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7-48. There are five basic types of missile units and each varies slightly: • Air and Missile Battalion (Patriot) Maintenance Company.

• Air and Missile Defense Composite Battalion (Patriot/Avenger-Patriot/Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) Maintenance Company.

• Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) Battery. • Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Battery.

• Maneuver Air and Missile Defense Battalion (Avenger/SLAMRAAM) Maintenance Detachment.

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7-49. The maintenance company is employed with the air missile defense (AMD) battalion as part of an integrated air defense system to protect forces and selected geospatial assets from aerial or missile attack. The Patriot missile system is a theatre asset that operates in the BCT’s area of operations.

7-50. The maintenance company provides field level maintenance support to all assigned units. Specifically automotive, ground support equipment, communications-electronic and missile peculiar systems. It also maintains an ASL of approximately 2,000 lines of repairable exchange and 550 lines of shop stock. The Component Repair Company performs sustainment level maintenance and repairs as necessary.

7-51. The company consists of a headquarters, maintenance control, technical supply, mechanical maintenance, and recovery sections along with a Patriot system support team, HHB automotive field maintenance team, and four Patriot automotive field maintenance teams.

7-52. Each Patriot automotive field maintenance team may be pushed to a patriot battery and can provide maintenance support for automotive, refrigeration and power generation. The HHB automotive field

maintenance team is responsible for automotive and power generation maintenance to the HHB of the patriot battalion.

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7-53. The maintenance company has the same characteristics as the Patriot/MEADS company above with the exception of an Avenger system support team and an Avenger automotive field maintenance team (which replaces the Patriot automotive field maintenance teams). Both of these teams provide onsite field maintenance to the avenger battery and platoons which are normally spread throughout the area of operations. It is capable of providing radar, automotive and generator support.

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7-54. The JLENS battery is employed as a battery or as an independent subsystem as determined by METT-TC. It is used to provide a theater “long duration surveillance base piece” for theater surveillance. It provides overlapping coverage necessary to enhance the joint composite tracking process and enables tactical employment flexibility for other Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense (JTAMD) sensors and weapons. The JLENS is also employed to provide integrated fire control support capability in direct or general support of systems and forces, including joint task forces and naval ships operating in littoral regions. JLENS is employed as part of cooperative and integrated capabilities that complement JTAMD weapons and sensors system. 7-55. The battery is comprised of a Headquarters, Field Maintenance and Force Protection Section along with an AMD Planning and Coordination Cell, two Sensor Control and Sensor Sections and a Support Platoon. 7-56. The support platoon is responsible to maintain the battery’s bench stock, shop stock, system records, parts inventory, and provides helium support for the battery. The field maintenance section is responsible for providing maintenance of automotive, power generation, radar, and communications-electronic repair.

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7-57. The primary mission of a THAAD unit is to protect homeland, deployed military forces, and allies from short range and medium range ballistic missiles. They are assigned to the Army Air and Missile Defense Command. The Army Air and Missile Defense Command employs the battery during major combat operations in support of the combatant commander or subordinate joint task force commander.

7-58. The battery consist of a headquarters, field maintenance, fire control, radar, launcher and battery logistics operation sections. In addition there is a sensor platoon headquarters.

7-59. The field maintenance section provides field maintenance capabilities to the battery for all automotive, ground support and communications-electronic equipment. It also provides oversight for the battery logistics operations section and serves as the maintenance support center for all THAAD missile round maintenance and supply operations. In addition they are augmented by interim contract support for THAAD, radar systems, prime power units, cooling equipment unit (repairs that exceed the capabilities of the unit operator-maintainer), and provide communication assets to support user tele-maintenance support operations to the THAAD technical expert centers.

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7-60. The mission of the maintenance detachment is to provide field level maintenance support to the Maneuver Air and Missile Defense Battalion. It provides all of the automotive, ground support equipment, communications-electronic and peculiar missile systems maintenance. The detachment normally deploys with the HHB.

7-61. The detachment is comprised of a headquarters, mechanical maintenance, recovery and Avenger maintenance sections. The mechanical maintenance section provides all the automotive, ground support and communication-electronic maintenance while the recovery section provides all the lift capabilities for the repair shops along with recovery of organic equipment. It also provides limited recovery and welding to supported units and assist with maintenance to maintenance evacuation support.

7-62. The Avenger electronic/missile field maintenance team is capable of breaking into six teams to provide contact system maintenance support to the avenger battalion. It also serves as an alternate net control station.