Rear Area Operations Center
A Rear Area Operations Center 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.
RAOCs have been operationally deployed to Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is believed that the U.S. Army has deactivated all RAOCs.
Units
| Unit | Years active | Affiliation | Notes |
| 25th Rear Area Operations Center | Arkansas Army National Guard | ||
| 44th Rear Area Operations Center | Illinois Army National Guard | ||
| 51st Rear Area Operations Center | -May 2013 | South Carolina Army National Guard | |
| 53rd Rear Area Operations Center | New York Army National Guard | ||
| 116th Rear Area Operations Center | Oct 1971-Sep 2006 | Washington Army National Guard | Lineage carried over to 56th Theater Information Operations Group |
| 251st Rear Area Operations Center | -May 2013 | South Carolina Army National Guard | |
| 248th Rear Area Operations Center | Washington Army National Guard | ||
| 258th Rear Area Operations Center | Arizona Army National Guard |