text: Chapter 2
  Responsibilities and Supporting Tools
  This chapter discusses the responsibilities of commanders, staffs, and organizations
  conducting personnel recovery operations. It also outlines supporting tools to help
  fulfill these responsibilities.
  RESPONSIBILITIES
  2-1. Commanders, leaders, and Soldiers understand and carry out their personnel recovery roles and
  responsibilities so they can accomplish the mission. Army professionals are accountable to fulfill
  responsibilities, whether defined or implied. Usually, a duty description specifies responsibilities;
  sometimes the situation implies them. Each duty position has core responsibilities and associated
  supporting responsibilities. However, responsibilities for a given duty position vary, depending on the
  situation. For example, a personnel recovery officer provides doctrinally correct input to an Army unit
  OPLAN or OPORD but also may serve as the officer in charge of a recovery operation. This field manual
  is intended to provide flexible guidance that Army organizations can adapt to their specific situation.
  2-2. In any Army unit or organization, the commander combines the art of command and the science of
  control to integrate the warfighting functions to accomplish the mission. Staff members support the
  commander and subordinate commanders in understanding situations, making decisions, and implementing
  decisions. Paragraphs 2-3 through 2-35 detail personnel recovery responsibilities of commanders, staffs,
  and organizations.
  COMMON COMMANDER AND STAFF RESPONSIBILITIES
  2-3. All echelons of command, from the company to above brigade, regardless of the makeup of the
  personnel recovery staff section, share core responsibilities. In every action, the commander and staff
  exemplify the tenets of the Army profession and winning spirit espoused by the Soldier’s Creed: never
  accept defeat, never quit, and never leave a fallen comrade behind. The commander and staff sections
  consider their responsibilities concerning the operations process, training, guidance, coordination, and
  equipment. The discussions are not all inclusive.
  2-4. By integrating personnel recovery into all aspects of the Army operations process, the commander
  and staff—
  * Conduct personnel recovery operations to report, locate, support, recover, and reintegrate
  isolated personnel anywhere within the command’s AO.
  * Use the tactical-level mission variables—mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and
  support available, time available and civil considerations (known as METT-TC)—to refine their
  understanding of a situation.
  * Embed personnel recovery concepts and tasks in all plans and orders.
  * Implement a communication plan for personnel recovery.
  * Plan and prepare a designated area for recovery to serve as a focal point for short-term personnel
  recovery operations or specific missions.
  * Ensure all intelligence and reports on an isolating event are collected, preserved, analyzed, and
  reported to proper authorities, including the lessons learned and assessments at the headquarters.
  2-5. When training for personnel recovery, the commander and staff have the following responsibilities:
  * Conduct predeployment, premission, annual Code of Conduct, and annual SERE training.
  * Monitor, exercise, and rehearse all personnel recovery missions.