text: HR Support and HR Planning Considerations during the Army Strategic Roles
  THEATER REDEPLOYMENT CONSIDERATIONS DURING
  OPERATIONS TO CONSOLIDATE GAINS
  7-83. The redeployment of forces from a theater of operations requires the same level of preparation and
  planning as for theater opening. For the HR community, there are four major redeployment concerns:
  * Ensure an adequate number of HR elements remain in theater to conduct the redeployment process
  while reducing the HR support structure.
  * Maintain PASR of redeploying forces.
  * Assist in the reconstitution or reorganization effort, if applicable.
  * Manage the flow of personnel to home stations.
  7-84. Throughout the redeployment process, the TPOC maintains the capability and ability to maintain
  PASR, and limited postal support during all phases of redeployment. This is crucial, as not all forces redeploy
  simultaneously. As forces redeploy incrementally, so should the drawdown of HR units.
  7-85. Like theater opening, planning for the redeployment of forces from a theater is critical to successful
  execution of the redeployment process. Human resources planners from the ASCC G-1/AG, TPOC, and ESC
  HROB are involved in all phases of redeployment planning to––
  * Ensure the theater-wide plan for redeploying includes incremental drawdown of the HR support
  structure.
  * Determine if HR units or support elements should redeploy by unit or element.
  * Determine the need, if any, to sustain a residual force to support post conflict activities.
  * Develop redeployment procedures for individuals and units.
  * Plan to conduct unit reconstitution or reorganization before redeployment (if necessary or
  required).
  * Identify any additional theater departure points. As forces redeploy, additional departure points
  may be used. As such, planning should include the need to provide or add personnel accounting
  capabilities at these locations.
  * Consider if additional liaison personnel are needed, and if so, the proposed locations. This includes
  liaison with aero medical evacuation to maintain accountability.
  * Determine if a need exists to add additional CAC issuance capability at departure points. It may
  be necessary to replace many lost or expired CACs.
  * Maintain connectivity during the redeployment process for PASR and HR support to casualty
  operations.
  * Identify other specific requirements. For example, when redeployment, deployment, and
  sustaining operations occur simultaneously, the TSC/ESC and TPOC may find it necessary to
  rebalance or surge HR support personnel to support on-going operations and redeployment.
  7-86. The same HR elements that conducted PASR, HR support to replacement operations and casualty
  operations, and postal operations during theater opening or HR sustainment perform similar roles during
  redeployment. Human resources support requirements vary depending on the nature and scale of
  redeployment operations. For example, redeployment operations could range from limited personnel to entire
  units. Depending upon the military strategy, unit rotations may still occur while other units redeploy. Key
  considerations include, but are not limited to––
  * Size of the force redeploying and deploying.
  * Infrastructure requirements and limitations.
  * Staging area capacities.
  * Transportation decisions.
  7-87. The challenge for planning HR support operations is effective coordination and synchronization,
  vertically and horizontally, to ensure responsive and simultaneous support to on-going HR support operations
  and redeployment operations. The HROB in the ESC and sustainment brigade is critical to the coordination
  and synchronization effort.