text: Planning for Personnel Recovery
  Table 3-2. Mission analysis staff actions (continued)
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Analyze the Higher Headquarters’ Order
  (continued)
  Chaplain • Assesses the religious support plan for PR.
  Surgeon • Assesses the medical plan to ensure that media contact is controlled and that
  Public affairs medical personnel know of restriction.
  officer
  Public affairs • Assesses public affairs plan for PR.
  officer
  Staff judge • Assesses laws, regulations, treaties, international and interagency agreements,
  advocate rules of engagement, and rules for the use of force.
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Perform Initial Intelligence Preparation of the
  Battlefield
  Commander • Emphasizes time on the run for isolated persons.
  G-5 (S-5) • Updates the common operational picture.
  Staff • Determines the operational framework consisting of the arrangement of friendly
  forces and resources in time, space, and purpose with respect to each other and
  the enemy situation.
  • Describes battlefield effects on the overall effectiveness on friendly operations.
  • Updates all available information regarding the threat in the area of the isolating
  event.
  • Determines if there is a threat from nonmilitary forces (such as police, militia, and
  angry civilians).
  • Determines effects of these threats on support.
  G-2 (S-2) • Establishes an area of intelligence (in coordination with the commander and the
  G-3 [S-3]), area of intelligence responsibility, and intelligence handover line.
  • Describes the battlefield effects on the overall effectiveness on enemy
  operations.
  • Determines the most likely, most dangerous, and other enemy courses of action
  and the impact on PR.
  • Develops situation and event templates for the isolating event.
  G-3 (S-3) • Collates the staffs intelligence requirements and gaps in their knowledge of the
  battlefield.
  • Defines the area of operations and area of interest (in coordination with the
  commander and the G-2 [S-2]) and their relation to operational boundaries.
  Terrain • Evaluates terrain to, from, and near an isolating event.
  detachment
  Staff weather • Assesses the weather and light data.
  office
  G-3 (S-3) • Identifies high-payoff targets and high-value targets to support the PR mission.
  G-2 (S-2)
  Fire support
  officer
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Determine Specified, Implied, and Essential Tasks
  Commander • Emphasizes time on the run for isolated persons.
  • Guides the staff in identifying specified, implied, and essential PR tasks in the
  Chief of staff
  order.
  Chief of staff
  • Identifies the essential rehearsals.
  PRCS
  (Table 3-2 continues on page 3-10.)