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  external communications capabilities based on METT-TC. The S-6 oversees the brigade’s
  communications security accounts and equipment.
  * The special staff section provides the command with the necessary subject matter expertise to
  ensure medical, legal, public affairs, and spiritual unit readiness. The brigade surgeon provides
  medical treatment for the brigade. The brigade judge advocate section provides legal expertise
  pertaining to military, domestic, and international law. It provides advice on laws of armed
  conflict, interprets ROE, determines the legality of targets and plans, supervises the administration
  of military justice, and monitors treatment of captured and detained persons and refugees. The
  public affairs office section assists in conducting briefings for the media on brigade operations
  and ground rules for media coverage of those operations, reviews material scheduled for release
  to the media for operational security limitations or requirements, and provides guidance to new
  media personnel concerning field censorship procedures and guidelines. The unit ministry team
  provides religious support to all assigned, attached, or authorized personnel, to include ministry
  for mass casualties and hospitalized members. The team advises the commander on religious,
  ethical, morals, morale, and soldier welfare issues, and liaises with higher and adjacent unit
  ministry teams.
  * The battery headquarters, while not a staff section, provides C2, administrative, and logistical
  support for headquarters battery personnel.
  COMMAND AND CONTROL
  6-11. ADA brigades have the primary mission of linking subordinate ADA echelons to the kill chain. The
  brigade ADAFCO deploys to the appropriate joint C2 facility at which the RADC or SADC operates, and
  provides voice connectivity with subordinate ADA echelons for engagement operations. The brigade
  maintains operational control of its organic subordinate ADA units and any attached forces. It also maintains
  constant communications and coordination with the AMD element at corps and, when required by METT-
  TC, with the AMD element at division. The brigade C2 capabilities are provided by the AMDPCS, Patriot
  tactical planner, and THAAD portable planner. The AMDPCS gives the ADA brigade a limited capability to
  operate a FCE to direct subordinate C2 nodes. The AMDPCS provides the means to select and direct a
  subordinate C2 node to conduct an engagement, but cannot directly execute the engagement. The Patriot
  tactical planner provides a capability to create and test defense designs of Patriot forces. The THAAD
  portable planner provides the capability to design and evaluate THAAD defenses.
  6-12. Figure 6-1 on page 6-4 presents the nominal brigade control relationships. See ATP 3-01.7 for
  additional discussions of brigade C2.