This handbook is a pre-doctrinal non-authoritative document that provides information on how JTF and component headquarters might plan for and provide capabilities to tactical units, principally battalion level and below, when they are employed widely dispersed and outside of mutually supporting range of other ground units. Although focused on ground units, there are significant implications for the air and naval components of the joint force as well. The document serves as a bridge between experimentation and current best practices and the potential incorporation of value-added ideas in...

The Joint Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Handbook (JMH) serves as a primary reference for the new Joint METOC Officer Course (JMOC). The intention of the JMH is to provide the Joint METOC Officer (JMO), associated METOC staff, and Service and functional component METOC personnel, an easy-to-use reference manual to assist in the planning and execution of METOC support for joint operations. Some information previously included is better found through on-line sources which are more easily updated, and a web-based resources listing is included as an appendix. The JMH describes existing...