62nd Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass Destruction)

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62nd Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass
Destruction)
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Purpose
To inform the audience about the mission and
capabilities of the Civil Support Teams (WMD)
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Definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

• The term weapon of mass destruction means
  any weapon or device that is intended, or has the
  capability, to cause death or serious bodily
  injury to a significant number of people through
  the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic
  or poisonous chemicals or their precursors a
  disease organism or radiation or radioactivity.

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WMD CBRNE

• Chemical
• Nerve
• Blister
• Blood
• Choking
• Chlorine
• Biological
• Botulism Toxin
• Anthrax
• Plague
• Ricin

• Radiological
• Medical, industrial equipment
• Cesium-137
• Cobalt-60
• Americium-241
• Nuclear
• Fissile material (uranium or plutonium)
• High-yield Explosives

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Civil Support Teams Key Characteristics

• Must be certified by the Secretary of Defense
• Operate only in the United States and territories
• Total of 57 teams (one in each state, two in CA,
  FL and NY, one in each territory (GU, VI, PR, DC)
• Main role is support to Governor IC (analytic,
  advisory, civil-military interface and
  communications functions
• CSTs are under State control unless federalized
• Sophisticated Reachback System
• Interoperable with Civil Responders

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Mission
Support civil authorities at a domestic CBRNE
incident site by identifying CBRNE
agents/substances, assessing current and
projected consequences, advising on response
measures, and assisting with appropriate requests
for additional support.(Analytic, advisory,
civil-military interface and communications
functions)
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Response Bridge
Federal Response
Local
State
CST Bridge
Response
Time
24 hours
4 hours
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Organizational Diagram
Commander
Deputy Commander

Logistics NCO
Operations Operations Officer Sr. Operations
NCO Training NCO Hazard Modeling
NCO Communications NCO Info Systems NCO
Medical Med Opns Off Physicians Asst. Nuclear
Med Off Medical NCO
Personnel/ Admin NCO
Surv Mon Tm Ldr NBC Recon NCO
Survey Monitoring Team Team Chief Team
Member Team Member
Survey Monitoring Team Team Chief Team
Member Team Member
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Training

• Individual/Institutional
• Civil Support Skills Course
• Position-specific specialized training
• Team/Unit/Collective
• Home Station
• Annual Observed/Controlled Collective Exercises
• External Evaluation for re-certification (every
  18 months)
• Post Certification Training/Exercises
• Commander-driven, sustain training level
• Integrated with local and regional first
  responders

Average Specialized training 650 hrs
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ADVON Suburban
Provides the CST Commanders with capabilities
to Assist incident command enroute to incident
location, Coordinate with reachback resources
on the move, Provide internet, phone,
interoperable communications in minutes.
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Unified Command Suite (UCS)
Radios HF/UHF/VHF SATCOM INMARSAT Phones DSN/Comme
rcial Data NIPRNET SIPRNET Video Collaborative
Video Conferencing Tools Interoperability ACU-1000
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Communication Hub
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Survey and Monitoring Equipment

• Detection Equipment
• HAPSITE (GC/Mass Spectrometer)
• HAZMAT ID
• Level A, B, C Suits/Military Protective Suits
• M40 Protective Masks (Military Prot. Mask)
• M8 Paper (Chemical ID Paper)
• M9 Paper (Chemical Detection Paper)
• M256 Kit (Military Field Detection Kit)
• Radiation Detection Devices (UDR13, PDR77)
• Chemical Alarm (M22)
• Improved Chemical Agent Monitor (ICAM)
• Field Bio Immunoassay Tickets
• AHURA First Defender
• Multi Raes / V-Raes / Area Raes
• Identifinder

• Can Detect
• Military Chemical Agents (Nerve, Blood,
• Choking, Blister, Irritants)
• Toxic Industrial Chemicals
• Over 200,000 Toxic Chemicals
• Oxygen/Oxidizer Levels
• Volatile Organic Compounds
• Lower/Upper Explosive Limits
• Biological Agents (Viruses, Toxins,
• Rickettsia, Bacteria)
• Anthrax, Plague, Cholera, Smallpox, Ricin, Q
  Fever, VEE, Tularemia

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Analytical Laboratory System

• One Class III Containment Glove Box
• Benchtop GC/MS
• Fluorescent Microscope
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry
• Illuminator (Smiths)
• Immunoassay Tickets
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• JBAIDS (Idaho Tech)
• Electrochemiluminescent Detector M1M (Rooch)

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CST (WMD) Capabilities

• Detect and completely characterize suspected WMD
  agents/substances
• Provide onsite mobile analytical platform to
  perform analysis and characterization of unknown
  samples and provide assessment
• Determine the current contaminated area, and
  assess current and potential hazards
• Advise civil authorities as to initial casualty
  medical management and casualty minimization
  measures
• Advise civil authorities as to initial agent/site
  containment and mitigation measures

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WMD-CST Capabilities (cont)

• Advise civil authorities of potential additional
  support assets, and assist with requests for such
  assets.
• Provide incident-related technical and
  situational awareness information to and from
  nationwide sources
• Link to and augment civil responder
  communications systems. Maintain real time
  operational communications
• Provide decontamination of assigned personnel and
  equipment, and advise IC on setting up a
  decontamination site.

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WMD-CST Capabilities (cont)

• Provide preventive medicine, medical surveillance
  and EMT-level medical care for assigned
  personnel.
• Rapidly deploy by organic vehicles and/or
  non-organic transportation assets
• Command and control WMD-CST elements and limited
  augmentation assets, and coordinate
  administrative and logistic support to WMD-CST.
• Participate in advanced planning, coordination
  and training processes
• Execute the above listed capabilities in
  accordance with applicable state and federal laws

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Typical Request Procedure
Local community
Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness
Governors Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness
State Coordinating Officer (SEMA)
The Adjutant General
62nd CST (WMD)
Incident Commander
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Questions?
The National Guard will be the operational force
for Homeland Defense - White House, Homeland
Security Council February 2006
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Points of Contact
MAJ Cameron Magee Commander 62nd CST (WMD) (225)
319-4723 cameron.magee_at_us.army.mil 1LT
Christopher Perkins Medical Operations
Officer 62nd CST (WMD) [phone] c.perkins_at_us
.army.mil
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62nd CST
Weapons of Mass Destruction