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An Cosantóir March/April 2021

An Cosantóir the official magazine of the Irish Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Forces.

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12 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

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