U.S. Northern Command Gains Dedicated Response Force

For the aboriginal time in its existence, U.S. Northern Command is accepting a committed force to acknowledge to abeyant chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield atomic (CBRNE) incidents in the homeland.

Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 1, 2008 -- For the aboriginal time in its existence, U.S. Northern Command (http://www.northcom.mil/) is accepting a committed force to acknowledge to abeyant chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield atomic (CBRNE) incidents in the homeland.

We are now architecture the aboriginal of three CBRNE Consequence Management Forces On the aboriginal of October, we’ll accept an organized force, a accomplished force, an able force, a force that has able command and ascendancy and is on quick acknowledgment – 48 hours – to arch off to a all-embracing nuclear, chemical, biological accident that ability crave Department of Defense support. U.S. Army North has done an outstanding job anticipating the needs of our federal, accompaniment and bounded partners, and training the CCMRF to be able to acknowledge if alleged upon We’re aflame about accepting a accessible and able aggregation that we can bound activate and arrange as allotment of a federal acknowledgment amalgamation if responding in the after-effects of adverse events This acknowledgment force will not be alleged aloft to advice with law enforcement, noncombatant agitation or army control, but will be acclimated to abutment advance agencies complex in extenuative lives, abating adversity and affair the needs of communities afflicted by weapons of accumulation abolition attacks, accidents or even accustomed disasters. "We are now architecture the aboriginal of three CBRNE Consequence Management Forces," said USNORTHCOM Commander Gen. Gene Renuart. "On the aboriginal of October, we’ll accept an organized force, a accomplished force, an able force, a force that has able command and ascendancy and is on quick acknowledgment – 48 hours – to arch off to a all-embracing nuclear, chemical, biological accident that ability crave Department of Defense support."

The CBRNE Consequence Management Force, or CCMRF, is a aggregation of about 4,700 collective cadre that would arrange as the Department of Defense’s antecedent acknowledgment force for a CBRNE incident. Its capabilities cover seek and rescue, decontamination, medical, aviation, communications and logistical support.

Each CCMRF will be composed of three anatomic assignment armament – Task Force Operations, Task Force Medical and Task Force Aviation – that accept their own alone operational focus and set of mission skills. Depending on the altered mission requirements and the adventure commander’s priorities, Task Force Operations, Task Force Medical and Task Force Aviation units would accept capricious roles and responsibilities based aloft the blazon of accident and the admeasurement of the bounded area. In USNORTHCOM’s aboriginal CCMRF, the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, assigned at Fort Stewart, Ga., will anatomy the amount assemblage of Task Force Operations.

Although CCMRFs are a collective force comprised of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines, the aboriginal CCMRF will abatement beneath the operational ascendancy of USNORTHCOM’s Joint Force Land Component Command, U.S. Army North, amid in San Antonio, Texas. Joint Task Force Civil Support, USNORTHCOM’s accessory command in Fort Monroe, Va., would serve as the operational address and plan carefully with accompaniment and bounded admiral and aboriginal responders.

“U.S. Army North has done an outstanding job anticipating the needs of our federal, accompaniment and bounded partners, and training the CCMRF to be able to acknowledge if alleged upon,” said Army Col. Michael Boatner, USNORTHCOM approaching operations analysis chief.

“We’re aflame about accepting a accessible and able aggregation that we can bound activate and arrange as allotment of a federal acknowledgment amalgamation if responding in the after-effects of adverse events,” Boatner said. “This acknowledgment force will not be alleged aloft to advice with law enforcement, noncombatant agitation or army control, but will be acclimated to abutment advance agencies complex in extenuative lives, abating adversity and affair the needs of communities afflicted by weapons of accumulation abolition attacks, accidents or even accustomed disasters.”

USNORTHCOM (http://www.northcom.mil/) is the collective adversary command formed in the deathwatch of the Sept.11, 2001, agitator attacks to accommodate citizenry aegis and aegis abutment of noncombatant authorities.

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