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The Staff’s Role
- Staffs exist to support commanders in making and implementing decisions
- - Support the commander.
- - Assist subordinate units.
- - Keep subordinate, higher, adjacent, supported and supporting headquarters informed.
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Primary Products of the Staff
- - Information & Analysis
- - Use information management (IM) to extract relative information (RI)
- - Prepare and disseminate execution information
- - Sections control their fields of interest & make decisions
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Common Staff Elements
- - CoS/XO
- - Coordinating staff group
- - Special staff group
- - Personal staff group
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Role of CoS/XO
- - Directs staff tasks
- - Conducts coordination
- - Ensures efficient & prompt response
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Coordinating Staff Group
- - Commanders principal staff assistants
- - Accountable to CoS
- - Advising, planning & coordinating within fields of interest
- - Does not include fields the commander personally controls
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Special Staff Group
- - Coordinate through CoS
- - Help perform functional (professional & technical) responsibilities
- - - FSCOORD
- - - ENCOORD
- - - MLT (Marine Liaison Team)
- - - AVCOORD
- - - ALO
- - Secretary of the General Staff (XO for CoS)
- - HQ commandant (Soldiers assigned to HQ)
- - Resource manager/Comptroller (Budgets & Resource Management)
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Personal Staff Group
- - Under commander’s immediate control
- - Personal assistants (aides-de-camp)
- - Personnel who the commanders desires to supervise
- - Personnel with a special relationship to the commander
- - - CSM (Enlisted matters, no coordinating staff officer)
- - - SJA (Legal advisor on matters affecting moral, good order, discipline)
- - - Chaplain (Coordinate religious assets, no coordinating staff officer)
- - - IG (Overall welfare & state of discipline)
- - - PAO (Deal with media, other information needs)
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G Staffs (Corps & Divisions)
- - CoS
- - G-1/AG (Personnel)
- - G-2 (Intelligence)
- - G-3 (Operations)
- - G-4 (Logistics)
- - G-5 (Civil-Military Operations)
- - G-6 (C4I)
- - G-7 (IO)
- - G-8
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S Staffs (RGT, BDE, BN)
- - XO
- - S-1 (Personnel)
- - S-2 (Intelligence)
- - S-3 (Operations & Training)
- - S-4 (Logistics)
- - S-5 (Civil-Military Operations)
- - G-6 (C4I)
- - G-7 (IO)
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Staff Officers Common Responsibilities and Duties
- - Advising and Informing the Commander
- - Preparing, Updating, and Maintaining Staff Estimates
- - Making Recommendations
- - Preparing Plans and Orders
- - Assessing Execution of Operations
- - Managing Information within Fields of Interest
- - Identifying and Analyzing Problems
- - Performing Staff Coordination
- - Conducting Training
- - Performing Staff Assistance Visits
- - Performing Risk Management
- - Conducting Inspections
- - Performing Staff Writing
- - Conducting Staff Research
- - Performing Staff Administrative Procedures
- - Exercising Staff Supervision
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G1 Personnel
- - Also serves as the senior adjutant general officer in the command.
- - Manning
- - Personnel Services
- - Personnel support
- - Headquarters management.
- - Coordinating responsibility
- - - Special: Civilian Personel Officer, Dental surgeon, Equal Opportunity Advisor, Finance officer, Surgeon, Veterinary officer
- - - Personal (when functioning as Special): IG, PAO, SJA
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G2 Intelligence
- - Intelligence Readiness
- - Intelligence Tasks
- - Intelligence Synchronizations
- - Other intelligence support
- - Counterintelligence
- - Support to Security Programs
- - Coordinating responsibility
- - - Weather officer
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G3 Operations
- - Training
- - Operations & Plans
- - Force Development & Modernizations
- - Staff planning & Supervision for:
- - - Force protection
- - - Army airspace command & control (A2C2)
- - - Rear area & base security
- - - Discipline, law & order (coords with G1/AG)
- - - Activating/deactivating units
- - - Operations involving EPWs & civilian internees (w/PM)
- - Coordinating responsibility
- - - Air & Space missile defense coordinator
- - - Air Liaison Officer
- - - Aviation coordinator
- - - Chemical officer
- - - Engineer coordinator
- - - EOD officer
- - - Fire Support coordinator
- - - Historian
- - - Liaison officers
- - - Marine Liaison Team commander
- - - Provost Marshall
- - - Safety officer
- - - Space operations officer
- - - Special Operations Coordinator
- - - Theater airlift liaison officer (TALO)
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G4 Logistics
- - Logistics operations & plans (general)
- - Supply
- - Maintenance
- - Transportation
- - Services
- - Staff planning & supervision
- - Coordinating responsibility
- - - Transportation officer
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G-7 IO
- - Current Operations
- - Plans
- - Targeting
- - Staff Planning & Supervision
- - Coordinating responsibility
- - - Military deception officer
- - - Electronic warfare officer
- - - Operations security officer
- - - Psychological operations officer
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G-6 C4I
- - C4 Operations (general)
- - Network Operations
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