Rear Area Operations Center

A Rear Area Operations Center (RAOC) was a U.S. Army MTOE unit that served as a command and control facility that provided an rear area and/or sub-area commander's planning, coordinating, monitoring, advising and directing agency for area security operations.

According to U.S. doctrine, a RAOC is a reserve component organization of approximately 30 personnel that contains no organic life support capabilities. It must rely on another sustainment brigade or group headquarters to which they are assigned for those functions. When deployed, an assigned sustainment brigade usually has tactical control authority over it while operational control authority is retained by a corps rear area commander.[1]

RAOCs have been operationally deployed to Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.[2][3] It is believed that the U.S. Army has deactivated all RAOCs.[citation needed]

Units

Unit Years active Affiliation Notes
25th Rear Area Operations Center Arkansas Army National Guard
44th Rear Area Operations Center Illinois Army National Guard
51st Rear Area Operations Center -May 2013 South Carolina Army National Guard
53rd Rear Area Operations Center[4] New York Army National Guard
116th Rear Area Operations Center [5] Oct 1971-Sep 2006 [6] Washington Army National Guard Lineage carried over to 56th Theater Information Operations Group
251st Rear Area Operations Center -May 2013 South Carolina Army National Guard [7]
248th Rear Area Operations Center Washington Army National Guard
258th Rear Area Operations Center Arizona Army National Guard

References

  1. ^ FM 3-90 Tactics (07/2001 ed.). Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army. July 2001. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  2. ^ "XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS DESERT SHIELD CHRONOLOGY 1-23 February 1991". history.army.mil. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  3. ^ "Military Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan". cspan.org. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  4. ^ "New York Army National Guard 53rd Troop Command". New York Army National Guard. New York National Guard. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Qayyarah West". Global Security. March 29, 2020.
  6. ^ "History of the 56th Theater Information Operations Group". Washington National Guard. Washington National Guard. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  7. ^ "W. Columbia military unit coming home from Iraq". WIS News 10. March 29, 2020.