text: Planning for Personnel Recovery
  Table 3-2. Mission analysis staff actions (continued)
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Identify Critical Facts and Develop Assumptions
  Commander • Emphasizes time on the run for isolated persons.
  Staff • Identifies each piece of information in the running estimate as fact or assumption
  as it relates to PR mission.
  PRCS • Reconfirms status of isolated persons.
  Staff • If no communications with the isolated persons, determines running estimates,
  location from last known position, direction of travel, and event template.
  • Determines if isolated person can survive ongoing battlefield activities until
  recovery via survival and evasion.
  PRCS • Determines if support for recovery (unassisted or unconventional) is available in
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  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Begin Risk Management
  Staff • Identifies tactical hazards that affect the isolating event.
  Command • Identifies historical information from other isolating events (from sources such as
  sergeant major after action reviews).
  PRCS • Determines potential enemy course of action that could lead to isolating events.
  Staff • Reviews tactics, techniques, and procedures for convoy operations.
  • Establishes traffic control post measures.
  • Identifies enemy counterreconnaissance or counter PR measures and likely
  enemy courses of action.
  • Determines recovery force experiences during isolating event.
  • Evaluates medical evacuation operations accounting and reporting procedures.
  • Determines fratricide potential in recovery operations and develops
  countermeasures.
  • Identifies environmental hazards that affect PR operations.
  • Evaluates information management shortfalls.
  • Conducts mortuary affairs accounting and reporting.
  • Evaluates accuracy of accounting for personnel.
  • Evaluates effectiveness of PR operations.
  • Evaluates effectiveness of transitions.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Develop Initial CCIRs and EEFI
  Commander • Emphasizes time on the run of isolated persons.
  Staff • Identifies the gaps in battlefield information that affects the PR mission.
  • Focuses initial commander’s critical information requirements on decisions the
  commander must make to focus planning and selects the optimum course of
  action.
  • After selecting the course of action, shifts commander’s critical information
  requirements to information the commander needs to make decisions during
  execution.
  G-2 (S-2) • Identifies the indicators for each information requirement.
  • Submits requests for information and latest time information is of value to close
  gaps in information.
  PRCS • Reviews the list of requests for information and the latest time information is of
  value as developed during the predeployment phase and updated in theater of
  operations to reflect current situation.
  (Table 3-2 continues on page 3-12.)