care and disposition of missing and deceased personnel, including personal effects (PE). Based on the guidance and direction of the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), the Joint Mortuary Affairs Program provides guidance to the combatant commands (CCMDs) and Services. The combatant commanders (CCDRs) develop implementation plans based on CJCS policy and doctrine. Each Service implements the doctrine. The Joint Mortuary Affairs Program provides support across the range of military operations for: a. Search, recovery, identification (ID), evacuation, temporary interment, disinterment, contamination mitigation, and reinterment of deceased US military personnel, US civilians and others (when requested by the Department of State [DOS]), and multinational partner, third country, local national, and adversary personnel. These mortuary affairs (MA) functions may be performed, under the civil support construct, in support of federal, state, or tribal authorities when requested by a jurisdictional federal department or agency and authorized by SecDef. b. Operating MA processing points during military operations. MA processing points include mortuary affairs collection points (MACPs), theater mortuary evacuation points (TMEPs), MA processing points for contaminated remains, temporary interment sites, PE depots, and Department of Defense (DOD) mortuaries. c. Preparing and coordinating shipment of human remains to the place designated by the person authorized to direct disposition of human remains (PADD). d. Operation of the port mortuary at Dover Air Force Base (AFB), Delaware, and DOD mortuaries outside the continental United States (OCONUS) for the preparation of human remains and coordination of final disposition. Establishment of other port mortuaries, if so directed. Note: The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) may, for logistical or operational purposes, delegate the use of an OCONUS mortuary. e. Collecting, inventorying, storing, and processing PE of deceased and missing US military personnel, US civilians and others (when requested by DOS), and multinational partner, third country, local national, and adversary personnel. f. Developing standards and specifications for the preparation of human remains, cremation, caskets, and urns. g. Compilation of records and other data to support search and recovery (S&R) of human remains during operations in the theater. h. Developing standard policies and procedures for implementation of the Joint Mortuary Affairs Program.