personnel qualification standard (pqs) - I Marine Expeditionary ...

110 Force Protection
divided into smaller geographic areas to enhance overall command and control. Units
are responsible for their local security. In the rear area, security objectives include:
• Preventing or minimizing disruption of support operations.
• Protecting personnel, supplies, equipment, and facilities.
• Protecting Lines of Communications (LOCs).
• Preventing or minimizing disruption of command and control.
• Defeating, containing, or neutralizing any threat in the rear area. Commanders
employ both active and passive measures to provide security. Active measures
include organizing for defensive operations, coordinating reconnaissance and
surveillance, providing security to convoys, positioning air defense units in
the rear area, establishing liaison with fire support organizations, employing
close air support, establishing reaction forces developing defensive plans and
positioning assets in support of them, patrolling, and training in defensive
skills. Passive measures include camouflage, dispersion, and cover. Security
operations in the rear area require detailed planning and aggressive execution.
They must be integrated with all other operations. Subordinate units are
responsible for the conduct of local security operations, but must coordinate
with the overall rear area coordinator or rear area commander.
• Types of security operations include:
o Populace and resource control operations.
o Enemy prisoner of war operations.
o Noncombatant evacuation operations.
o Civilian control operations.
o Area damage control operations.
o Combat operations. Other operations conducted within the rear area that
facilitate the conduct of security operations include deception operations;
civil affairs operations; nuclear, biological, and chemical defense
operations; and psychological operations.
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