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news services have rapid reporting, but may lack accuracy.
Commercial services are usually updated within 24 hours,
and the accuracy of their reports is very good. The U.S. gov-
ernment services are the most accurate; however, it can take
5 to 7 days for a signifcant event to be posted on the gov-
ernment sites. Many low-profle local events will make it to
the news and commercial services, but not be posted on the
government sites.
According to a USASOC directive, every deploying unit,
regardless of size, has an ATO Basic Course–Level II ATO.
During the predeployment site survey, the ATO conducts
multiple force protection assessments. There is an assess-
ment for every location where the unit will reside or train
in the partner nation, all primary and alternate routes to
and from the mission locations, and the routes and any lay-
over locations between the home station and the partner
nation. During these deployments, the unit is totally depen-
dent on the partner nation for support and reinforcement.
Consequently, an integral factor in these assessments is the
ability of the partner nation to provide security for ARSOF
Soldiers.
As a force protection standard, all ARSOF teams deploy
with their weapons and ammunition. Rules of engagement
are coordinated between the partner nation and the U.S.
ambassador before the deployment and are part of the pre-
deployment training.
Deploying ARSOF units must meet all of the Army and
theater commander predeployment training requirements.
In addition, units must be trained to address potential vul-
nerabilities that were identifed through mission analysis or
by the predeployment site survey team. To meet many of
these training requirements, the unit must rely on internal
expertise or nonstandard contracted training. Nonstandard
training includes military mobile force protection; surveil-
lance, countersurveillance, and detection; evasive driving
skills; and protection of high-risk personnel—plus many
other subjects based on the mission, threat, and location. To
be effective, nonstandard training is oriented to the culture
and terrain of the partner nation.
In every generation, the Army orients training to a spe-
cifc region—Vietnam, Germany, the Fulda Gap and, most
recently, Iraq and Afghanistan. As the mission orientation
changes from a specifc region to a worldwide mission, the
requirement for Soldiers to interact with the partner na-
tion's culture remains a critical skill. For example, the be-
haviors demonstrated by the local population and other cul-
tural clues that indicate pending violence in Brazil are not
the same as in Afghanistan or here in the United States. The
ability to detect the small, nonverbal indicators of pending
violence is a critical protection skill for the individual Sol-
dier and requires nonstandard training by subject matter
experts.
Based on the mission and the threat, ARSOF units
are equipped with force protection kits. The equipment
in these kits can range from a simple doorstop alarm that
can be purchased at a local hardware store to sophisticated
detection and alarm systems that include fully integrated,
closed-circuit television and sensor arrays. The detection
and alarm systems will ft into one or two large suitcases,
depending on their confguration. These systems can man-
age a combination of up to 24 separate, closed-circuit televi-
sions or sensors analyzing user-defned heuristics, recording
and providing a local alarm or notifcations, and monitoring
via cellular phone or across a network. Most of the areas
where ARSOF teams and detachments deploy lack modern
communications, and satellite radios and other military
communication methods may not be available or practical
because of mission constraints or incompatibility with part-
ner nation equipment. In those cases, the unit deploys with
satellite telephones to provide communications back to the
U.S. embassy and to any other location with a working tele-
phone.
ARSOF units are provided with robust staff support, in-
telligence, force protection surveys, training, and equipment
to increase the team's situational awareness and response
capability when it deploys; but it is the professionalism of
the Soldiers, their recognition of the threats, their accep-
tance of the risks, and their willingness to apply the tools
and act accordingly that allow them to accomplish their mis-
sion.
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