Active duty personnel are reassigned according to the HQDA reconstitution plan. Strategic reconstitution of the total force is initiated as part of the mobilization planning phase. Although the focus is generally on units and individuals, significant resources, such as supplies, materiel, and support activities, are dedicated to the demobilization of logistics. Completion of equipment recovery operations and actions to reconstitute units to premobilization levels of readiness require additional resources, to include manpower support, funding, and time. Personnel and equipment return together by air.
Personnel return by air and the equipment follows at a later date by surface.
Equipment remaining in the AOR is laterally transferred to either the supported commander or the gaining unit in country. For purposes of demobilization, these installations are designated as DMSs. Deployed Units Units are released by the supported commander. Unit personnel redeploy back to an APOD and are returned to their original MS for demobilization processing. Personnel who were reassigned to serve in other locations or activities are reassembled with their units prior to demobilization.