The Recon BN mission was "to provide pre-assault and deep post-assault reconnaissance in support of the Division commander". Everything from beach surveys to jumping in 30-40 klicks behind enemy lines (about our doctrinal limit). Each Bn's Recon companies were typically assigned to an infantry Bn or a MEU and then were broken up into their discreet teams as required to support individual units or elements. We uniformly operated well behind the FEBA, typically outside the arty fan and thus emphasized comm and call for fire (especially air). Comm failure is mission failure. Route Recon, point recon on particular targets, locating possible LZ's and HLZ's, demo missions on bridges and the like. All sorts of fun stuff. Usually involving lots of climbing of hills with redundant batterys