text: Planning for Personnel Recovery
  Table 3-7. Orders production, dissemination, and transition staff actions
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Produce and Disseminate Orders
  Commander • Approves the order.
  Chief of Staff • Coordinates to assist the G-3 in developing the order.
  Staff
  Responsible Personnel Recovery Actions: Transition from Planning to Operations
  Commander • If time available, briefs the order to subordinate units.
  Staff
  Staff • Reproduces and disseminates the order to subordinate units.
  • Receives acknowledge receipt of order from subordinate units.
  Legend
  G-3 (S-3) operations staff officer
  CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION FOR PERSONNEL RECOVERY
  3-10. The MDMP outlined in tables 3-1 through 3-7 results in the development of Appendix 13 (Personnel
  Recovery) to Annex E (Protection). This serves as the command’s personnel recovery guidance. The
  command’s personnel recovery guidance then forms the basic guidance (or recommendations) from which
  the ISG and evasion plans of action are developed.
  PERSONNEL RECOVERY GUIDANCE
  3-11. Personnel recovery guidance is contained in various parts of the order, including the base order, and
  appropriate annexes, appendixes, tabs, and exhibits. Those reading the order must extract the information
  necessary to execute their responsibilities. Most of the information on personnel recovery appears in
  Appendix 13 (Personnel Recovery) to Annex E (Protection) of a plan or order.
  3-12. In personnel recovery operations, the intent of guidance at any level of command is to communicate
  how organizations or individuals should act in the absence of specific instructions. Army organizations
  conducting recovery operations are bound to consider professional, moral, legal, and practical obligations.
  Commanders use their personnel recovery guidance to link the joint force commander through theater army
  and below to the lowest tactical echelon. Their guidance reflects the degree of risk of isolation. Higher-
  level guidance typically directs the force to plan for personnel recovery operations. At lower echelons, the
  ISG normally consists of directions to carry certain equipment, such as personal locator beacons and
  survival radios, or to learn the location of rally points, safe recovery zones, or communications frequencies.
  3-13. Joint and Army execution documents—OPORDs, OPLANs, and regulations—communicate
  personnel recovery guidance and ISG to uniformed Service members. Personnel recovery guidance, ISG,
  and evasion plans of action are also for civilians and CAAF. Because the isolated person may include
  Army civilians, and CAAF, Army leaders and staff must develop a communications program to inform
  these individuals. Civilian and contractor members of Army organizations need the guidance and
  preparation necessary for their safety, especially the ISG that enables them to contribute to prevention,
  preparation, and self-recovery if they become isolated. When working with third-country national CAAF or
  other designated persons (for example, local national), culture and language complicate this format.
  3-14. Commanders reinforce policy and doctrine, including the definition of personnel recovery, the
  designation of isolated persons, and the requirement for staffing and coordination. Leaders develop and
  include personnel recovery guidance in execution documents and modify it to fit the audience. These
  execution documents include OPLANs, OPORDs, FRAGORDs, branches, sequels, and SOPs.
  3-15. Below the combatant command level, the personnel recovery guidance—
  * Communicates the commander’s concept of operations for personnel recovery.
  * Establishes personnel recovery command, support, and liaison relationships.
  * Specifies subordinate commanders’ personnel recovery responsibilities.
  * Discusses initiatives needed to prepare the force.