DSCA Handbook

DSCA Handbook
Author: United States. Department of Defense
Publisher: United States Department of Defense
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN:

This two-in one resource includes the Tactical Commanders and Staff Toolkit plus the Liaison Officer Toolkit. Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA)) enables tactical level Commanders and their Staffs to properly plan and execute assigned DSCA missions for all hazard operations, excluding Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, high yield Explosives (CBRNE) or acts of terrorism. Applies to all United States military forces, including Department of Defense (DOD) components (Active and Reserve forces and National Guard when in Federal Status). This hand-on resource also may be useful information for local and state first responders. Chapter 1 contains background information relative to Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) including legal, doctinal, and policy issues. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the incident management processes including National Response Framework (NRF), National Incident Management Systems (NIMS), and Incident Command System (ICS) as well as Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Chapter 3 discuses the civilian and military responses to natural disaster. Chapter 4 provides a brief overview of Joint Operation Planning Process and mission analyis. Chapter 5 covers Defense Support of Civilian Authorities (DSCA) planning factors for response to all hazard events. Chapter 6 is review of safety and operational composite risk management processes Chapters 7-11 contain Concepts of Operation (CONOPS) and details five natrual hazards/disasters and the pertinent planning factors for each within the scope of DSCA.

Developing Navy Capability to Recover Forces in Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazard Environments

Developing Navy Capability to Recover Forces in Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazard Environments
Author: Adam C. Resnick
Publisher: Research Report
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780833081476

Recovering amphibious forces can be complicated if ashore forces are attacked with chemical, biological, or radiological weapons. These forces may cross-contaminate others with whom they come in contact. And if contaminants spread to equipment and vehicles, creating persistent hazards, those items may pose an additional cross-contamination risk. Although the preference is to decontaminate ashore forces in the operating environment or in a clean area elsewhere on land, this is not always feasible. Using a scenario involving a Marine Expeditionary Unit of 3,000 Marines—300 total contaminated service members, including 24 contaminated litter casualties and 75 contaminated ambulatory casualties—the researchers assess current policies and capabilities pertaining to the recovery and decontamination of ashore forces aboard ships and identify policy options the Navy could pursue to better perform this mission. They develop a set of policies to increase the Navy’s capability to recover and transport contaminated land forces to amphibious assault groups and propose doctrine to support operational decisions.

Joint Urban Operations

Joint Urban Operations
Author: Joint Chiefs Of Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-11
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9781782666073

This publication has been prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS). It sets forth joint doctrine to govern the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in joint operations and provides the doctrinal basis for interagency coordination and for US military involvement in multinational operations. It provides military guidance for the exercise of authority by combatant commanders and other joint force commanders (JFCs) and prescribes joint doctrine for operations, education, and training. It provides military guidance for use by the Armed Forces in preparing their appropriate plans. It is not the intent of this publication to restrict the authority of the JFC from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner the JFC deems most appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall objective.

Urban Operations

Urban Operations
Author: Department of the Army
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781497467897

Doctrine provides a military organization with a common philosophy, a language, a purpose, and unity of effort. Rather than establishing a set of hard and fast rules, the objective of doctrine is to foster initiative and creative thinking. To this end, FM 3-06 discusses major Army operations in an urban environment. This environment, consisting of complex terrain, a concentrated population, and an infrastructure of systems, is an operational environment in which Army forces will operate. In the future, it may be the predominant operational environment. Each urban operation is unique and will differ because of the multitude of combinations presented by the threat, the urban area itself, the major operation of which it may be part (or the focus), and the fluidity of societal and geopolitical considerations. Therefore, there will always exist an innate tension between Army doctrine, the actual context of the urban operation, and future realities. Commanders must strike the proper balance between maintaining the capability to respond to current threats and preparing for future challenges.

TASER® Conducted Electrical Weapons: Physiology, Pathology, and Law

TASER® Conducted Electrical Weapons: Physiology, Pathology, and Law
Author: Mark W. Kroll
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2009-02-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0387854754

TASER® Conducted Electrical Weapons are rapidly replacing the club for law-enforcement control of violent subjects within many countries around the globe. A TASER CEW is a hand-held device that delivers a 400-volt pulse with a duration tuned to control the skeletal muscles without affecting the heart at a distance of up to 6.5 meters over tiny wires. If necessary, it begins with an arcing voltage of 50,000 V to penetrate thick clothing; the 50,000 V is never delivered to the body itself. Due to the widespread usage of these devices and the widespread misconceptions surrounding their operation, this book will have significant utility. This volume is written for cardiologists, emergency physicians, pathologists, law enforcement management, corrections personnel, and attorneys.

Army Medical Logistics

Army Medical Logistics
Author: Department of the Army
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2012-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781480188099

The AHS (Army Health System) is a component of the Military Health System (MHS) that is responsible for operational management of the health service support (HSS) and force health protection (FHP) missions for training, predeployment, deployment, and postdeployment operations. The Army's MEDLOG system (including blood management) is an integral part of the AHS in that it provides intensive management of medical products and services that are used almost exclusively by the AHS and are critical to its success. Also key to this success is the delivery of a MEDLOG capability that anticipates the needs of the customer and is tailored to continuously provide end-to-end sustainment of the AHS mission throughout full spectrum operations. Providing timely and effective AHS support is a team effort which integrates the clinical and operational aspects of the mission. The provision of MEDLOG support requires collaboration between the medical logisticians, clinicians, and other health care providers within the operational environment and encompasses the following functions: Medical materiel procurement and distribution (acquisition, receiving, shipping, storage, and stock record/property accounting); Medical equipment maintenance and repair; Optical fabrication and repair; Management of patient movement items; Production of medical gases; Blood storage and distribution; Medical hazardous waste management; Management of medical facilities and infrastructure; Medical contracting support; Total product life-cycle management of medical materiel and equipment. This manual describes the capabilities of the MEDLOG system and its role in sustaining the AHS mission. Medical logistics support for deployed forces is the primary focus of this manual. However, generating force or national strategic-level MEDLOG support is also addressed to present a clear picture of the processes involved and resources expended to guarantee a Class VIII support infrastructure. This Class VIII infrastructure ensures the seamless delivery of health care from the point of injury through successive roles of care to the continental US (CONUS) support base. This publication opens with an overview of Army MEDLOG, followed by a description of each MEDLOG unit, the capabilities available, and role of care where each element may be employed. This manual also covers the information systems and enablers available to facilitate the flow of supplies and equipment throughout the area of operations (AO), as well as the current force (Medical Force 2000, Medical Reengineering Initiative, modular division, and brigade combat team [BCT] force designs) and emerging concepts scheduled to occur as part of current and future force fielding events.

Combined Arms Gap-Crossing Operations

Combined Arms Gap-Crossing Operations
Author: United Army
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008-07-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781494240356

the combined arms team that enhances mobility of the force by projecting elements across an obstacle, wet ordry, in support of assured mobility. It is also applicable to joint, interagency, or multinational forces and isspecifically written as a dual manual between the United States (U.S.) Army and the U.S. Marine Corps(USMC). Although other branches contribute to gap-crossing operations and are included in the discussions,this manual focuses on the engineer contribution to gap-crossing operations, while acknowledging thesignificant role of other branches and capabilities. This manual follows the principles and tenets found in FieldManual (FM) 3-90, FM 3-34, and FM 3-34.2 that continues the discussion of mobility and gap-crossingoperations. It recognizes the contribution of the entire combined arms team to gap-crossing operations and themulti-Service capabilities that exist to support gap-crossing operations at both the tactical and operationallevels. Finally, it addresses the specifics associated with gap crossing in support of combat maneuver and lineof communications (LOC) gap crossing, integrating the considerations created by the significant changes todoctrine and force structure that have occurred since FM 90-13 was published in 1998.This FM is the tactical commander's and engineer staff planner's manual and primary resource forunderstanding gap-crossing operations. This manual follows the mobility concepts and fundamentals outlinedin FM 3-34.2 and is intended for use by commanders and their staff at both the operational and tactical levels. Itrelates the engineer-focused aspects of gap crossing to the functional area of combined arms mobilityoperations, incorporating new concepts associated with the expansion of the existing Army task (ART)Conduct Gap-Crossing Operations and the advent of the modular force structure.

The U.S. Army Operating Concept

The U.S. Army Operating Concept
Author: U.s. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781502763693

This book describes how future Army forces, as part of joint, interorganizational, and multinational efforts, operate to accomplish campaign objectives and protect U.S. national interests. It describes the Army's contribution to globally integrated operations, and addresses the need for Army forces to provide foundational capabilities for the Joint Force and to project power onto land and from land across the air, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains. The Army Operating Concept guides future force development through the identification of first order capabilities that the Army must possess to accomplish missions in support of policy goals and objectives.