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Article: The FSO's AO database for the Stryker company.
- Article from:
- FA Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
- Author:
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A platoon leader in a new Stryker reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition (RSTA) troop deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) is tasked to meet with local inhabitants and search some buildings in a particular part of the troop's area of operations (AO). This is his first patrol, but he is not as nervous as one would think, thanks to the troop fire support officer's (FSO's) AO database.
Before planning the mission, the platoon leader went to his computer, opened a folder and selected files on the buildings in his patrol area, based on his map recon. The file contained the names of the heads of the two families in one building with hyperlinks to the ...