Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare

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Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare
Military Support of Natural Disasters
POC LGLO
Deliver excellence in logistics support
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Overview

• Why use the military
• Stafford Act
• Capabilities
• Restrictions
• Case Study Hurricane Sandy
• DOMOPS
• Questions

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Why Use The Military

• Rapid Response
• Supply large scale response capability
• Housing
• Transportation
• Heavy equipment
• Distribution
• Communications
• Manpower
• Self sustaining
• Built in command structure

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Stafford Act

• Authorizes the President to make federal aid
  available to states stricken by natural or
  man-made disaster
• Provides statutory authority for employing U.S.
  Armed Forces
• Upon request of the governor, military aid
  available for no more than 10 days prior to
  Presidential declaration of federal emergency
• Governor of affected state must declare that the
  situation is beyond the states effective response
  capability

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Stafford Act

• Governors determination must include a detailed
  definition of type and amount of aid required
• Governor must implement the states emergency
  response plan and provide information regarding
  resources committed

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Stafford Act

• Immediate Response Authority
• Allows commanders to provide resources and
  assistance prior to declaration under the
  Stafford Act when a disaster overwhelms the
  capabilities of local authorities
• Examples
• Rescue
• Evacuation
• Medical treatment

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Roles What Can We Do

• Medical Care and Shelter
• Logistical Support
• Air Traffic Control
• Distribution
• Protection
• Search and Rescue
• Debris removal and road clearance
• Advisory capacities (C2)
• Patrolling civilian areas for health and welfare

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Roles What Cant We do

• Law Enforcement Posse Comitatus Act (1878).
  Prohibits/limits military law enforcement
  authority outside of martial law
• Not applicable to Coast Guard
• Patrolling affected areas for security
• Perform any function of civil government unless
  absolutely necessary
• Must turn over to civilian authority at earliest
  opportunity

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EMAC

• Emergency Management Assistance Compact
• Interstate mutual aid agreement
• Facilitates state to state support
• Personnel
• Equipment
• Accountability of all commodities is extremely
  important

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Hurricane Sandy
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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Monday, October 22
• NOAA National Weather Service issued public
  advisories throughout the day to inform that
  Tropical Depression 18 had officially become
  Tropical Storm Sandy with maximum sustained winds
  of near 40 miles per hour.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Tuesday, October 23
• The NOAA National Weather Service issued
  advisories indicating that a Tropical Storm watch
  would be potentially required for portions of
  South Florida and the Florida Keys beginning that
  evening.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Wednesday, October 24
• FEMA begins to monitor Hurricane Sandy, the
  eighteenth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic
  Hurricane Season.
• At 500 AM EST, the NOAA National Weather Service
  issued Tropical Storm watches  for the east coast
  of Florida from Jupiter Inlet south and west to
  Flamingo, including Florida Bay and for the
  Florida Upper Keys from Ocean Reef southward to
  Craig Key.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Thursday, October 25
• FEMA regional offices in Atlanta, Philadelphia,
  New York City and Boston, closely monitored
  Hurricane Sandy located in the eastern Caribbean
  Sea with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per
  hour, and remained in close coordination with
  state emergency management partners in Florida
  and the potentially affected southeast,
  Mid-Atlantic and New England states.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Friday, October 26
• FEMA deploys Incident Management Assistance Teams
  and liaison officers to Connecticut, Delaware,
  New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New
  Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Vermont to assist
  states with coordination.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Friday, October 26
• President Obama is briefed on updates to
  Hurricane Sandy and federal actions to prepare
  for the storm as it continued to move toward the
  United States mainland.
• The President directed FEMA to ensure that all
  available federal resources were being brought to
  bear to support state and local responders in
  potentially affected areas along the eastern
  seaboard as they prepared for the severe weather.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Friday, October 26
• U.S. Northern Command deployed Regional Defense
  Coordinating Officers (DCO), and portions of the
  Defense Coordinating Element (DCE), in advance of
  the storm, to validate, plan and coordinate
  Department of Defense (DOD) support of FEMA's
  response operations and to facilitate DOD support
  of life-saving and response operations.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Friday, October 26
• U.S. National Guard positioned more than 61,000
  National Guard personnel along the eastern
  seaboard.  The National Guards in Connecticut,
  Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
  New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District
  of Columbia coordinated with authorities in
  preparation for Hurricane Sandy's landfall.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Saturday, October 27
• Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
  and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate reached out
  to the governors of Connecticut, Delaware,
  Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
  Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
  Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
  and the mayors of New York and Washington, D.C.,
  to make sure the governors' and mayors' teams had
  the support they need in preparation for
  Hurricane Sandy.
• National Guards in Connecticut, Delaware,
  Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,
  Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of
  Columbia continued to coordinate with state
  authorities.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Sunday, October 28
• President Obama signed emergency declarations 
  for Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maryland,
   Massachusetts, New Jersey  and New York due to
  Hurricane Sandy, making available federal support
  to save lives and to protect property and public
  health and safety.  These declarations allow FEMA
  to provide resources directly to state, tribal
  and local government engaged in life-saving and
  sustaining activities.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) mobilized
  Planning and Response Teams (PRTs) and other
  resources to support temporary power generator
  requirements. Multiple assets were put on alert
  including teams for debris management, temporary
  roofing, commodities Distribution, and temporary
  housing.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• October 29, 2012
• FEMA positioned more than 1,500 FEMA personnel
  along the East Coast to support disaster
  preparedness and response operations, including
  search and rescue, situational awareness,
  communications and logistical support.  In
  addition, 28 teams comprised of 294 FEMA Corps
  members were pre-staged to support Sandy.

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E-mail to 104 FW Members

• Hurricane Sandy is off the East Coast of Florida
  tracking North. The currently modeling has it
  tracking toward the coast of New Jersey with us
  on the northeast side of the storm. The storm is
  expected to make landfall on Tuesday. Some
  notes
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• - Use this weekend wisely to prepare you and your
  family
• - We are looking for volunteers to fill the
  following missions beginning on Monday
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• Initial request for SAD authorization - 104FW,
  all starting orders on Monday, 29 Oct 12
• - 26 pax for security mission (2 x 13-man teams)
• - 40 pax for chainsaw teams (10 x 4-man teams)
• - 8 pax for JISCC support
• - 8 pax for Damage Assessment Teams (DATs)
• - 4 pax for LNO support to the Region 3/4 MEMA
  location - Agawam
• - 8 pax for Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
• - The initial request for volunteers is for 3
  days, with the potential to be longer. If we do
  not have volunteers we will have to direct
  personnel to SAD. If you are interested in
  volunteering, please contact your commander.
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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• More than 7,400 National Guard forces placed on
  duty to support the governors of New York,
  Massachusetts, Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware,
  Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Rhode
  Island, New Hampshire and Maryland.  These forces
  provide assistance to local first responders and
  FEMA with critical tasks such and assistance at
  evacuation  shelters, route clearance, search and
  rescue and delivery of essential equipment and
  supplies.

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• Hurricane Sandy makes landfall

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Hurricane Sandy
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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• October 30
• Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signs EMAC
  authorizing logistics assistance requested by New
  York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
• MA NG companies depart for Floyd Bennett Field,
  Brooklyn, NY
• Capabilities Fuel dispensing, personnel/cargo
  vehicles, welfare patrol

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• October 31
• MA ANG assets depart for Floyd Bennett Field
• Capabilities Fuel dispensing
• Floyd Bennett Field Logistic Center becomes fully
  operational

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Hurricane Sandy Timeline

• November 1
• Air Reserve from March ARB, California begin
  airlifting supplies and equipment to Stewart
  ANGB, Newburgh, NY

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Floyd Bennett Field

• Joint Operations Center in Brooklyn NY
• Housed military, FEMA, Red Cross, police,
  emergency responders
• Distribution Center for water, food, fuel

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DOMOPS Keys

• Accountability Someone has to pay the bill
• Personnel Status Title 32 vs. Title 10
• C2 Civilian authority vs. military C2
• Pitfalls Long term military assistance may drive
  an atmosphere of entitlement
• Prevent against abuse

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• Questions?