The field-training exercise focused on capturing, transporting, and processing prisoners; establishing forward and division central collection points (DCCPs); performing sustainment operations; and learning the "five S's" (silence, search, segregate, speed, and safeguard).
Key tasks included supporting breach and berm-crossing operations, establishing forward collection points (FCPs) along the battlespace, establishing multiple DCCPs, conducting route signing for the march north, and performing convoy security operations.
* Locate the DCCP so that DCs will not suffer any greater exposure to the effects of combat than they would without the DCCP.
* Establish local security to protect the persons operating the DCCP, the occupants, and friendly troops adjacent to it or passing by.
* Post guards at the entrance and exit of the DCCP. Give them special orders, as required.
When the search is over, the driver and the searchers together move the vehicle or livestock cart to the vehicle hold area in accordance with the model DCCP layout (Figure 3).
If a female searcher is not at the DCCP but is close enough to get there in a reasonable time, defer these searches until she arrives; set the people aside until then so that they are not a potential danger to others.
This part of operating a deliberate DCCP may be deferred for a while, but a full waiver is not advisable, as a general practice.