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CHAPTER 14
SIGNAL COMPANY, TROPOSPHERIC,
HEAVY
Section I. INTRODUCTION
14-1. Mission and Assignment 11-368. It is not adaptable to a type B organization.
The term heavy tropo refers to the technical
The mission of the heavy tropo company is to
provide multichannel communications facilities capabilities of the company (para 144). The
company elements are listed below and are deon
a 24-hour basis, using heavy tropospheric scatscribed
in subsequent paragraphs of this chapter
radio equipment. These communications facil- scribed in subsequent paragraphs of this chapities
may consist of a complete system, extensions,
or individual communications links as re- a. A company headquarters.
quired. The company may be fragmented (pla- b. Two tropo platoons.
toons or sections and company support personnel'
attached to other signal elements) to provide special
communications extensions or links. Nor- d. A signal maintenance section.
mally, when a tropo element, for iistance a section,
is attached to another signal unit to provide 14-3. Administrative and Logistic
both terminals of a tropo link, technical control
Capabilities
of the tropo element also passes to that signal
The heavy tropo company has sufficient personnel
unit. The heavy tropo company is normally as- assigned to perform as follows:
signed to USASTRATCOM (theater), a field
army signal brigade, or the signal group of an independent
corps.
a. Provide command and control, planning,
and supervision of the operating elements of the
company.
14-2. Category and Organization b. Provide company level administrative, per-
The heavy tropo company is a category II unit sonnel, and supply services, including resupply of
(AR 310-25) and is organized under TOE tropo sites.
HEAVY
TROPO CO
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Figure 14-1. Heavy tropo company organization.
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