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Fire Support for Tactical Enabling and Other Tasks 1 March 2016 ATP 3-09.42 3-5 3-22. Fire support coordination and other control measures should be regularly reviewed by higher headquarters, posted on brigade support area (brigade special troops battalion or brigade engineer battalion) command post operations maps, entered into the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS), and then given to any supporting component forces and reaction forces. 3-23. Supporting field artillery and mortars must be positioned to support brigade support area operations. Coordinating the positioning of field artillery and mortars with the brigade special troops battalion or brigade engineer battalion S-3, battalion FSO and fires cell is necessary to avoid fratricide of brigade support area units and to avoid destruction of critical sustainment supplies should nearby field artillery and mortars units receive counterfire. This action also facilitates the ability of the brigade support area (brigade special troops battalion or brigade engineer battalion) command post to coordinate terrain management, movement control, and sustainment. 3-24. The fire support planners are responsible for continuously evaluating the fire support assets available for brigade support area operations. When fire support to the main effort and to shaping operations changes the status of fire support assets available to the brigade support battalion (BSB), the fire support planners must update this list. This enables effective fire support that can be quickly provided to counter a Level III threat or a Level II threat that cannot be defeated by base or base cluster forces or by the designated reaction force. 3-25. For more on brigade support area operations see FM 3-90-1. For more on BCT brigade support area operations see FM 3-96. For more on threat levels see JP 3-10. High-Value Asset Security 3-26. The increased number and relative importance of field artillery, aviation, communications, information collection, and target acquisition systems for BCT operations has led to increased emphasis on their security. The BCT can potentially have up to one-third of its ground combat power allocated to security missions. Examples of high value fire support-related assets that may require additional security include: Field artillery weapons systems and munitions. Weapon locating radars. BCT unmanned aircraft system sites. Division and corps unmanned aircraft systems. Patriot batteries. Air defense radars. Forward arming and refueling points. Enhanced position location reporting system nodes. Joint network node locations. Retransmission sites. 3-27. The BCT S-3, with input from the staff, develops an overlay that depicts all high-value assets in the BCT area of operations and ensures that overlay is distributed to subordinate commanders. The BCT S-3 assigns tasks for protection of high-value assets to subordinate commanders as an area security mission. The FSCOORD and fires cell planners recommend FSCMs and fire support asset positioning to support the protection of the high-value assets using considerations similar to those for brigade support area operations. See FM 3-96. FIRE SUPPORT CONSIDERATIONS FOR TROOP MOVEMENT 3-28. Troop movements include administrative movements, tactical road marches, approach marches, occupation of assembly areas and combat formations. See Army Doctrine Reference Publication (ADRP) 3-90 and FM 3-90-2 for additional information.