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Personnel Recovery (PR) is the process whereby personnel
identified as isolated, missing or captured are then located,
recovered and reintegrated. An isolating event can be any
incident that causes personnel to be separated from the
main group in the presence of a threat or even when the
entire group finds itself in a scenario where immediate
extraction from a hostile area is required. From capture by
radical groups, to a vehicle with flat tyres, running out of
fuel or simply taking a wrong turn, the potential scenarios
span the entire spectrum of severity. However, the process
of authentication, extraction and reintegration must be
standardised, rehearsed and committed to muscle memory
for when a distress call is received and a PR mission
By Capt Barry Jones
Photos by Capt Barry Jones
and Sgt Massimo Caschera
Joint personnel recovery exercise during
recent sere course
THE ROLE OF SERE IN JOINT
PERSONNEL RECOVERY (JPR)
Cpl Warren Gaffney operating the Air Corps Mobile PRCC
(Personnel Recovery Co-ordination Cell)
SERE Instructor Cpl Warren Gaffney looks an as a SERE exercise is
carried out
