US Army Pacific Command

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US Army Pacific Command
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Overview

• USARPAC Overview
• Current Mission
• Mission Changes
• 2006 Typhoon SeasonOur Feedback
• Hawaiian Island TC COR

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USARPAC SWO Mission

• USARPAC Staff Weather Office provides the USARPAC
  and Joint Task Force-Homeland Defense (JTF-HD)
  Commanding Generals with critical meteorological,
  oceanographic and environmental intelligence in
  support of security operations, from theater
  security cooperation to warfighting, to promote
  regional stability, and ensure successful crisis
  response or decisive victory.

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USARPAC Forces Assigned
OPCON
JTF-HD
USARPAC
94th Army Air Missile Defense Cmd
9th Regional Readiness Command
US Army Hawaii/ 25th ID
US Army Japan/ 9th TSC
US Army Alaska
196th Brigade
I Corps
500th Military Intelligence BDE
172nd SBCT
4/25 IN BCT (ABN)
29th BCT (HIARNG)
516th Signal BDE
2/25 SBCT
3/25 IN BCT
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USARPAC Mission Change

• USARPAC converts from Title X HQ to war
  fighting Army Service Component Command
• Establish Early Entry Command Post and 2 Ops
  Command Posts24/7 ops function
• Army HQs in Korea moves off Korean peninsula
• I Corps flag moves forward into WestPac
• No change to JTF-HD mission
• SWO office will expand role to Battlefield
  Overwatch Team (BWOT) to match Army METOC
  requirements

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USARPAC Transformation
Today
2007-
Questions?
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JTF-HD Mission
Joint Task Force Homeland Defense (JTF-HD)
executes Land Domain operations to defeat
terrorist threats to the Homeland, and, when
requested/validated, conducts Defense Support of
Civil Authorities (DSCA) operations for all
hazards including responding to and recovering
from natural or man-made disasters.
Homeland is defined as the States of the U.S.
U.S. Territories, Possessions, and Commonwealths
and the Compact nations
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JTF-HD Joint Operating Area
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Environmental Support to JTF-HD

• Collect, analyze, forecast, tailor and monitor
  environmental conditions across JTF-HD AOR
• Natural Disaster
• Terrorist Actions
• Environmental analysis, studies, and
  investigations
• Support JTF-HD exercise and MTT program
• 24/7 JOC watch-capable (with augmentation)

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Feedback--Operations

• The 2006 Philippines typhoon love train (ST
  Cimaron, T Chebi, T Durian, and T Utor 26 Oct-14
  Dec 2006)
• USARPAC began humanitarian response planning
  based on JTWC forecast about 72 hours prior to
  landfall (did not execute)
• Ops unit scheduled for rotation was moved out
  early based on track forecast
• Overalltrack and intensity forecasts were very
  good
• Five day forecast aids
• Spaghetti charts are extremely helpful in
  understanding the confidence associate with the
  forecast track

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Feedback--Suggestion

• Develop and implement an automated notification
  process
• Changes via e-mail alert (subscription service)
• Especially useful for non-24/7 staff functions
• Share longer-range forecast guidance with
  select METOC organizations
• Evac airlift planning 7-10 days for remote
  locations with a large US presence (such as
  USAKA--Kwajalein Island)

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Issue--TC COR For Hawaiian Islands

• Per PACOMINST 3140-1X (Draft 25 Jul 06), TC COR
  for military installations on Hawaiian Island is
  set by Commander, JTF-HD
• Local commanders establish TC COR for their
  installations
• First exercised during Makani Pahili 2006
• USARPAC SWO facilitated HI DoD conference call to
  coordinate island-wide TC COR
• Next Makani Pahili exercise 14-25 May 2007
• Critical the DoD METOC community must work
  together closely

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HQ US Army Pacific Staff Weather Office
(USARPAC SWO)
Mr. Mike Davenport, USAF USARPAC SWO 17th
Operational Weather Squadron hhcuswo1_at_shafter.army
.mil Comm [phone] DSN [phone]