text: Chapter 8
  CHAIN OF COMMAND
  8-6. The agencies, units and individuals within the E&R chain of command are responsible for the
  successful planning for and execution of E&R operations.
  JOINT PERSONNEL RECOVERY AGENCY
  8-7. The JPRA develops joint E&R tactics, techniques, and procedures; E&R aids; tools; and
  specialized equipment for E&R. They also provide expertise on E&R and survival to all services.
  JOINT SEARCH-AND-RESCUE CENTER
  8-8. The JSRC represents two or more services or countries. They coordinate recovery efforts among
  joint services. They develop and distribute the Air Tasking Order Special Instructions (ATOSPINS). They
  maintain ISOPREP cards for missing personnel.
  RESCUE COORDINATION CENTER
  8-9. A RCC is located at each service in the theatre of operation. The RCC notifies the JSRC of
  isolated personnel. They help individual units develop their own EPA. They maintain a copy of ISOPREP
  cards for isolated personnel. They coordinate recovery efforts for that service.
  INDIVIDUAL UNITS
  8-10. Each unit is responsible for developing an EPA, and for ensuring that all personnel properly fill
  out their ISOPREP cards, after which the unit keeps the cards updated, stores them in a secure location,
  and forwards a copy to the RCC.
  INDIVIDUAL SOLDIER
  8-11. Responsible for filling out the EPA and the ISOPREP card.
  PLANS
  8-12. Personnel assigned to LRSU are considered high-risk-of-capture and subject to isolation in hostile
  territory. Therefore, they should prepare for the possibility of being in an evasion situation. Successful
  evasion is dependent on detailed planning, as well as peacetime training and proficiency in survival and
  E&R tactics, techniques and procedures.
  8-13. The LRSC commander, with assistance from the RCC and JSRC, is responsible for and prepared
  to conduct personnel recovery operations in support of their own operations. The commander also
  coordinates with the RCC when elements are preparing to enter a possible evasion situation. He relays
  information such as ISOPREP cards and EPA with overlays of the AO. After the LRSC commander
  coordinates with evasion planning agencies, he may determine the unit must make independent evasion
  plans. The LRSC commander starts by identifying the team's AO and formulating and evasion annex with
  the assistance of the JSRC.
  8-14. LRS team evasion planning begins with receiving the E&R annex to the OPORD along with any
  evasion aids that will assist them in the planning phase. After receiving area briefings and examining E&R
  area studies, the team formulates an EPA. The EPA is normally an annex to the team OPORD and briefed
  to the commander. All available evasion aids are requested to assist the team if evasion is required. Finally,
  the team reviews their ISOPREP cards before leaving the planning facility to start infiltration.
  TYPES OF RECOVERY
  8-15. The two types of combat recovery of isolated personnel are conventional and unconventional
  (Figure 8-1):