Civil Support Teams
Civil Support Teams (CST) have become a significant force multiplier of the Department of Defense domestic CBRN response capabilities. They have also become a resource that Local and Federal Response agencies have heavily relied upon for assistance during events that have overwhelmed their capabilities. Civil Support Teams are involved in the public safety and emergency planning of large scale events nationwide. They have also been utilized for real world response events to assist civilian response agencies with any request that is deemed to be within the parameters of their mission set. These teams are comprised of 22 Title-32 National Guard soldiers that remain on call 365 days a year prepared to deploy in support
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Florida, California, and New York each have two teams. They are joint units with eighteen Army National Guard and four Air National Guard personnel that are all Active Guard Reserve positions. The team is commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel and has an Army or Air Force First Sergeant. There are six sections within the unit: Command, Operations, Decontamination, Communications, Medical and Survey. Each of these positions requires extensive training both in their MOS and CST mandated training to become fully qualified for their assigned position. Some of the capabilities within the unit include a fully equipped CBRN Reconnaissance Team, secure and unsecure communications suite, technical decontamination line, medical response section with a Physician’s Assistant and Medical Operations Officer, ISO Certified Mobile Analytical Laboratory, and Hazard Prediction Plume Modeler. Each of these capabilities provides the Incident Commander with an arsenal of tools to help mitigate any situation that may …show more content…
A Civil Support Team will not directly assume Command of an incident upon arrival to the scene. Their role is to support the requesting authorities. The Civil Support Teams primary mission while deployed is to identify, advise, assist, and assess while on scene. Identification occurs while the Recon Team implements their equipment to get preliminary findings and samples for analysis. The Operations Cell is responsible for assessing all information and providing a clear continuity of operation and information flow to the Incident Commander. The CST Commander will utilize all the information at hand to advise the incident Commander and help solidify their decisions. The entire unit will assist the Incident Commander by augmenting their response force as needed with specific task sets. During these four tasks the CST Commander will remain in constant contact with the Incident Commander keeping them abreast of any relevant information and continuously monitoring the
Critical Social Work practice is an ideological framework that bridges the gap between a dichotomous approach, in which there is struggle between delivering services to the individual or targeting social structures (Salas et al., 2010, p. 91). A practitioner analyzes both the macro and micro levels to determine the best course of action (Hayden, 2016). York University uses critical social work as their framework to avoid a dichotomous practice by presenting an innovative mission statement which is in align with the theory’s principles shaping the profession.
...vival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) level C+, and helicopter overwater survival training (Dunker School) just to name a few of the school these soldiers will go through. They use special equipped helicopters that include AH-6, MH-6, MH-60’s, and MH-47 helicopters. Soldiers in this unit also have to maintain a SECERT security clearance.
personnel and equipment they have and use to complete their missions. The Civil Support Team
The SPCC was initially designed to be conducted at Fort Lee, VA for 7.5 days; Fort Eustis, VA, for 1.5 days; Human Resource Command (active duty and United States Army Reserve officers) and National Guard Readiness Center (National Guard Bureau officers) for 1 day. Currently, the en...
(FOUO) The mission of the CRD is to plan, conduct, and provide CBRN reconnaissance and surveillance support for special operations forces in support of strategic, operational, and tactical objectives in all operational environments to support functional and geographic combatant commander intents and objectives. (ATP 3-11.24)
The Technical Escort Unit (TEU) now provides the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to include the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an immediate response capability for chemical and biological warfare material. Its mission is to provide a global response for escorting, packaging, detection, rendering-safe, disposing, sampling, analytics, and remediation missions. This does not only include chemical weapons for which it was originally created, but now incorporates biological weapons, state sponsored laboratories, small independent laboratories and small non-weaponized radioactive materials. Most recently, they have been task organized to assist Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) as a force multiplier; the objective of this is to give the Battle Field Commander instant on the ground intelligence regarding Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) hazards within their Area of Operations (AO). With this new mission with the BCT, the TEU is becoming an expeditionary force.
The Special Forces have always been an elite unit that the American people, all military members, and the rest of the world could view as the best of the best. Building this reputation is just like in any other unit, there are support elements specifically designed to be able to assist the Special Forces to accomplish any mission, impeccably by land, sea, or air. Special Forces Groups contain two chemical detachments; the Chemical Decontamination Detachment and the Chemical Reconnaissance Detachment. The mission of the Special Operations Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (SOF CBRN) forces is to provide Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) reconnaissance and surveillance support for Special Operating Forces (SOF) in support of strategic, operational, and tactical objectives in all environments (Army, 2007).
This is an overview of the Chemical Defense Training Facility (CDTF) which is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. It is a compilation of information from multiple sources found on the World Wide Web, printed materials, audio/visual media, and a personal interview. The covered topics will be: The history of the CDTF to include its beginning at Fort McClellan, the mission of the CDTF at Fort Leonard Wood, the current leadership, the capability of its facilities, and the training conducted there. It emphasizes the need for a facility where members of all the services of the Department of Defense (DOD), some civilian agency personnel, and foreign entities can receive realistic training. The common theme is the safety with which training has been, and continues to be conducted within its facilities.
The National response plan outlines four key actions the disaster coordinator should take. They are gaining and maintaining situational awareness, activate and deploy key resources and capabilities, coordinating response actions and demobilizing. Throughout the response it is essential that responders have access to critical information. During the initial response effort the situation is will change rapidly. Situational awareness starts at the incident site. For this reason it is essential that decision makers have access to the right information at the right time. By establishing an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) all key responders are brought ...
Readiness is of the utmost importance with training being the most significant aspect that contributes to Readiness. Each Soldier needs an individual training plan. The plan should take the Soldier from enlistment to discharge or retirement. It is each Soldiers responsibility to be proficient in their field craft. This includes being fit mentally and physically, and trained to win in a complex world. It is the responsibility of the NCO to train these Soldiers. Unit training plans will address the readiness and resilience of individual Soldiers to ensure their fitness to accomplish their mission. Units must conduct realistic training at the individual, squad, platoon and company levels focused on Mission Essential Tasks (METs) for their
Providing advocacy and support to survivors and their allies through a coordinated community response effort” (Think S.A.F.E).
For example, the state of Michigan will host one of the first three-cyber protection teams established by the National Guard. Cyber protection team members will begin their assignment with intensive specialized cyber training in order to qualify as Army Cyber Soldiers. These academically challenging cyber courses are planed for a four to twelve months in duration and are held in multiple locations, including beginning to intermediate levels of challenging instruction in the program. When fully trained, captain members will be responsible for conducting defensive cyberspace operations, readiness inspections, and vulnerability assessments, as well as a variety of other cyber roles and
Firstly we will be looking at the advantages of combined search and rescue teams for logistical planning in a typical EMS system. This will involve many different companies and different skill levels which could make the planning process a lot easier since there will be a big variety of expertise and the input for the planning will be much easier. Logistically the involvement of multiple agencies will also prov...
The place that acts as an intermediary between a person reporting and rescue coordination centre or rescue sub-centre.
Search and rescue are two totally different activities. Search and Rescue is team work. Communication is more vital during SAR incident and the planning. After the incident search and rescue unit should be returned to a location where they are debriefed, refueled, replenished, and prepared for other activities and completion of all required documentation. Search and rescue demands critical thinking. SAR team personnel should be well trained and qualified.