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  • Coordinates tactical air support missions with the fire-support element and the appropriate
  Army airspace command and control (AC2) element.
  • Recommends intelligence requirements to the S-2 through the S-3.
  • Plans the simultaneous employment of air and surface fires.
  • Supervises forward air controllers (FACs).
  • Integrates air-support sorties with the BFSB's scheme of maneuver.
  • Participates in targeting meetings.
  • Serves as a member of the targeting cell.
  • In the absence of a FAC, assists the fire support officer (FSO) in directing air strikes.
  • Provides Air Force input into the AC2.
  Fires Cell
  2-22. The FC—
  • Develops and recommends surface targets to attack.
  • Employs fires to influence the will of and to destroy, neutralize, or suppress enemy forces.
  • Plans, coordinates, disseminates, and maintains fire support coordination measures.
  • Plans and requests CAS.
  • Coordinates clearance of fires.
  • Plans the employment of nonlethal fires.
  • Synchronizes fires within the BFSB AO.
  BFSB S-4 SECTION
  2-23. The S-4 is responsible for planning brigade sustainment. The S-4 is the link between the BFSB’s
  organic BSC and the theater support command for coordinating logistics support. Specific to LRSU
  operations, the S-4 is responsible for coordinating riggers in support of Airborne (static line, MFF and
  resupply) operations.
  RECONNAISSANCE AND SURVEILLANCE SQUADRON
  2-24. The R&S squadron is a multifunctional unit designed to collect and report information that
  answers the BFBS commander's critical information requirements (CCIR) and other information
  requirements (IR) using manned ground assets and small UAS. It can also acquire targets and, on a limited
  basis, interdict targets. The squadron has a headquarters and headquarters troop (HHT), one LRSC, and
  two mounted ground reconnaissance troops. It has long-range communications that allow it to operate
  dispersed and communicate throughout the division AO. The R&S squadron is designed to simultaneously
  employ the LRSC and the reconnaissance troops dispersed within the higher unit's AO. Except for its
  organic medical platoon, the R&S squadron depends on the BSC for all of its logistical support.
  HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS TROOP
  2-25. The R&S squadron HHT has organic elements specifically designed to support the employment of
  the LRSC: medics, forward observers (FOs), and the insertion and extraction section organic to the S-3
  section. These Soldiers are distinguished by special qualifications identifiers and additional skill identifiers
  (SQIs and ASIs) in the R&S squadron headquarters and headquarters troop's TOE.
  2-26. The combat medic section of the medical platoon has six Soldiers identified for direct support
  (DS) to the LRSC: the staff sergeant section NCO and five specialist medics. Each of these Soldiers is
  Airborne and special operations combat medic qualified, so they can support LRS team missions.