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(Annex Title) ANNEX E (PROTECTION) TO OPERATION PLAN/ORDER [number] [(codename)]—[issuing headquarters] [(classification of title)]

(References) References: List documents essential to understanding the attachment

List maps and charts first. Map entries include series number, country, sheet names or numbers, edition, and scale.

List other references in subparagraphs labeled as shown.

Doctrinal references for protection include ADRP 3-0, ADRP 3-37, ADRP 3-90, AR 385-10, AR 525-13, AR 525-28, AR 530-1, ATP 3-37.34, ATP 4-32, DA Pamphlet 385-10, FM 3-01, FM 3-11, FM 3-13, FM 3-50.1, FM 4-02.7, FM 4-02.17, FM 4-02.18, FM 4-02.19, FM 4-02.51, FM 5-19, and FM 6-0..

Time Zone Used Throughout the Order: Write the time zone established in the base plan or order.

(U Mil para) Situation. Provide situational information affecting the protection tasks and systems that paragraph 1 of the OPLAN or OPORD does not cover or that needs expansion.

Area of Interest. Describe the area of interest as it impacts protection. Identify area of interest characteristics and hazards (including health hazards) that require coordinated protection actions to preserve the force. Refer to Annex B (Intelligence) as required.

Area of Operations. Describe the area of operations as it impacts protection. Identify and describe the area of operation’s characteristics and hazards that require coordinated protection actions to preserve the force. Refer to Annex C (Operations) as required.

Terrain. Describe the aspects of terrain that impact protection operations. Identify terrain features in the area of interest and area of operations that create a hazard or enhance the threat. Specify protection actions that may be required as a result of the terrain. Identify terrain that may benefit protection capabilities. Refer to Annex B (Intelligence) as required.

Weather. Describe the aspects of weather that impact protection operations, tasks, and systems. Refer to Appendix 2 (Safety) to Annex E (Protection) and Annex B (Intelligence) as required.

Enemy Forces. List known and templated locations and activities of enemy protection units for one echelon up and two echelons down. List enemy maneuver and other area capabilities that will impact friendly operations. State expected enemy courses of action and employment of enemy protection assets. Include consideration of civil disturbances and criminal acts. Narrow the focus to offensive- minded threats that require planning, resources, and actions to protect the force. Refer to Annex B (Intelligence) as required.

Friendly Forces. Outline the higher headquarters’ protection plan. List designation, location, and outline of plan of higher, adjacent, and other protection assets that support or impact the issuing headquarters or require coordination and additional support. List areas of the operation most vulnerable to enemy attack or adverse influence.

Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Nongovernmental Organizations. Identify and describe other organizations in the area of operations that may impact the conduct of protection operations or impact protection specific equipment and tactics. Outline the results of the risk management process to mitigate the risk of fratricide. Enhance continual situational understanding by frequently updating data of friendly forces. Describe the method and timing of the data updates. Refer to Annex V (Interagency Coordination) as required.

Civil Considerations. Describe the aspects of the civil situation that impact protection operations. Refer to Annex B (Intelligence) and Annex K (Civil Affairs Operations) as required.

Attachments and Detachments. List units attached or detached only as necessary to clarify task organization. Refer to Annex A (Task Organization) as required.

Assumptions. List any protection-specific assumptions that support the annex development.

Mission. State the protection mission in support of the base plan or order.

Execution.

Scheme of Protection. Describe how the protection tasks and systems support the commander’s intent and concept of operations. Establish the priorities of support to units for each phase of the operation. If required information for a specific protection task or system is brief, include it in this paragraph and eliminate the associated appendix. Refer to the base order and Annex C (Operations) as required.

Operational Area Security. State the scheme of operational area security and overall area security objective. Describe how operational area security supports the commander’s intent, the maneuver plan, and protection priorities. Direct how each element of the force will cooperate to accomplish operational area security and tie that to support of the operation with the task and purpose statement. Discuss how operational area security orients on the force, installation, route, area, or asset to be protected. Discuss how operational area security is often an economy of force role assigned in some manner to many organizations. Discuss how operational area security is often designed to ensure the continued conduct of sustainment operations and to support decisive and shaping operations. Describe how forces engaged in area security operations saturate an area or position on key terrain to provide protection through early warning, reconnaissance, or surveillance and guard against unexpected enemy attack with an active response. Discuss the role of response forces in the operational area security scheme. Refer to Appendix 1 (Operational Area Security) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Safety. Describe how mission-dictated safety program requirements support the commander’s intent and concept of operations. Describe how safety tasks and functions are prioritized to eliminate or mitigate hazards on a greatest risk first basis to support the unit. Refer to Appendix 2 (Safety) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Operations Security. Describe how operations security applies to all operations. All units conduct operations security to preserve essential secrecy from threat exploitation, and support the commander’s intent and concept of operations. Describe the general concept and any additional operations security measures with other staff and command elements, and synchronize with adjacent units. Refer to Appendix 3 (Operations Security) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Identify actions that can be observed by threat intelligence systems.

Determine indicators of threat intelligence that systems might obtain which could be interpreted or pieced together to derive critical information in time to be useful to the threat.

Describe how to execute measures that eliminate or reduce (to an acceptable level) the vulnerabilities of friendly actions.

Intelligence Support to Protection. Describe how providing intelligence supports measures that the command takes to remain viable and functional by protecting itself from the effects of threat activities. Describe how it also provides intelligence that supports recovery from threat actions. It includes analyzing the threats, hazards, and other aspects of an operational environment and using the intelligence preparation of the battlefield process to describe the operational environment and identify threats and hazards that may impact protection. Refer to Appendix 4 (Intelligence Support to Protection) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Physical Security. Describe how physical security consists of physical measures that are designed to safeguard personnel; to prevent unauthorized access to equipment, installations, material, and documents; and to safeguard them against espionage, sabotage, damage, and theft. Refer to Appendix 5 (Physical Security Procedures) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Antiterrorism. State the overall antiterrorism objective. Describe how the commander envisions antiterrorism measures in support of the scheme of protection that supports the concept of operations in the base order. It should stress detection, deterrence, and mitigation of the terrorist threat in the applicable environment (in-transit, on a base, during operations, and in protection of host-nation and local civilians). Refer to Appendix 6 (Antiterrorism) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Police Operations. Describe how police operations encompass policing and the associated law enforcement activities to control and protect populations and resources and to facilitate the existence of a lawful and orderly environment. Describe how police operations are conducted across the range of military operations. As the operation transitions and the operational environment stabilizes, civil control efforts are implemented and the rule of law is established. Refer to Appendix 7 (Police Operations) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Survivability Operations. Describe how personnel and physical assets have inherent survivability qualities or capabilities that can be enhanced through various means and methods. When existing terrain features offer insufficient cover and concealment, survivability can be enhanced by altering the physical environment to provide or improve cover and concealment. Describe how natural or artificial materials may be used as camouflage to confuse, mislead, or evade the enemy or adversary. Refer to Appendix 8 (Survivability Operations) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Force Health Protection. Describe how force health protection supports the commander’s intent and concept of operations. Establish the priorities of support to units for each phase of the operation. Identify and describe medical defensive measures to be taken (chemoprophylaxis, pretreatments, and barrier creams) in the event of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear operations. Identify and describe any chemoprophylaxis requirements for endemic diseases (such as malaria). Describe medical and occupational and environmental health surveillance activities which will be established. Identify and describe food safety and food defense activities to include inspection of Class I rations. Refer to Appendix 9 (Force Health Protection) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense. Describe how the chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense unit supports the commander’s intent and concept of operations. Establish the priorities of support to units or the concept for employing chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense units for each phase of the operation. Detail the priority of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense reconnaissance support to the maneuver forces based on the mission and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense threat. Focus on the commander’s guidance, mission, and intent. Emphasize how chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense operations affect readiness and warfighting capability. Refer to Appendix 10 (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal. Describe how explosive ordnance disposal supports the commander’s intent and concept of operations. Establish the priorities of explosive ordnance disposal support to units for each phase of the operation. Refer to Appendix 11 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Coordinate Air and Missile Defense. Describe how air and missile defense protects the force from missile attack, air attack, and aerial surveillance by ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, conventional fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, and unmanned aircraft systems. Indirect-fire protection systems protect forces from threats that are largely immune to air defense artillery systems. Describe how protection cell planners coordinate with the air defense airspace management cell for air and missile defense for the protection of the critical asset list and defended asset list and for other air and missile defense protection as required. Refer to Appendix 12 (Coordinate Air and Missile Defense) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Personnel Recovery. Describe the manner in which subordinate units execute personnel recovery operations in support of the mission, including phasing and the principal tasks to accomplish. This narrative of how the operation will proceed includes support from host-nation, coalition, and multinational forces and capabilities. Discuss the roles of specialized personnel recovery assets from other Services and special operations forces (for unconventional assisted recovery). Refer to Appendix 13 (Personnel Recovery) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Detainee and Resettlement. Describe how detainee and resettlement operations are conducted by military police to shelter, sustain, guard, protect, and account for populations (detainees, dislocated civilians, and U.S. military prisoners) as a result of military or civil conflict and natural or man-made disasters or to facilitate criminal prosecution. Refer to Appendix 14 (Detainee and Resettlement) to Annex E (Protection) as required.

Tasks to Subordinate Units. List protection tasks assigned to specific subordinate units not contained in the base order.

Coordinating Instructions. List only instructions applicable to two or more subordinate units not covered in the base plan or order. Identify any nonstandard operating procedure type of information that will enhance protection by coordinated actions. Examples include personnel identification, vehicle identification, and control measures. Provide additional coordinating instructions for the following:

Critical Asset List. Identify, assess, and prioritize all critical assets and develop a critical asset list for a given area of operations.

Defended Asset List. Develop measures (forces and procedures) to mitigate threats against critical assets. The defended asset list is a listing of those assets from the critical asset list prioritized by the joint force commander to be defended with the resources available.

Criticality Assessment. The criticality assessment identifies key assets that are required to accomplish a mission. It addresses the impact of a temporary or permanent loss of key assets or the unit ability to conduct a mission. It should also include high-population facilities (recreational centers, theaters, sports venues) which may not be mission-essential. It examines the costs of recovery and reconstitution, including time, expense, capability, and infrastructure support. The staff gauges how quickly a lost capability can be replaced before giving an accurate status to the commander.

Vulnerability Assessment. The vulnerability assessment identifies physical characteristics or procedures that render critical assets, areas, infrastructures, or special events vulnerable to known or potential threats and hazards. The staff addresses “who” or “what” is vulnerable and “how” it is vulnerable.

Capability Assessment. Capability assessment of an organization determines its current capacity to perform protection tasks based on the integrated material and nonmaterial readiness of the assets. A capability assessment considers the mitigating effects of existing manpower, procedures, and equipment. It is especially important in identifying capability gaps, which may be addressed to reduce the consequences of a specific threat or hazard.

Essential Elements of Friendly Information.

Date-time group, location, size, disposition, and flight path of aviation units in the area of operations.

Date-time group, location, size, disposition, and mobility of units in the area of operations.

Location and disposition of command nodes.

Sustainment plans and sustainment operations.

Methods of locating and neutralizing enemy weapons of mass destruction and tactical ballistic missile capabilities.

Sustainment, operational, intelligence, command, control, and communication limitations and vulnerabilities.

Vulnerabilities that could be exploited to recue or eliminate international support of ongoing operations.

Risk Reduction Control Measures. Provide the required information in the blank spaces.

Air and Missile Defense Warning:

Air and Missile Defense Weapon Control Status:

Operational Exposure Guidance:

Mission-Oriented Protective Posture:

Force Protection Level:

Information Operations Condition Level:

Operations Security:

Sustainment. Identify priorities of sustainment for key protection tasks and specify additional instructions as required. Refer to Annex F (Sustainment) as required.

Logistics. Use subparagraphs to identify priorities and specific instructions for protection logistics support. Refer to Annex F (Sustainment) and Annex P (Host-Nation Support) as required.

Personnel. Use subparagraphs to identify priorities and specific instructions for human resources support, financial management, legal support, and religious support. Refer to Annex F (Sustainment) as required.

Health Service Support. Identify availability, priorities, and instructions for medical care. Address treatment and medical evacuation issues affecting protection forces and synchronize health threat reporting and statistics (such as the disease and nonbattle injury rate). Refer to Annex F (Sustainment) as required.

Command and Signal.

Command.

Location of the Commander and Key Leaders. State the location of the commander and key protection leaders.

Succession of Command. State the succession of command if not covered in the unit’s standard operating procedure

Liaison Requirements. State the protection liaison requirements not covered in the unit’s standard operating procedures.

Control.

Command Posts. Describe the employment of protection-specific command posts, including the location of each command post and its time of opening and closing.

Reports. List protection-specific reports not covered in standard operating procedures. Refer to Annex R (Reports) as required.

Signal. Address any protection-specific communications requirements. Refer to Annex H (Signal) as required.

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[Commander’s rank]

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(Note) The commander or authorized representative signs the original copy of the attachment. If the representative signs the original, add the phrase “For the Commander.” The signed copy is the historical copy and remains in the headquarters’ files.

(Official) OFFICIAL:

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[Authenticator’s position]

(Note) Use only if the commander does not sign the original attachment. If the commander signs the original, no further authentication is required. If the commander does not sign, the signature of the preparing staff officer requires authentication and only the last name and rank of the commander appear in the signature block.

(Attachments) ATTACHMENTS: List lower-level attachment (appendixes, tabs, and exhibits). When an attachment required by doctrine or a standard operating procedure is unnecessary, label it “Omitted.” Unit standard operating procedures will dictate attachment development and format. Common attachments include the following:

Appendix 1–Operational Area Security

Appendix 2–Safety

Appendix 3–Operations Security

Appendix 4–Intelligence Support to Protection

Appendix 5–Physical Security

Appendix 6–Antiterrorism

Appendix 7–Police Operations

Appendix 8–Survivability Operations

Appendix 9–Force Health Protection

Appendix 10–Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense

Appendix 11–Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Appendix 12–Coordinate Air and Missile Defense

Appendix 13–Personnel Recovery

Appendix 14–Detainee and Resettlement

(Distribution) DISTRIBUTION: Show only if distributed separately from the base order or higher-level attachments.

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