It has a mess section and a 16-member maintenance platoon. The airborne battalion has 30 long-range radios. Its rifle squads also have antiarmor capability. Field Artillery Direct Support Battalions in Light Divisions Primary weapons system is the M102, 105-mm towed howitzer. Companies are not separately employed away from the battalion for C2 and logistical reasons.
Mission is to destroy armor and mechanized targets with mobility, firepower and shock effect.
The basic TOE unit of the engineer system is the battalion. Although engineer battalions normally have a fixed organization, they may also be tailored for specific requirements. Battalions are employed when it is desirable to assign a unit with the complete control of a task or an area. The other divisions will have only one organic engineer battalion composed of four or five engineer companies. Regardless of structure, these battalions perform the primary combat engineer missions in the division's sector and forward.