PROCESS CAPTURED

MATERIEL
301-371-1200

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 PROCESS CAPTURED
MATERIEL

THIS BLOCK OF INSTRUCTION IS

UNCLASSIFIED

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 Captured Enemy Materiel
(CEM):

■ Captured Enemy
Documents (CED)
■ Captured Enemy
Equipment (CEE)

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 Captured Enemy Documents:
■ Recorded information, regardless of
form
■ Obtained from the enemy
■ Subsequently comes into the hands of
a friendly force
■ Includes US or Allied documents that
were once in the hands of the enemy
■ Found on the battlefield

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 Captured Enemy Equipment
■ All Types of Foreign Material
■ Two Purposes:
• Military Application
• Technical Intelligence

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 CEM is the Property of the
United States ! ! !
■ Safeguard & Protect
from:
• Looting
• Cannibalization
• Misuse
• Souvenir Hunters
• Destruction

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 Time Sensitive Information:
■ Significant Intelligence Information
■ Information critical to successfully
accomplishing friendly courses of action
■ Includes:
• Enemy Order of Battle
• Enemy Maps, Overlays
• Enemy Operation Orders
• Enemy Signals, Codes
• New Weapons or Equipment
• Information indicating a significant change in the
enemy’s capabilities or intentions
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 Spot Report Format
■ S - Size
■ A - Activity
■ L - Location
■ U - Unit
■ T - Time
■ E - Equipment

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 TO BE AFFIXED TO
CAPTURED ENEMY EQUIPMENT
DO NOT DISTURB

NOMENCLATURE: MT-140-A
SERIAL NO: 1234567
DATE/PLACE CAPTURED: 02 FEB 99
CA 123456
CAPTURING UNIT: 2 INF CO/2/3 REGT
QUANTITY: ONE EACH
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BELOW FOR USE BY TECH INTEL UNITS ONLY
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NOTICE
THIS EQUIPMENT IS BEING HELD FOR:

ANALYSIS
UTILIZATION
DESTRUCTION
BY AUTHORITY OF THE JOINT U.S. FORCES COMMANDER.

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SIGNATURE PRINTED NAME

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UNIT DATE
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 Documents Associated with
Equipment
■ Attach a Coversheet, marked
“TECHDOC” to the CED
■ Coversheet should include:
• Precise location
• time
• circumstances of capture
• detailed description of the materiel
■ Treat all documents marked
“TECHDOC” with the highest priority
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 Field Expedient
Disposition Methods
■ Use field expedient methods of
disposition in the absence of weather-
resistant preprinted tags

• Rations packing
• Whatever paper materials are available

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 TAG, But Do Not Deface the Item
■ All markings already on the materiel
should be preserved
■ TAG, so as not to damage or destroy
the document or equipment
■ Never write on the document or
equipment itself

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 DISPOSITION of CEM
■ Evacuate time senistive CEM through
chain of command to S-2
■ Screen for intelligence or techinical
value
■ Evacuate to the rear

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 All Other CEM
■ Logistical assets (petroleum, supplies)
are handled as similar US items
■ Some items require special handling:
• Medical supplies can ONLY be used for
EPWs, refugees, indigenous population--
otherwise, leave in place unharmed
• For other items (NBC materials, ordnance,
special documents, such as maps, charts,
air imagery) check unit SOP or operation
order.
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 CAPTURED DOCUMENT LOG
Format
UNIT 16 INF DIV (L)
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FILE RECEIVED DOCUMENT INCOMING TRANS- FORWARDING RECEIVED TIME & PLACE OF
NO. DTG SERIAL NO. MISSION NO. UNIT BY CAPTURE (DTG)
0001 111910Z US-AR-1910 NA 4TH BDE ROYCE 110719ZNC123456
0002

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 ANY QUESTIONS?

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