text: Evasion and Recovery
  — Plan travel, including such factors as distance, duration, and speed.
  — Plan intended actions and length of stay at initial hole-up location(s).
  • Evasion actions and intentions for first 48 hours, injured.
  — Plan for treatment of the injured or self-aid.
  — Considerations for movement techniques.
  — Litters, canes, crutches, and so on.
  — Rate of march.
  • Evasion actions and intentions after 48 hours.
  — Routes, plans to destination.
  — Actions and intentions at potential contact or recovery locations.
  — Contact and recovery point signals, signs or procedures.
  — Contingency plans.
  • Communication and authentication.
  — Code words.
  — Bona fides.
  — Color or letter of the day, month, or quarter.
  — Challenge or password and any number combinations.
  — Available communications and signaling devices (day or night, near or far).
  — Primary communication schedule procedures and frequencies.
  — Alternate communication schedule procedures and frequencies.
  Optional Components
  • Weapons and ammunition carried.
  • Personal evasion kit items.
  • Listing of issued survival kit items.
  • Mission evasion preparation checklist.
  • Signature of reviewing officer.
  EVASION AREAS
  8-57. Evasion areas within the theatre or area of operation are decisive to mission accomplishment
  should the team or individual become isolated from his unit. Using the evasion area within the study region
  increases the evader's chance to reunite to friendly control.
  SAFE
  8-58. A SAFE is an area within a potentially hostile region where an individual may become isolated
  and must evade to avoid capture by the enemy. This area will be pre-determined to have the best conditions
  for evasion and survival opportunities. Within the SAFE will be contact points and usually a recovery site.
  An area study of the SAFE will be found in the SAID and should be used when planning for a possible
  evasion situation.