text: Responsibilities and Supporting Tools
  they start visualizing the operation’s end state and potential solutions to solve problems. After commanders
  visualize an operation, they describe it to their staffs and subordinates. This description facilitates a shared
  understanding of the situation, mission, and commander’s intent. AR 525-28 directs that all commanders—
  * Develop policies and procedures for their command to report, locate, support, recover, and
  reintegrate Soldiers and Army civilians in the event they become isolated.
  * Ensure deployable Soldiers and Army civilians plan with their families the actions families
  should take if Soldiers or civilians become isolated.
  * Develop policies and procedures to support the families of Soldiers and Army civilians in the
  event they become isolated.
  * Provide requirements to the contracting officer concerning personnel recovery for incorporation
  into contracts. At a minimum, commanders identify any training (such as theater entry
  requirements) and equipment needed by a CAAF for personnel recovery efforts.
  * Establish a functioning PRCS for major exercises and operations at the division and corps levels.
  Additionally, AR 525-28 directs that commanders at the brigade level identify a personnel recovery officer
  or noncommissioned officer.
  2-12. The primary responsibility of the commander—at the appropriate level—is to issue personnel
  recovery guidance and ISG. The primary method for exercising this responsibility is face-to-face contact
  with subordinate commanders and interaction with the staff. When required, this coordination extends
  beyond the chain of command to host nations, multinational partners, and international or nongovernmental
  organizations.
  STAFF RESPONSIBILITIES
  2-13. A staff integrates information to support the commander’s situational understanding. Personnel
  recovery staff members have similar responsibilities whether they are trained personnel recovery officers in
  echelons above brigade headquarters, personnel recovery staff officers or noncommissioned officers at
  brigade level, or multifunctional staff officers or noncommissioned officers at battalion level. A staff
  analyzes the impact of an operational environment on personnel recovery operations in terms of the
  operational variables—political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical
  environment, and time (known as PMESII-PT)—when serving at the appropriate command echelon.
  Paragraphs 2-15 through 2-19 focus on personnel recovery operations at echelons above brigade
  headquarters, but the discussion also applies to responsibilities at lower staff echelons. Each staff section in
  the scalable headquarters has some personnel recovery responsibilities.
  Functional Cells
  2-14. Functional cells group personnel and equipment by warfighting function.
  Movement and Maneuver Cell
  2-15. The movement and maneuver functional cell, and especially its current operations integration cell,
  helps the commander anticipate the possibility of an isolating event. This functional cell develops and
  rehearses staff actions to react effectively to execute the schemes of maneuver to recover the isolated
  person or group. This cell supports all personnel recovery tasks but is especially responsible for the
  reporting necessary to establish that an isolating event has taken place. The cell also supports the
  commander’s decisions by communicating direction to the force. Depending on the decisions of the
  commander and the recommendation of the chief of staff, the personnel recovery officer may be located in
  the current operations integration cell.
  Intelligence Cell
  2-16. The intelligence functional cell plays a critical role in the timely recovery of isolated personnel. It
  coordinates before, during, and after an isolating event with higher, lower, and adjacent units and staffs. It
  contributes to mission planning, provides real-time information and intelligence concerning the mission,
  and participates in reintegration. Its analysis helps the command avoid isolating events, describe the hybrid