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Fire Support and the Operations Process 30 April 2020 FM 3-09 3-35 Initial FSCM recommendations. Command and support relationship recommendations. 3-84. Backbriefs should not be confused with confirmation briefs that commanders use immediately after issuing a plan to determine how well a subordinate commander understands the mission, task, and/or directive. It differs from a confirmation brief in that leaders are given time to complete their plan rather than briefing the commander immediately following receipt of an order. Typically, the confirmation brief occurs at the conclusion of the orders or OPLAN brief when all subordinate commanders are available. The commander adjourns the session only when they are confident their subordinates understand their mission, and assigned task and purpose, the commander's intent and the higher commander's intent, the concept of operation, scheme of maneuver, priorities, the time plan, and type and location of rehearsals. COMBINED ARMS REHEARSAL 3-85. The fire support plan must be integrated into the combined arms rehearsal. Key fire support personnel representing or supporting the fire support system at the combined arms include the FSCOORD, DFSCOORD, DIVARTY or FAB FSE, JAGIC personnel, BCT FSOs (as available), ADAM and brigade aviation element, ALO, weather officer, subordinate and supporting unit FSE representatives, SOF representative, targeting officers, chief of staff, FAB and DIVARTY S-2s, S-3s, S-4s, S-6s. Assigned and attached combined arms units that comprise or support the command will participate when possible. Normally, the chief of staff directs the rehearsal using a synchronization matrix or execution checklist; the FSCOORD or DFSCOORD, should use the fire support execution matrix. 3-86. Usually, the combined arms rehearsal takes place after the Joint Targeting Cycle and Army Targeting Process have commenced. Much of the FS Plan for the operation will be refined based on the ongoing Targeting Cycle to include HPTs, TAIs, ISR plan and allocation, AI nominations, CAS allocations, Priorities of Fire, FSCMS ACMs, and overall scheme of fires. 3-87. For each phase or time period discussed at the combined arms rehearsal, the FSCOORD should ensure the following are integrated: EFSTs. HPTs and TAIs. Trigger points for each target and the target engagement criteria. Target Acquisition resources and allocation for each HPT/TAI. Communications plan for each TA resource. Attack guidance, such as unit(s) to fire, shell and fuze combination, and number of volleys, specified for each target. Alternate method of attack when GPS enabled weapons are primary and the area becomes denied, degraded, and disrupted. FSCMs and ACMs including triggers for moving FSCMs. Priorities of fire. Fire support attack/delivery systems (lethal and nonlethal) available and allocated for each HPT/TAI. Consolidation Area FS plan. CAS, AI, and SCAR apportionment, allocation, and request processes. FIRE SUPPORT REHEARSAL 3-88. The FS rehearsal is a support rehearsal. It should occur before the combined arms rehearsal and ensure the integration and synchronization of the fire support effort with the intelligence collection plan and the maneuver plan. As with the combined arms rehearsal, the FS rehearsal likely occurs after the initiation of the targeting process. Fire support rehearsals are more detailed than the combined arms rehearsal and serve to refine the fire support plan and fire support execution matrix with the maneuver and prove the feasibility of executing fire support tasks. If it is held before the combined arms rehearsal, changes from the combined arms rehearsal may require a second FS rehearsal. A fire support rehearsal may include all key maneuver and