These guerrilla units were organized, trained, and equipped to operate in remote areas previously considered to be Viet Cong or North Vietnamese Army havens.
For this reason, once an area was designated for the conduct of an operation, the mobile guerrilla force "owned" that area—including control of air support.
The mobile guerrilla force unit was organized without a weapons platoon, but an M60 machine gun squad was included in the company headquarters.
The combat reconnaissance platoon secured the patrol base and received the first resupply pending the arrival of the rest of the force.
To avoid disclosing their position, mobile guerrilla force troops on many occasions were resupplied entirely through the use of modified, 500-pound napalm containers of prepackaged, code-identified bundles delivered by A1E-type aircraft in what seemed to be a normal air strike.