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  Table 3-3. Course of action development staff actions (continued)
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Array Forces (continued)
  Staff • Considers air, ground, and maritime avenues of approach.
  • Identifies units and task organization.
  • Evaluates forces arrayed using this course of action and the forces available that
  can respond to this mission.
  G-3 (S-3) • Identifies areas of operations and control measures for subordinate units.
  Airspace • Validates the selection or determines recommended change to geographical
  control control measures.
  PRCS
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  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Develop a Broad Concept
  Staff • Integrates all warfighting functions into overall concept of operations supporting
  PR.
  • Ensures that the concept of operations supports all five PR execution tasks.
  G-3 (S-3) • Develops PR concept of operations, incorporating decisive, shaping, and
  sustaining operations.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Assign Headquarters
  G-3 (S-3) • Recommends task organization by assigning headquarters to groupings of units
  for PR operations.
  • Recommends command relationships for PR.
  Staff • Identifies shortages of headquarters to higher for resolution.
  PRCS • Recommends requirements for PR operations.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Develop Course of Action Statements and
  Sketches
  Staff • Ensures that warfighting functions support each course of action statement and
  sketch.
  G-3 (S-3) • Prepares a statement and supporting sketch for each course of action (include
  who [generic task org], what, when, where, why, and hazards (where) for each
  subordinate unit.
  • Ensures that, at a minimum, the sketch includes array of generic units and
  control measures for PR operations (creates a notional sketch with all probable
  control measures for air, ground, or maritime recovery operation).
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Conduct Course of Action Briefing
  Staff • Conducts course of action briefing.
  PRCS • Provides update on the isolating event.
  Commander • Provides guidance for the mission.
  • Accepts, eliminates, or directs further development of courses of action.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Select or Modify Courses of Action for Continued
  Analysis
  Commander • Selects or modifies courses of actions.
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  G-2 (S-2) intelligence staff officer PR personnel recovery
  G-3 (S-3) operations staff officer PRCS personnel recovery coordination section
  COURSE OF ACTION ANALYSIS AND WAR-GAMING
  3-6. Table 3-4 shows personnel recovery actions for step four of the MDMP, course of action analysis
  and war-gaming.