FM 3-34.22 - Army Electronic Publications & Forms - U.S. Army

Chapter 7
7-57. The ENCOORD and the engineer company commander may have a requirement to integrate the
activities of several engineer capabilities (assessments, engineering services, emergency repairs) within the
BCT AO. During a major reconstruction effort, additional engineer battalions and possibly an engineer
brigade could be task-organized to the BCT. These units are equipped and manned to fulfill design,
construction management, and C2 requirements needed to accomplish these missions, which will likely
include—
� Base camp construction and power generation.
� Emergency restoration of critical public services and facilities.
� Infrastructure reconnaissance, technical assistance, and damage assessment.
� Emergency demolition.
� Debris or route-clearing operations.
� Construction and repair of expedient (temporary) roads and trails.
� FACE, to include the repair of paved, asphalt, and concrete runways and airfields.
� Installation of assets that prevent FOD to rotary-wing aircraft.
� Temporary bridge construction.
� Area damage control missions that support the mobility of the civil support force.
� Access to the region through the construction and upgrade of ports; airfields; and reception,
staging, onward movement, and integration (RSO&I) facilities.
INTEGRATION THROUGH THE WARFIGHTING FUNCTIONS
7-58. The following are considerations for integrating engineer operations through the warfighting
functions and into stability and civil support operations.
Movement and Maneuver
7-59. In stability operations, engineers support BCT movement and maneuver as they do in offensive and
defensive operations. However, there is likely to be more emphasis on minimizing the effects of breaching
or clearing operations on infrastructure and collateral damage to civilian areas. In stability operations,
improving mobility in the BCT AO may be part of the unit mission. If so, the BCT may be augmented with
U.S. military and civilian engineers, contractors, and HN engineers. This includes the tasks performed by
elements other than engineers (military police, CBRN, EOD). Depending on the magnitude of required
effort, the BCT may elect to establish an integration cell (assured mobility section) to coordinate the
associated activities.
7-60. Engineers must be creative in implementing nonlethal obstacles (fences, roadblocks, checkpoints) in
controlling civilians or separating belligerent forces while working within the limitations of the ROE or
use-of-force directives.
7-61. The movement and maneuver missions for engineers during civil support operations include combat
and general engineering efforts to clear roads, repair roads, and (in some cases) repair bridges. The BCT
organic combat engineering equipment is well suited for the removal of rubble and debris associated with
disasters.
Intelligence
7-62. In offensive and defensive operations, engineer IR identified during IPB tend to focus on the effects
of terrain and the threat engineer force mission, intent, and capabilities. In stability operations, the engineer
planner must expand beyond geographical and threat force capability considerations and understand more
on the ethnic and religious factions, assessments of infrastructure and key structures, and current
capabilities of existing facilities providing essential services. In civil support operations, the adversary is
often disease, hunger, or the consequences of a natural or man-made disaster.
7-63. Stability operations place more demand on understanding the civil considerations (political, cultural,
historical, economic, ethnic, and humanitarian factors) in an AO. For instance, cultural information might
be important in predicting the potential reactions of a civilian area to an operation. Determining the
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