text: Introduction
  This publication is organized into six chapters:
  Chapter 1 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.
  Chapter 2 addresses the personnel recovery responsibilities and supporting tools of commanders at all
  echelons and staffs at battalion level and above. The discussion applies to headquarters from battalion and
  brigade to theater army.
  Chapter 3 discusses the planning for personnel recovery. It discusses how the staff uses the military
  decisionmaking process, the personnel recovery appendix format, isolated Soldier guidance, and the
  evasion plan of action.
  Chapter 4 discusses personnel recovery considerations for major combat operations. It emphasizes
  personnel recovery in the context of offensive and defensive tasks. It discusses the characteristics of major
  combat operations, the cause of isolation incidents, and conducting the operations process.
  Chapter 5 discusses the personnel recovery considerations for stability. It discusses the characteristics of
  stability as they apply to personnel recovery. It then explains the isolation risk in stability as well as
  isolation risk reduction strategies. It elaborated on Department of Sate and Department of Defense
  interactions. Lastly, the chapter discusses interactions with other partners.
  Chapter 6 discusses the personnel recovery considerations for defense support of civil authorities
  operations. It discusses characteristics of defense support of civil authorities tasks. It explains the personnel
  recovery capability phases. It concludes with the commander and staff’s focus during defense support of
  civil authorities.
  This publication makes several major changes from FM 3-50.1 (now obsolete), which it supersedes. This
  publication articulates the importance of the commander in successful personnel recovery operations. It
  enlarges the scope of Army personnel recovery doctrine for stability and defense support of civil authorities
  tasks. This publication incorporates the doctrinal concepts in ADP 1, ADRP 3-0, ADP 3-07 ADRP 3-07,
  ADP 3-28, ADRP 3-28, ADP 3-90, and ADRP 3-90. Other changes from FM 3-50.1 include:
  • The Army term and definition for personnel recovery are modified; the term is changed to Army
  personnel recovery (see introductory table 1). The definition is limited to military efforts.
  • Chapters 4 and 5 are combined to include personnel recovery operations during offensive,
  defensive, and stability tasks in large-scale combat, and in defense support of civil authorities.
  • Former appendixes are integrated into applicable chapters.
  • Chapters are arranged to align appropriately with current joint personnel recovery doctrine.
  • The publication is designed in accordance with Doctrine 2015 guidance.
  Introductory table 1. Modified Army terms
  Term Remarks
  personnel recovery Changed to Army personnel recovery; definition modified.
  For conciseness, personnel recovery doctrine uses isolation and related forms (such as isolating event and
  isolated person) to include situations involving persons surviving, evading, and delaying contact, being
  detained, or being captured.