text: Chapter 1
  Army Personnel Recovery Operations
  This chapter describes personnel recovery. It defines Army personnel recovery and
  discusses the foundations of personnel recovery. It explains Army personnel recovery
  components and concludes with the Army personnel recovery proficiencies.
  FOUNDATIONS
  1-1. Army personnel recovery is the military efforts taken to prepare for and execute the recovery
  and reintegration of isolated personnel. Army forces work together with Department of Defense (DOD)
  and other unified action partners to recover individuals and groups who become isolated. Isolation refers to
  persons being separated from their unit or in a situation where they must survive, evade, resist, or escape.
  In addition, Army forces support the recovery of other persons designated by the President or the Secretary
  of Defense. Preserving the life and well-being of persons working for the Army, or any DOD organization,
  is one of the highest priorities of the United States Government. The personnel recovery mission includes
  preparing Soldiers, other Service members, Army civilians, and contractors in danger of isolation while
  participating in any activity or mission sponsored by the United States.
  1-2. Army professionals have moral and legal responsibilities to train, educate, coordinate, and recover
  isolated members of the Army (and other persons as designated) who are operating in the area of operations
  (AO) or accompanying Army or unified forces. It is a principle embedded in the Army’s Warrior Ethos and
  the Soldier’s Creed (see ADP 1).
  1-3. Unified land operations is the Army’s warfighting doctrine and the Army’s contribution to unified
  action. It describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position
  of relative advantage (see ADRP 3-0). Army forces execute unified land operations through the elements of
  decisive action: offensive, defensive, and stability or defense support of civil authorities’ (DSCA’s) tasks.
  Within all these elements, alone or in any combination, Army personnel recovery doctrine guides Army
  forces to adapt to conditions and successfully accomplish personnel recovery missions.
  ORGANIZATIONS
  1-4. Army forces conduct operations as part of a joint force and together with other Service and
  government partners. The joint force cooperates and coordinates with unified action partners. Army forces
  use established organizational structures coordinated with joint, other Service, and United States
  Government (USG) entities. Each Service has its own personnel recovery policy, doctrine, equipment,
  education, and training. Paragraphs 1-5 through 1-20 give an overview of organizational structures for
  personnel recovery. JP 3-50 contains a detailed discussion of personnel recovery organizational structures.
  JOINT PERSONNEL RECOVERY ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
  1-5. DODD 3002.01 assigns DOD responsibilities for personnel recovery. It identifies the Under
  Secretary of Defense for Policy as responsible for development of national personnel recovery policy,
  strategy, and operational oversight, through the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Integration
  and Chief of Staff and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel
  Affairs. The United States (U.S.) Air Force is the DOD executive agent for personnel recovery (other than
  policy). The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) is the office of primary responsibility. The JPRA is
  a chairman controlled activity, aligned under the Joint Staff Directorate for Joint Force Development. The
  JPRA provides joint guidance, develops and conducts joint training, provides support to deployed forces,
  collects joint lessons learned, and supports joint policy and doctrine development. The JPRA supports
  operational implementation of joint personnel recovery policy.