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.[1]
RAOCs have been operationally deployed to Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.[2] [3] It is believed that the U.S. Army has deactivated all RAOCs.
| Unit | Years active | Affiliation | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25th Rear Area Operations Center | ||||
| 44th Rear Area Operations Center | ||||
| 51st Rear Area Operations Center | -May 2013 | |||
| 53rd Rear Area Operations Center[4] | ||||
| 116th Rear Area Operations Center [5] | Oct 1971-Sep 2006 [6] | Lineage carried over to 56th Theater Information Operations Group | ||
| 251st Rear Area Operations Center | -May 2013 | [7] | ||
| 248th Rear Area Operations Center | ||||
| 258th Rear Area Operations Center |