ATTP 5-0.1 Commander and Staff Officer Guide - Army Electronic ...

Chapter 2
portion of Annex E (Protection) to the operation order or operation plan. The operations security officer’s
responsibilities include, but are not limited to—
� Identifying and recommending the essential elements of friendly information (EEFIs).
� Conducting analysis of adversaries as part of the intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB)
process.
� Conducting analysis of vulnerabilities as part of the IPB process.
� Assessing operations security risk.
� Developing, coordinating, and applying operations security measures across the staff.
� Writing the running estimate for operations security.
� Writing the operations security appendix to the protection annex.
� Monitoring, assessing, and adjusting operations security as required.
� Reviewing internal staff documents, information system logs, and news releases for sensitive
information and potential compromise of EEFIs.
� Searching news sources, Web logs (blogs), and other Web sites for sensitive information and
compromise of EEFIs.
� Attending the inform and influence activities working group as required.
PERSONNEL RECOVERY OFFICER
2-96. The personnel recovery officer is responsible for the coordination of all personnel recovery related
matters. (Refer to FM 3-50.1 and FM 7-15 for details.) The personnel recovery officer prepares a portion of
Annex E (Protection) to the operation order or operation plan. Personnel recovery officer duties include,
but are not limited to—
� Developing and maintaining of the organization’s personnel recovery program.
� Recommending recovery courses of action to the commander.
� Coordinating personnel recovery issues, both vertically and horizontally.
� Developing personnel recovery SOPs, plans, and annexes.
� Supporting joint personnel recovery or establishing a joint personnel recovery center as required.
� Assisting personnel recovery officers developing subordinate recovery programs.
PROVOST MARSHAL
2-97. The provost marshal is responsible for planning, coordinating, and employing all organic, assigned,
or attached military police assets. Usually the senior military police officer in the command, the provost
marshal augments the staff with a small planning cell that typically works within the G-5. A provost
marshal is authorized at corps and divisions. The provost marshal prepares a portion of Annex C
(Operations) and a portion of Annex E (Protection) to the operation order or operation plan. (Refer to
FM 3-37, FM 3-39, and FM 7-15 for more information on the duties and responsibilities of the provost
marshal.) Provost marshal responsibilities include, but are not limited to—
� Conducting maneuver and mobility support operations, including route reconnaissance,
surveillance, circulation control, dislocated civilian and straggler control, and information
dissemination.
� Directing components of area security operations, including activities associated with
antiterrorism operations, zone and area reconnaissance, checkpoint access control, and physical
security of critical assets, nodes, and sensitive materials.
� Managing, in coordination with the G-4, the internment and resettlement of enemy prisoners of
war, civilian internees, dislocated civilians, and U.S. military prisoners.
� Coordinating and directing law and order operations, including liaison with local civilian law
enforcement authorities.
� Conducting police intelligence operations, including activities related to the collection,
assessment, development, and dissemination of police intelligence products.
� Coordinating customs and counterdrug activities.
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