Personnel recovery
Personnel Recovery (PR) is a military doctrine for the sum of military, diplomatic and civilian efforts to achieve the repatriation and reintegration of isolated people in danger. The focus is placed on military personnel behind enemy lines.
PR is primarily aimed at achieving the return of isolated military personnel to service, improved morale and improved performance. At the same time, opposing forces should be prevented from using the knowledge of these persons for intelligence purposes or from using these persons for propaganda purposes.
Personnel recovery is divided into: Search and Rescue (SAR), Combat Recovery (CR), Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) and Non-Conventional Assisted Recovery (NAR). While CSAR can only be carried out by the Air Force, CR can be carried out by all branches of the armed forces. NAR is part of the Special Forces, which also cover this area on their own responsibility. The difference between CSAR and CR: In the case of CSAR, those to be rescued are specially trained and equipped personnel. One of the equipment requirements is that the person to be rescued has a personal radio communicator.
Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) and companies for the liberation of hostages and prisoners of war come into question as methods for PR . Military personnel are also encouraged to free themselves - also with the help of other people - or to go to their own troops.
While the USA documents this task very extensively and there is also such a thing for the FBI , the European NATO states currently equate PR and CSAR.
Web links
- “Helpers in need” - the Personnel Recovery Team in Mali , bmvg.de - website of the Federal Ministry of Defense
- U.S. Joint Forces Command - Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bundeswehr: The Personnel Recovery Team - Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. June 11, 2018, accessed February 11, 2019 .