Timing of fires is critical to the success of the air assault. Conditions are set to ensure the air assault forces will succeed. Information about ourselves, terrain, weather, and the enemy is required to confirm if conditions are set or not. See Chapter 5, Integrated Supporting Operations for further discussion of setting conditions. The control and distribution of all available means to suppress the enemy at our most vulnerable time is imperative.
Ground forces land ready to fight, with integrated aviation and indirect fires.
Close supporting fires, ground, aviation, or indirect, may be delivered. These fires must be positively cleared by the GTC on the ground. In that case, a positive hand-off will be made on the CAN 1 net. This can happen on any air assault. Our reaction is a battle drill, based on the overall mission profile.