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  Figure 1-5. Personnel recovery operations conducted concurrently
  1-47. Army doctrine reinforces the personnel recovery tasks established in joint doctrine. The tasks are
  integrated with the Army core competencies—combined arms maneuver and wide area security. Through
  these core competencies, Army forces balance the application of the elements of combat power within
  tactical actions and tasks associated with offensive, defensive, and stability, or DSCA tasks. (ADP 3-0 and
  ADRP 3-0 discuss combined arms maneuver and wide area security.) Within this context, the personnel
  recovery tasks—report, locate, support, recover, and reintegrate—provide a standard framework for
  organizing the complex actions involved in executing Army personnel recovery. Paragraphs 1-48 through
  1-74 discuss the personnel recovery tasks in more detail.
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  1-48. DODI 1300.18 directs that the unit, detachment, or command report any isolating event to the chain
  of command within twelve hours of knowing a person or group has become isolated. Units use standard
  report formats discussed in FM 6-99. Reports of significant events augment the situation report or the daily
  operations report.
  1-49. Isolating events are significant; a prompt report allows the command and its higher headquarters to
  assess the situation and marshal the necessary support. However, knowing that persons have become
  isolated—especially Army civilians, contractor personnel authorized to accompany the force (CAAF), or
  other designated persons—sometimes is challenging. For example, they may be part of a convoy composed
  solely of local nationals and third country nationals with little or no communications capability.
  Commanders emphasize the importance of personnel accountability through prompt and accurate reporting.
  1-50. In a joint operations area, the theater army headquarters expects a status report—such as dead,
  captured, held hostage, missing, or whereabouts unknown—within four hours in the approved casualty
  report format (see FM 6-99). At each echelon above brigade headquarters, the commanders expect an
  immediate report. In an area with a high risk of isolation, the commander may direct subordinate
  organizations to report probable isolating events, even though the opportunity for a false positive is high.
  Expending command resources to find someone who is not actually isolated may seem tactically wasteful,
  but it communicates and reinforces a powerful message to the command—no unaccounted person will be
  abandoned. These actions are consistent with the tenets of the Army profession and Warrior Ethos.
  1-51. A related reporting activity is the operations security necessary to prevent information about an
  isolating event from falling into unfriendly or unauthorized hands. This involves taking precautions so that
  unit members or the staffs of higher headquarters do not inadvertently release classified information. The
  requirement for operations security does not preclude the notification of the next of kin of those isolated,
  but it does call for the cooperation of public affairs specialists to safeguard information. A report of an
  isolated person or group leads to the next task: locate.
  Locate
  1-52. Forces complete the locate task by every appropriate means, including contact or clues from the
  isolated persons, information from friendly observers, or monitoring of enemy communications. The
  command may resort to a cordon and search, an aerial search, a route reconnaissance, or strategic
  intelligence resources to locate the isolated individual or group.