text: Offensive Considerations in Counterinsurgency
  occupants are away, it should secure the house to prevent looting. Before US forces depart, the commander
  should arrange for the community to protect such houses until the occupants return.
  5-107. Try to leave the house in the same or better condition than when the search began. In addition
  to information collection, the search team may use digital cameras or video recorders to establish the
  condition of the house before and after the search. All sensitive material or equipment found in the house
  should be documented before it is removed, to include date, time, location, the person from whom it was
  confiscated, and the reason for the confiscation. The use of a digital camera can assist in this procedure.
  For a detailed search, the walls and floors must be searched to discover hidden caches.
  SITE EXPLOITATION
  5-108. Tactical leaders plan, resource, direct, and supervise tactical site exploitation efforts during all
  COIN offensive operations. Site exploitation (SE) is the systematic action executed with the appropriate
  equipment, to ensure that personnel, documents, electronic data, and other material at a site are identified,
  evaluated, collected, and protected in order to gather intelligence and facilitate follow-on actions. It is a
  means by which tactical units exploit and analyze the insurgent after collecting biometric, physical, digital,
  and spoken data. In COIN, insurgents who are captured many times are prosecuted within the HN rule
  of law and SE is an excellent means of providing courts with evidence, especially when properly recorded.
  SE contribute to the decide, detect, assess activities of D3A targeting cycle. Once collected, analyzed,
  and assessed, it may lead to future operations. More information on SE can be found in CALL product
  07-26. Figure 5-7 shows an example SE site sketch.
  Figure 5-7. Example site exploitation sketch.
  Conduct
  5-109. Leaders ensure that Soldiers methodically and effectively identify, preserve, and collect evidence
  while maintaining its integrity. They strive to prevent damage or corruption from foreign materials,
  undocumented chains of custody, or loss. They consider how to mitigate risk by allowing minimal