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Coordinate Personnel Support
The Staff
2-38. Personnel support activities encompass those functions and activities that contribute to unit readiness
by promoting fitness, building morale and cohesion, enhancing quality of life, and providing recreational,
social, and other support services for Soldiers, Army civilians, and other personnel who deploy with the
force. Personnel support encompasses the following functions: morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR),
command interest programs, and Army band operations. Commanders at all levels are responsible for the
MWR support provided to their Soldiers and civilians. Command interest programs include family
readiness, Army substance abuse program, suicide prevention program, and other programs as directed.
Army bands provide music for ceremonial and morale support in all operations to sustain Soldiers and to
inspire leaders.
Headquarters Management
2-39. Headquarters management includes, but is not limited to—
� Managing the organization and administration of the headquarters.
� Providing administrative support for military and civilian personnel, including leaves, passes,
counseling, transfers, awards, and personal affairs.
� Providing information services, including publications, printing, distribution, and material for
the Freedom of Information Act.
� Providing administrative support for non-U.S. forces, foreign nationals, and civilian internees.
� Administering discipline, law, and order (with the provost marshal), including desertion, courtmartial
offenses, punishments, and straggler dispositions.
ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, G-2 (S-2), INTELLIGENCE
2-40. The ACOS, G-2 (S-2) is the chief of the intelligence warfighting function and the principal staff
officer responsible for providing intelligence to support current and future operations and plans. This
officer gathers and analyzes knowledge on enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations for the
commander. The G-2 (S-2) leads the staff in the intelligence preparation of the battlefield process and
assists the G-3 (S-3) with developing and executing the reconnaissance and surveillance plan. The G-2
(S-2) provides intelligence support to lethal and nonlethal targeting operations, ensuring units base
targeting priorities on intelligence threat assessments and include the priorities in the reconnaissance and
surveillance plan. The G-2 (S-2) prepares Annex B (Intelligence) to the operation order or operation plan.
(See FM 2-0 and FM 7-15 for more information on the duties and responsibilities of the G-2 [S-2].)
2-41. The intelligence warfighting function includes the following tasks that facilitate the commander’s
visualization and situational understanding of the operational environment:
� Supporting force generation.
� Supporting situational understanding.
� Performing reconnaissance and surveillance.
� Supporting targeting and information superiority.
2-42. The G-2 (S-2) is also responsible for intelligence readiness, intelligence tasks, intelligence
synchronization, other intelligence support, counterintelligence, and support to security programs. The G-2
(S-2) has coordinating staff responsibility for the staff weather officer and the foreign disclosure officer.
2-43. The G-2 (S-2) facilitates reconnaissance and surveillance integration by giving the commander and
G-3 (S-3) the initial intelligence synchronization plan and helping the G-3 (S-3) develop the initial
reconnaissance and surveillance plan.
2-44. Other intelligence support includes—
� Supporting the conduct of collection operations:
� Providing intelligence updates, other products, and additional support reconnaissance and
surveillance integration, the concept of operations, and mission accomplishment.
14 September 2011 ATTP 5-0.1 2-7