Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 4. PROCEDURES: a. Procedures for handling and processing CEM. (1) The recovery and evacuation of CEM is a command responsibility at all levels. The prescribed method of evacuation is through normal logistics channels and in accordance with priorities established in Tab A and Tab B to this Appendix. (2) Enemy materiel captured by US military personnel is the property of the United States and must be protected from pilferage, cannibalizing, and souvenir hunters. Commanders at all levels will provide adequate security for CEM until it has been screened by TECHINT personnel.
(3) Specific intelligence collection requirements and Top Ten End Item requirements items of enemy materiel for which the tactical commander and intelligence agencies have a need are listed at Tab A and Tab B to this Appendix. These Tabs will be published upon execution of the OPLAN. (a) When items listed in Tab A and Tab B or any of their updates are captured or otherwise obtained, commanders will ensure that the acquisition is reported through intelligence channels to the Corps TECHINT LNE to Cdr, CMEC, with an information copy to J2/G2.
(b) Report as in (a) above (at a PRIORITY precedence) the capture of standard types of foreign materiel that have been apparently modified in a major way or are having a greater impact on combat operations than expected. These items will be evacuated to COSCOM collection points by available backhaul capabilities on a PRIORITY basis. Equipment will be held pending further disposition instructions from the J2 through the Corps TECHINT LNE. (c) The capture of items listed in Tab A and Tab B will be reported by IMMEDIATE precedence through intelligence channels and expeditiously evacuated to at least the supporting collection point to await further disposition instructions from J2.
(d) Report as in (a) above (at a ROUTINE precedence) all CEM. These items will be evacuated to collection points by available backhaul capabilities on a space-available basis. They will be held at the collection point until screened by TECHINT personnel. Disposition will be per paragraph 4d below. (e) The J2, in coordination with the J4, is the focal point for evacuation of key items of intelligence interest to CONUS for national exploitation. Figure D-2. Example of a Joint Theater TECHINT Appendix (continued) . D-7