Conference Day One: 9th December, 2008

09.00 Chairman’s Welcome & Opening Address

Major Bart Holewijn
Staff Officer, Combat Support Branch
NATO JAPCC

09.10 Recovering Missing Personnel

• Mission of the office of POW/Missing Personnel Affairs
• The rescue of individuals who fall in harm’s way as a result of conflict
• Real world Personnel Recovery (PR) scenarios facing diplomatic efforts to bring missing personnel

Colonel David Ellis (USAF)
Principal Director of the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Affairs
US DoD

09.50 Mission Of The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency

• Operational challenges of PR
• Some development challenges of PR

Colonel Steven C. Shepard (USAF)
Commander, Joint Personnel Recovery Agency
US Joint Forces Command

10:30 Ground Extraction: Special Forces Perspective

This briefing looks at the importance of the army perspective to JPR, lessons learned from operations and the current thinking to personnel recovery in the US Special Forces

Colonel Daniel Enoch
Special Forces, HQ TRADOC/ARCIC
United States Army

11:30 Italian Combat Search And Rescue

• CSAR capability and assets: Including upgrades to the HH-3 Pelican
• The Combined Joint Rescue Co-Ordination Centre (CJRCC)
• Lessons from operations

Colonel Fabio Rinaldi
Deputy Chief Ops, Air Force Command
Italian Air Force

12:10 Personnel Recovery In The French Armed Forces

• Transfer of PR capability to the Air Force
• Operational experience in Northern Afghanistan: Theatre Personnel Recovery missions
• Ground extraction: a French perspective of ‘boots on the ground’

Lieutenant Herve Dechoux
JPR/CSAR Liaison Officer UK
French Air Force

13:50 The European Air Group

• Aligning European nations with JPR aspirations
• Progression to date
• Interoperability challenges
• The way forward

Lieutenant Colonel Uwe Schleimer
SO1 JPR-1
European Air Group

14:30 Nato Full Spectrum Jpr Concepts

• Concept of JPR and current status
• Efforts for the future including developing standards for courses and improving the exchange of information
• The future: Unchartered waters

Major Bart Holewijn
Staff Officer, Combat Support Branch
NATO JAPCC

15:40 Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape (sere) Training

• Overview of UK SERE practices
• Focus on Survival and adaptation to new environments
• Adapting lessons from recent operations for effective training
• Enhancing overall capability through coordination of available assets

Commander David Pledger
Royal Navy, Commanding Officer of the Defence SERE Training Centre (DSTC)
UK MoD

16:20 Combat Search And Rescue: A Perspective From Germany

• Current capabilities of CSAR
• NH-90 platform and capabilities: Looking towards dedicated CSAR assets
• C3 challenges with Theatre Personnel Recovery Missions

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Schneider
Head Special Operations Branch
German MoD

17:00 Chairman’s Summary & End Of Day One

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