During exercises and operations, the role of the RSM is to organize the battalion for movement, and to assist the unit S1 ( manpower officer ) in manpower administration.
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Those killed were Capt . Robert A . Frankl, a manpower officer with the 355th Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; Lt . Col . Karen P . Budian of National Air Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Staff Sgt.