Mission Statement
Shape Personnel Recovery for the Department of Defense and enable commanders, forces, and individuals to effectively accomplish their Personnel Recovery responsibilities.

Shape Personnel Recovery for the Department of Defense … One of our key responsibilities is to keep PR guidance and doctrine relevant. JPRA provides inputs to OSD and JS guidance and leads the update of PR joint doctrine publications. Integrating PR elements into Service entry-level, technical, and professional military education programs so the joint force knows the PR mission area is another important work area. Basic military training covers entry-level code of conduct training for military personnel, but further education is needed at follow-on technical training and enlisted and officer professional development courses. Helping the Services address PR capability requirements in their modernization programs and blending PR elements into USJFCOM joint concept development and experimentation initiatives will also shape the future of PR.

… and enable commanders, forces, and individuals to effectively accomplish their Personnel Recovery responsibilities. Ultimately JPRA plays an important role in ensuring commanders and staffs, recovery forces, and individuals are adequately organized, trained, and equipped to accomplish the PR mission elements of report, locate, support, recover, and reintegrate. We support the warfighter with education and training for commanders and staffs, reviews of their PR programs, assistance with joint exercises, and helping them with mission rehearsals. We also oversee Service SERE training and conduct specialized code of conduct training. Key to our success will be keeping these important education and training programs as well as our SERE products current so they will continue to meet the warfighter's needs.