c. Specific responsibilities the signal officer in a divisional
MI battalion include:
(1) Establishing priorities for communications in support of
tactical operations and developing signal plans (e.g., the signal
estimate and signal annex to the MI battalion's operations plan
(OPLAN) or operations order (OPORD)).
(2) Coordinating signal support requirements with
battalion
staff elements and EW threat capabilities with the
battalion
operations section.
(3) Coordinating with the division signal battalion S3 and
assistant division signal officer (ADSO) for division signal support
requests, such as Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) interface,
special signal support requests, etc.
(4) Planning and coordinating the installation, operation, and
maintenance of the battalion's frequency modulated (FM) radio nets,
radio teletypewriter (RATT) nets, wire communications, and user-owned
terminal equipment (telephones, facsimile, and data terminals).
Under MSE, the user is responsible for connecting terminal equipment
to distribution boxes or remote multiplexer combiners.
(5) Installing, operating, and maintaining the battalion's
mobile subscriber radiotelephone terminal (MSRT) equipment.
(6) Knowing the EW functions, which are depicted in Figure 1-4
and discussed below.
3. EW Components.
EW is military action involving the use of
electromagnetic energy to determine, exploit, reduce, or prevent
hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum, and action that retains
friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum. The main components of
EW are ESM, ECM, and electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM).
a. ESM involves actions taken under direct control of the
operational commander to search for, intercept, and identify sources
of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate
threat recognition.
Thus, ESM provides a source of information
required for actions involving ECM, ECCM, avoidance, targeting, and
other tactical employment of forces.
b. ECM involves actions taken to prevent or reduce effective use
of the electromagnetic spectrum by hostile forces.
The two
components of ECM are electronic jamming and electronic deception.
(1) Electronic
jamming
is
the
deliberate
reradiation, or reflection of electromagnetic energy with the object
of degrading the effectiveness of electronic devices, equipment, or
systems which a hostile force is using.
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