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HEADQUARTERS, CFC
Seoul, ROK
1June 19XX
APPENDIX 2 TO ANNEX E TO CFC OPLAN (KOREA) 9518X-XX
PROCESSING OF FORMERLY CAPTURED, MISSING, OR DETAINED US PERSONNEL
References:
a. SM-399-68, “Policy for Processing returned US Prisoners of War and other Detained Military
Personnel.”
b. SM-326-70, “Personnel Planning Guidance.”
c.
Four Convention 1949.
d. DEPSECDEF memo, 18 January 1969, “Policy for processing of returned US Prisoners of war
and Other Detained Military Personnel.”
e. SECDEF memo, 16 May 1972, “Policy for processing of returned US Prisoners of war and
Other Detained Military Personnel.”
f.
ASD (PA) memo, 3 August 1972, “EGGES RECAP Public Affairs Guidance.”
g. SECDEF memo, 26 August 1978, “Policy for processing of returned US Prisoners of war and
Other Detained Military Personnel.”
h. DEPSECDEF memo, 15 July 1972, “Policy for processing of returned US Prisoners of war
and Other Detained Military Personnel.”
1. Situation
a. General. Respective service commanders have the inherent responsibility for processing
formerly captured, missing or detained US military personnel to include medical treatment, intelligence
debriefings, and evacuation. Each Service Component will process its own service personnel. The
Department of State will be responsible for processing US and foreign civilians.
b. Enemy. See Annex B, Intelligence.
c. Friendly. See Basic plan.
d. Assumptions. See Basic Plan.
2. Mission. On order, JTF Korea coordinates the processing of formerly captured, missing or detained
US personnel in the Joint Operations Area.
3. Execution
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a. Concept of Operations. Respective Service Components will process their service members.
This process includes transfers of custody, transportation of returnees, establishment of a processing
center, and evacuation of returnees from theater or returned to duty.
(1) Health, Welfare, and Morale of returnees. The health, welfare, and moral of
returnees are of prime importance. All reasonable efforts will be made to provide for their personal,
psychological, and spiritual needs.
(2) Placement of Returnees in Medical Channels. Returnees will be placed in medical
channels as soon as possible. See Annex Q, Medical.
(3) In-Theater Processing. JTF Korea will be responsible for in-theater processing of
returnees.
(4) Patient Transportation. See annex Q, Medical.
(5) Aeromedical Evacuation. Returnees, when medically and operationally feasible, will
be evacuated by aeromedical means to the US or returned to duty.
b. Assignment of Task
(1) JTF Korea
(a) Provide staff supervision of the process of repatriation.
(b) Coordinate transfer of joint, allied, or civilian personnel to the appropriate
agencies.
(c) Establish centralized in-theater processing centers. JTF Korea will be
responsible for establishing the center if detainees are military personnel and will coordinate with local
State Department Representatives if civilian detainees are involved. The Department of State will be
responsible for establishing the center if detainees are civilians.
(d) Coordinate Public Affairs coverage and support for the process as
appropriate.
(e) Provide coordination and interaction with the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) and American Red Cross as necessary.
c. Coordinating Instructions
(1) Service Components may perform actual transfer actions to gain control of returnees,
or find them on the battlefield as stragglers. Based on the situation, Military Police Units will be authorized
direct coordination with units conducting the transfer or holding returned soldiers.
(2) Movement requests will be clearly identified as repatriation actions and treated with
the highest priority commensurate with the tactical situation.
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(3) JTF Korea coordinates with DOD or Department of State for the transfer of returnees
from other services and civilians, which have been delivered to JTF Korea’s processing center.
4. Administration and Logistics
a. Processing Sites. Processing sites may be co-located with medical treatment facilities,
personnel processing centers, or specially designated locations.
b. Intra-theater airlift support. See annex D.
c. Medical Care and Treatment. Upon the return to US control of captured, missing, or detained
US personnel JTF Korea will ensure that appropriate casualty reports are made through casualty report
channels per applicable service directives. JTF Korea will also ensure that appropriate medical
examinations are performed prior to release of detainees
d. Establishment and Disposition of Processing Files.
established.
JTF Korea will coordinate this if
e. According of Legal Rights. Returnees will be accorded all the legal rights and privileges to
which they are entitled at every stage of processing, including intelligence debriefings.
f. Assignment of Returnees to Designated CONUS Hospitals. If medical evacuation is required,
accomplishment will be done per existing DOD and Service Component Guidance. In the absence of
other clearly overriding considerations, returned personnel will be assigned for medical care and treatment
to a hospital closest to the location of their dependents or designated next of kin.
g. Public Affairs Guidance. A Joint Information Bureau, will provide factual information
concerning returned personnel to the public through the news media subject to appropriate consideration
of security requirements, the welfare of the returned personnel and their families, the safety and interest of
other personnel who may still be detained. After evacuation from the theater, initial intelligence and
counterintelligence debriefing, public affairs counseling, and legal counseling have been completed,
personnel who desire to do so may grant interviews to representatives of the news media.
5. Command and Control. See Basic Plan.
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