ATP-3-09-42 Fire Support for the Brigade Combat Team Download

Estimates, Plans, Orders and Annexes to Plans and Orders 1 March 2016 ATP 3-09.42 B-5 B-21. Scheme of Naval Fire Support. State the commander’s guidance on the employment of naval gunfire. Give mission statements for all ships providing support. List any instructions or restrictions that differ from those listed in the BCT’s standard operating procedures. B-22. Coordinating Instructions. Provide miscellaneous instructions that affect more than one field artillery unit such as revisions of missions, instructions on planning of fires, position areas, FSCMs (including the times they are in effect), high-payoff target list, attack guidance matrix, and the establishment of common grid to allow massing of fires. The brigade FSO and fires cell planners may use additional paragraphs as necessary to ensure any additional BCT fire support assets are properly addressed in the OPLAN or OPORD. B-23. Annex D (FIRES). If the fire support plan requires amplification that is too extensive for the scheme of fires subparagraph, the BCT fires cell may develop a fires annex to the BCT OPLAN or OPORD. The fire support plan may include reference to the field artillery battalion OPLAN or OPORD. An example fires annex is found later in this appendix. B-24. The fire support plan tells subordinate commanders what they need to do and know to accomplish their missions. It should not address items in standard operating procedures and should not include how-to- implement instructions to individual fire support units and staff. That type of information should be addressed in standard operating procedures or in implementing instructions issued after receipt of the fire support. Once the fire support plan is prepared, it is disseminated as a part of the BCT OPLAN or OPORD. Table B-1 shows the suggested dissemination for the fire support plan. Table B-2 shows the suggested distribution for fire support plans. Table B-1. Fire support plan dissemination Plan Level Copies Provided To Division and corps operations plan or operations order fire support plan Commander, corps and division intelligence officer and operations officer, chief of fires, supporting field artillery brigade, subordinate brigade combat teams, and other fire support means. Brigade combat team operations order fire support plan Commander, brigade combat team intelligence officer and operations officer, fire support coordinator, brigade fire support officer, subordinate and supporting units, cannon field artillery battalion, and other fire support representatives Table B-2. Suggested distribution of fire support plans PLAN Supported Maneuver Units Supporting Field Artillery Units Supporting USAF Units Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer and Supporting Ships Supporting Army Aviation Units Supporting Air and Missile Defense Units Supporting Ordnance Units Fire Support Plan R R R R R R D Fire Support Annex R R R R R R D Field Artillery battalion OPLAN, OPORD, or Field Artillery Support Plan D R D D D Air Support Plan D R D D Naval Surface Fire Support Plan D R Air and Missile Defense Support Plan D D D R R D – Discretionary OPLAN – operation plan USAF – United States Air Force R – Required OPORD – operation order