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All the personnel, assets and possibly facilities that the commander of a major unit has at his/her disposal in order to exercise command. The HQ is placed under the organic or functional authority of a chief of staff, and it is made up of the staff itself and the command support elements: - CIS specialised in exploitation and attachment; - Headquarters support (including the protection efforts, which could be included in the headquarters support assets) The headquarters can be organised into several command posts: main command post (Main CP) rear command post (Rear CP) tactical command post (Tactical CP) reserved command post (Alternate CP) and, for level 1, a home base command post. A headquarters is considered as “single-site” when it only consists in one Main CP, and when it is therefore deployed over a single site (the Tactical CP is not taken into account since it is not permanent) The headquarters is considered as “multi-site” when it consists in several CPs (Main, Rear, Alternate) each of them located on a different site. |
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