text: Army Personnel Recovery Operations
  complexity. Through planning and coordination, the PRCS strives to overcome differences in language,
  equipment, procedures, and rules of engagement while still maintaining security. Unit commanders and
  staffs must decide whether to maintain a robust team at the remote location or keep the expertise at the
  main command post.
  OTHER UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
  1-19. The American Embassy or diplomatic mission serves as a base of operations for many governmental
  organizations not a part of the Department of State (DOS). Partners typically represented at an embassy
  include the Agency for International Development, the Department of Agriculture, the Central Intelligence
  Agency, the Department of Commerce, DOD, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of
  Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Aviation
  Administration. The list varies depending on the situation and the requirement to project USG interests.
  These representatives provide additional capabilities to address isolating events and more potential targets
  to protect. Diplomatic personnel and others encounter elevated risk if they work at remote locations. The
  embassy’s emergency action plan contains a personnel recovery annex.
  1-20. During DSCA, other government agencies include state, county, and municipal agencies, including
  the governor’s office and state police, the county administrator and sheriff, and city mayors and police.
  DOD agencies and Services collaborate with these types of agencies during DSCA.
  ARMY PERSONNEL RECOVERY COMPONENTS
  1-21. Army forces conduct personnel recovery using the integrated Army personnel recovery components.
  Figure 1-3 on page 1-6 depicts four general components for personnel recovery: focal groups, options,
  tasks, and military methods of recovery.
  PERSONNEL RECOVERY FOCAL GROUPS
  1-22. The three entities most concerned with applying personnel recovery doctrinal principles are the
  commander and staff, unit or recovery force, and isolated persons. These personnel recovery focal groups
  apply the principles at the operational level and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) at the tactical
  level. Together, these three groups integrate activities using the personnel recovery components to
  accomplish missions.
  Commander and Staff
  1-23. Leadership and accountability are essential for effective personnel recovery. Leaders at every
  echelon, from company and below, through battalion and brigade, to echelons above brigade are
  responsible for the conduct of operations, including personnel recovery. At every echelon, the commander
  and staff personnel recovery focal group integrates and coordinates several functions that affect all the
  personnel recovery components.