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Joint
Personnel Recovery Agency
The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA),
headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va., is a subordinate
activity of USJFCOM. JPRA was created in 1999, merging
the Joint Services SERE Agency and the Joint Combat Search
and Rescue Agency.
The
commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) is the
Department of Defense’s (DoD) executive agent
for personnel recovery and is responsible for coordinating
and advancing joint personnel recovery capabilities.
The Defense POW/MIA Office establishes and promulgates
personnel recovery policy.
Personnel recovery is the term for military, civil,
and diplomatic efforts to obtain the release or recovery
of captured, missing, or isolated personnel from uncertain
or hostile environments and denied areas.
The goals of DoD personnel recovery include:
• Returning isolated personnel to friendly control
• Denying enemies a potential source of intelligence
• Preventing the exploitation of captured personnel in
propaganda programs
• Maintaining the morale of our fighting forces and the
national will
The commander, USJFCOM, has designated JPRA as the office
of primary responsibility for DoD-wide personnel recovery
matters, executing the day to day responsibilities of
the executive agent. In that role, the agency supports
the military departments, combatant commands, the Joint
Staff, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and defense
agencies, DoD field activities, and other government
agencies.
Responsible
for shaping and enabling the planning, preparation
and coordination of personnel recovery for
DoD, JPRA enables commanders, individuals, recovery
forces, and supporting organizations to effectively
execute their
personnel recovery responsibilities and to accomplish
the five PR tasks of report, locate, support, recover,
and reintegrate.
JPRA
supports policy and doctrine development for the recovery
process, and researches
tactics, techniques
and procedures (TTP) to assist the services in conducting
joint recovery operations.
JPRA has four core capabilities:
• Provide PR guidance
• Develop, conduct, and support PR education and training
• Provide support to operations, exercises, and deploying
forces
• Ensure PR remains viable through the adaptation of lessons
learned, research and development, and other validated
inputs
JPRA assists OSD and the Joint Staff to establish PR
policy and doctrine. JPRA supports the services in the
development of their policy and oversees their survival,
evasion, resistance, and escape training.
JPRA assists combatant commands to develop and exercise
PR architectures and operational procedures to plan and
prepare for the successful recovery of isolated personnel.
JPRA has a responsibility to monitor and leverage research
and development efforts to fill technology gaps in personnel
recovery.
Finally, JPRA has the responsibility to coordinate,
manage, and assist combatant commands and services in
implementing reintegration guidance and procedures. It
provides personnel recovery experts to assist combatant
commands and the services in the reintegration handling
and debriefing process.
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