ATTACHMENTS
ATTACHMENTS
In accordance with ATP 3-21.10 company FIST headquarters personnel and platoon forward observers (FOs) plan and coordinate all available supporting fires, including mortars, field artillery, naval surface fire support, Army attack aviation, and Air Force CAS integration for the Infantry rifle company. Attached FIST provide precision targeting, type 2 and 3 terminal attack control, effects assessment capabilities, and the use of precision target location tools to establish accurate target location. Precision target tools include a targeting device or a precision targeting device, a forward entry device, and imagery based mensuration tools. FOs may have an optical device using a laser range finder for distance and an Azimuth Vertical Angle Module to acquire direction and vertical angle. Each FIST fire support vehicle, if provided, possesses a target acquisition and communications suite with the capability for laser range finding and designation for laser-guided munitions. FIST headquarters personnel attached to the Infantry rifle company normally include a company FSO, a staff sergeant as the fire support sergeant, a fire support specialist, and a radio telephone operator. Platoon FOs include three two-soldier teams, a FO and a radio telephone operator. FO teams can be attached to a rifle platoon or can be designated to observe a specific area. While the company commander is ultimately responsible for integrating fires in support of the scheme of maneuver; the company FSO serves as the commander principle advisor. On the basis of the company commander’s guidance and an understanding of the company’s scheme of maneuver, the FSO synchronizes fire support within the maneuver plan and presents the fire support plan to the commander for approval. Throughout the operations process the FSO continues to develop and refine the fire support plan based on the commander’s guidance and changes to the mission. The FSO’s duties include, but are not limited to the following responsibilities:
Advise the commander on all fire support matters.
Request, adjust, and direct all types of fire support assets.
Train the fire support team on fire support tasks.
Serve as the commander’s primary advisor on the enemy’s indirect fire capabilities.
Assist the commander with developing the operations order to ensure full integration of fires.
Recommend targets and fire support coordination measures.
Determine methods of engagement and responsibility for executing planned targets.
Determine the specific tasks and instructions required to plan and execute the fire support plan.
Develop an observation plan with limited visibility contingencies.
Allocate forward observers and other observers to maintain surveillance of target and named areas of interest.
Develop the fire support plan to include the generation of non-lethal effects, such as those generated by information operations (IO), with the company commander and the battalion firesupport officer.
Prepare the fire support plan execution matrix and disseminate to key personnel.
Assist the commander with briefing the fire support plan as part of the rifle company operations order.
In accordance with ATP 3-21.10 the basis of allocation for company level medical support is one senior combat medic at the company and one combat medic per maneuver platoon. (Note. Basis of allocation is designed to place medical treatment assets as close to the point of injury as possible.) The company’s senior combat medic generally collocates with the company trains and platoon medics generally collocate with the platoon headquarters element. The senior combat medic cares for the sick, injured, or wounded company personnel. Tactical combat casualty care performed by the senior combat medic may include opening an airway, starting intravenous fluids, controlling hemorrhage, preventing or treating for shock, splinting fractures or suspected fractures, and providing relief for pain. The senior combat medic performs tactical combat casualty care under the supervision of the battalion surgeon or physician’s assistant. Under the supervision of the company 1SG, directs and supervises to ensure medical assets remain flexible and responsive to tactical missions. The senior combat medic is responsible for:
Overseeing and providing guidance to each platoon medic as required.
Company level triage oversight.
Training personnel to evaluate ill, injured, or wounded friendly and enemy personnel for priority of treatment as they arrive at the company casualty collection point.
Overseeing sick call screening for the company.
Requesting and coordinating the evacuation of sick, injured, or wounded personnel under the direction of the company 1SG.
Assisting in first aid training of the company personnel and enhanced first aid procedures of combat lifesavers.
Recommending locations for company casualty collection points.
Providing guidance to the company’s combat lifesavers.
Monitoring the tactical situation and anticipating and coordinating health service support requirements and Class VIII resupply as necessary.
Advising the company commander, XO, and 1SG on mass casualty tasks.
Advising the company commander, XO, and 1SG on unit field sanitation issues.
Keeping the XO and 1SG informed on the status of casualties and medical resupply request.