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB, Chapter 7).
  —Evasion and recovery (E&R, Chapter 8).
  • Updates the chapters on—
  —Intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB, Chapter 7).
  —Evasion and recovery (E&R, Chapter 8).
  • Adds sections or paragraphs on—
  —Combat assessment (Chapter 4, Section IV).
  —Target acquisition (Chapter 4, Section V).
  —Urban operations (Chapter 6, Section VII).
  —Stability operations (Chapter 4, Section VIII).
  —Collection and transmission of imagery, to include digital photos (Chapter 4, Section VII).
  —Special missions (Chapter 4, Section IX).
  —Vehicle infiltration and exfiltration (Chapter 5, Section III).
  —Multiple LRS team and LRS detachment tactical operations (Chapter 4, Section III).
  • Adds appendixes on—
  —Planning area facilities and sites.
  —Army aviation coordination.
  • Expands—
  —The appendix on personnel recruitment, assessment, and selection procedures.
  —The explanations and examples of briefings that LRS teams may have to perform to gain
  approval for mission execution.
  —The purpose, contents and format for a LRSU mission planning folder (MPF), including the
  target folder.
  —The appendix on LRS team contingency planning.
  —The section on message formats.
  • Deletes all references to "isolation" or "isolation facility (ISOFAC)" and replaces these terms
  with "planning" and "planning facility." Isolation and ISOFAC are special operations forces
  terms and are not used by LRSU.