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  • Collocate with the theater detainee internment facility.
  • Organizationally structure itself to meet METT-TC requirements
  within the theater.
  • Include HUMINT collectors, CI personnel, technical experts, personnel
  for CEDs and DOCEX, and intelligence analysts, as applicable, from
  the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and other government
  agencies.
  • Maintain the capability to deploy HCTs forward, as needed, to conduct
  interrogations or debriefings of sources of interest who cannot be
  readily evacuated to the JIDC.
  • Often establish a combined interrogation facility with allied HUMINT
  collector or interrogator augmentation if operating as part of a
  multinational operation.
  • Receive collection guidance from the C/J/G2X and send its intelligence
  reports to the C/J/G2X and to the supported C/J/G/S2.
  5-103. The exact size and organizational structure of these elements will
  vary dependent on METT-TC.
  Headquarters Element
  5-104. The activity headquarters provides all command, administrative,
  logistic, and maintenance support to the JIDC. It coordinates with—
  • Higher headquarters for personnel, intelligence, and operational and
  logistical support prior to and after deployment.
  • Theater J2 for reporting procedures, operational situation updates,
  theater and national level intelligence requirements, and collection
  priorities.
  • Provost marshal for location of theater detainee internment facilities
  and for procedures to be followed by HUMINT collectors and MPs for
  the processing, interrogating, and internment of EPWs.
  • Commanders of theater medical support units and internment facility
  for procedures to treat, and clear for questioning, wounded EPWs.
  • Commanders of supporting CI and TECHINT assets to establish
  support requirements and procedures.
  • The servicing SJA.
  • Magistrate for Article 78 issues.
  • Commanders of Air Force, Marine, Navy, and national level
  organizations to arrange administrative and logistic interoperability.
  Operations Element
  5-105. The operations element controls the daily activities within the JIDC.
  The JIDC operations element—
  • Ensures that work areas are available for all JIDC elements.
  • Establishes and maintains JIDC functional files, logs, and journals.
  • Makes detainee files available to detainee release boards to assist the
  board members in their determinations.
  • Establishes interrogation priorities.