text: Planning for Personnel Recovery
  Table 3-2. Mission analysis staff actions (continued)
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Develop and Issue Initial Commander’s Intent
  Commander • Issues the commander’s intent including PR intent.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Develop and Issue Initial Planning Guidance
  Commander • Emphasizes the time on the run for isolated persons.
  • Describes commander’s visualization of the battlefield.
  • Directs that PR be incorporated into all phases of force projection.
  • Directs the staff to task-organize a recovery force for initial deployment.
  • Considers incorporating no radio communications and nonstandard navigation
  procedures into the planning.
  • Provides directives to the staff on courses of action to include or exclude and
  how to abbreviate the military decisionmaking process.
  • Directs the chief of staff to include PRCS in all planning meetings.
  • Directs the staff to work with the command sergeant major to incorporate
  measures for preventing isolation into standard operating procedures.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Develop Course of Action Evaluation Criteria
  Commander • Adjusts criterion selection and weighting at the commander’s discretion.
  Chief of Staff • Determines each proposed criterion with weights based on relative importance.
  Staff • Scores each course of action using criteria.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Issue a Warning Order
  G-3 (S-3) • Issues warning order.
  Legend
  G-1 (S-1) personnel staff officer G-6 (S-6) signal staff officer
  G-2 (S-2) intelligence staff officer G-9 (S-9) civil affairs operations staff officer
  G-3 (S-3) operations staff officer MISO military information support operations
  G-4 (S-4) logistics staff officer PR personnel recovery
  G-5 (S-5) plans staff officer PRCS personnel recovery coordination section
  COURSE OF ACTION DEVELOPMENT
  3-5. Table 3-3, pages 3-13 and 3-14, shows personnel recovery actions for step three of the MDMP,
  course of action development.
  Table 3-3. Course of action development staff actions
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Assess Relative Combat Power
  G-2 (S-2) • Computes the force ratios (enemy that affect this mission versus friendly tasked
  G-3 (S-3) with this PR mission).
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Generate Options
  Staff • Develops general approaches (sometimes referred to as methods) to conduct
  personnel recovery (unassisted, immediate, deliberate, and external supported).
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Array Forces
  G-3 (S-3) • Ensures that the commander’s intent and planning guidance is considered. If the
  course of action is not within parameters, seeks approval or change.
  • Determines a proposed line of departure, command posts en route, and release
  point. Determines a proposed forward edge of the battle area or line of
  departure.
  G-2 (S-2) • Considers available units against situation and event templates.
  PRCS • Incorporates the mission profile into the established PR plan.
  (Table 3-3 continues on page 3-14.)