1963 US Army Vietnam War Armor Operations ... - Survival Books

WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COMareas and materiel; supervision oftroops or installations under all operunitdecontamination; operation ofating conditions by the use of smoke.one personnel decontamination sta- (3) Chemical decontamination company.tion; supervision of unit field impreg-This unit provides third-echelon denationof clothing; and third-echeloncontamination for vehicles and equipmaintenanceof Chemical Corps equip-ment or large quantities of supplies.ment. These tasks are assigned on a It is capable of functioning as a fireprioritybasis or as directed by thefighting unit and providing mobilesupported commander within the ca-shower service.pabilities of the unit.b. These chemical units are equipped to de-(2) Chemical company, smoke generator. fend themselves against hostile ground attackThis unit provides concealment of and are 100 percent mobile.Section V. ENGINEER284. Division Engineer Battalion (9) Performing engineer reconnaissancea. General. The primary mission of the diviandintelligence missions.sion engineer battalion is to increase the com-(10)(10)AccomplishingAccomplishinggeneralgeneralconstruction,constructionincluding construction of airlandingbat effectiveness of the division by means offacilities.general engineer work. A secondary mission isto undertake and carry out combat missions (11) Producing a supply of potable water.when required.(12) Providing assistance in the assault offortified positions.b. Capabilities. The division engineer bat- (13) Conducting combat missions, whentalion is specially organized, equipped, andrequiredtrained to perform tasks that assist divisionunits. These tasks include-c. Employment.(1) Providing engineer staff planning and (1) General. The division engineer batsupervisionof organic and attachedtalion is designed to provide an optiengineertroops.mum combination of engineer equip-(2) Performing construction, repair, and ment and individual skills for combatthe maintenance of roads, bridges,engineer tasks. Some of these tasksfords, and culverts.are performed by the battalion oper-(3) Providing support to hasty stream ating as a unit; however, most ofcrossing operations by providing them are accomplished by the combatboats, rafts, and bridges, and prepar-rcompanies and platoons thating deep-fording sites; and coordinat-support the bridges, battalion tasksing organic and attached engineerforces, or company teams. These engineerunits maytroops to support of deliberatebe reinforced withstreamneer units may be reinforced withcroopssingsupport of deliberate streamengineer construction equipment fromheadquarters and headquarters com-(4) Providing fixed bridging for passagepany and stream crossing equipmentof short gaps.and assault bridging from bridge com-(5) Assisting in the removal of obstacles,including mines.(6) Assisting in the emplacement of ob- (2) Fundamentals of employment.stacles, including minefields(a) Combat engineer support is allo-(7) Preparing and executing demolitions, cated on the basis of anticipatedincluding employment of nuclear engineer work as determined by thedemolitions (ADM).factors of METT. The amount of(8) Assisting other troops in the prepara- engineer support allocated to a tactitionof field fortification, camouflage,cal unit is based on the anticipatedand deception devices.engineer work, as determined by theAGO 9139A 147