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3 unusual facts about Area of responsibility


Area of responsibility

Communication is key, either for reconnaissance to report intelligence or fire support for ground forces.

Sometimes known as distant battlespace, it is useful to the force commander as a tool in assigning subordinate areas of operations and in focusing intelligence collection and information operations to shape the battlespace to facilitate future operations.

Communication zone, the rear part of the theater of war or theater of operations (behind but contiguous to the combat zone) that contains lines of communications, establishments for supply or evacuation, and other agencies required for the immediate support and maintenance of the field forces.


205th Corps

4th Brigade, Camp Holland, Tarin Khowt, Oruzgan, Brigadier General Zafar Khan(redesignated brigade of another corps which had been transferred into 205 Corps' Area of responsibility.)


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102 Squadron SAAF

The squadron area of responsibility is from north of Polokwane (Pietersburg) to the Limpopo River and is used for reconnaissance flights along the South African and Zimbabwe and Botswana borders.

2008–09 South Pacific cyclone season

After it made landfall Innis became the first Tropical Depression to move into TCWC Brisbane's Area of responsibility since Cyclone Larry.

Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre

With an area of responsibility spanning almost 1 million square miles, the ARCC deals with incidents across the whole of the UK out to half way across the North Atlantic.

Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment

The station’s Area of Responsibility reaches from Ocean Park on the Washington Coast south to Tillamook Head on the Oregon Coast.

Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland

He might have been involved in an embassy to the Council of Siena in 1423, but still his main area of responsibility lay in the border region.

No. 11 Group RAAF

The group's initial area of responsibility was all Dutch territory north of latitude 7 degrees south and east of longitude 108 degrees east, British North Borneo and Sarawak.

Organization of the United States Coast Guard

Within each District, large operational shore-side units known as Sectors are responsible for mission execution within their area of responsibility.

Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen

His area of responsibility stretched from the northern tip of Lake Garda to Trento on the west side of the Adige River.

Ralph L. Boyce

His area of responsibility included Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.

Tropical Storm Washi

Early on December 15, the system crossed west of 135°E and entered the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration's (PAGASA) area of responsibility.