Rear Area Operations Center

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A Rear Area Operations Center (RAOC) was a U.S. Army MTOE unit that served as a command and control facility that provided an

rear area and/or sub-area commander's planning, coordinating, monitoring, advising and directing agency for area security operations.

According to U.S. doctrine, a RAOC is a reserve component organization of approximately 30 personnel that contains no organic life support capabilities. It must rely on another sustainment brigade or group headquarters to which they are assigned for those functions. When deployed, an assigned sustainment brigade usually has tactical control authority over it while operational control authority is retained by a corps rear area commander.{{cite book |title=FM 3-90 Tactics |date=July 2001 |publisher=Headquarters, Department of the Army |location=Washington, D.C. |edition=07/2001 |url= https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-90/appe.htm |access-date=14 December 2023}}

RAOCs have been operationally deployed to Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.{{Cite web|title= XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS DESERT SHIELD CHRONOLOGY 1-23 February 1991 | url= https://history.army.mil/CHRONOS/23feb91.htm | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100608150340/http://www.history.army.mil/CHRONOS/23feb91.htm | url-status= dead | archive-date= June 8, 2010 |access-date=2023-12-14|website=history.army.mil}}{{Cite web|title= Military Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan | url= https://www.c-span.org/video/?182585-1/military-personnel-iraq-afghanistan |access-date=2023-12-14|website=cspan.org}} It is believed that the U.S. Army has deactivated all RAOCs.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}