Posted on 04/13/2010 2:29:36 PM PDT by Welshman007
Edited on 04/13/2010 3:59:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.
The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, has been training at Fort Stewart, Georgia and is composed of 80,000 troops.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
There aren’t 80,000 troops in your typical army corps. Some field armies aren’t that big. I think they mistakenly added an extra ‘0’ in there.
Just great. BO can count on ACORN (or whatever they call themselves these days) to create "civil unrest" and his muzzie friends will take care of the rest.
God help us all.
bad news
80,000 is like two full divisions plus some....
LOL
5th Squadron of the 7th Cavalry... which begs the question... how many squadrons does the 7th have? I know that regiments are largely 'paper' units, but this is a little ridiculous.
I guess, but I don’t have a wholesaler who does gunshows anywhere in that region.
Take a deep breath SandyLynn, while it is true Active military has fired upon citizens in the past, killing them, that was a very long time ago (1933 IIRC).
Today we have a Army of young combat vets who are citizen of the first stripe.
Fear instead for the pols and thier supporters who would rob you of your freedon a piece at a time....
Consequences of WHAT?
Yep and those 100 million don’t just have one weapon. Many have dozens, so plenty to pass around to the other 200 million. I really think we are headed toward a war against our own countrymen.
I agree....... it’s a big fat lie but it makes the libs feel better to think that.
Private message.
Right. Read your Sun Tsu, grasshoppers. It's 101 where those officers trained.
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SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRORISM AND
UNCONVENTIONAL THREATS AND CAPABILITIES
STATEMENT OF GENERAL VICTOR E. RENUART, JR., USAF
COMMANDER UNITED STATES NORTHERN COMMAND
BEFORE THE
HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRORISM AND UNCONVENTIONAL THREATS AND CAPABILITIES
28 JULY 2009
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRORISM AND
UNCONVENTIONAL THREATS AND CAPABILITIES
Chairman Smith, Congressman Miller and Members of the Subcommittee:
Thank you for this opportunity to discuss the role of United States
Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) in homeland defense and civil support
operations.
USNORTHCOM anticipates and conducts homeland defense and civil support
operations to defend, protect, and secure the Unites States and its
interests. We collaborate closely with our interagency and international
mission partners to sustain continuous situational awareness and readiness to
anticipate, deter, prevent, and defeat a range of symmetric and asymmetric
threats in that are directed at our homeland. When directed by the President
or the Secretary of Defense, USNORTHCOM will support Federal primary agencies
in responding quickly to natural disasters, catastrophic incidents, and the
effects of terrorist attacks.
USNORTHCOM primarily provides defense support to civil authorities
through our subordinate and Service component commands in accordance with the
National Response Framework and applicable laws, including the Stafford Act
and the Economy Act. We always coordinate with other Federal agencies and
have strong working relationships with State partners, including the National
Guard, whether acting in a State active duty or operational Title 32 status.
In addition to our steady-state exercise, intelligence, and operational
mission support of interagency homeland defense and security efforts, we
maintain a “family of plans.” These plans present a flexible and scalable
approach to support the national response to natural and man-made disasters
of varying characteristics and severity.
USNORTHCOM maintains plans and identifies capabilities to support and
complement a civil response. In the event of a natural or man-made disaster,
military forces are part of a collaborative and sequentially-layered
response. Normally, local first responders are augmented by State resources,
either within their State or via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) with other States, to include the employment of National Guard forces
operating under the authority of a governor. USNORTHCOM remains ready to
augment response efforts as part of the overall Federal support, if resources
at the State and local levels are insufficient and Federal assistance has
been requested by the appropriate State authorities.
While most incidents are resolved at the local or State level without
Federal involvement, a catastrophic event would likely exceed resources
normally available to Local, State, and Tribal authorities, as well as
private-sector partners in the impacted area and result in sustained national
impacts. Disasters of this magnitude have the potential to significantly
interrupt governmental operations and emergency services to such an extent
that national security could be threatened. In these cases, a significant
Federal response, including active duty military forces organized under
USNORTHCOM, may be requested by a governor and directed by the Secretary of
Defense to support local and State response efforts to save lives and protect
property and critical infrastructure.
The employment of a large-scale Chemical, Biological, Radiological,
Nuclear, or High-yield Explosives (CBRNE) device in the homeland has the
potential to incur significant loss of life, cause mass panic, inflict large-
scale physical and economic damage, and present consequence management
challenges greater than those resulting from previous disasters.
Accordingly, USNORTHCOM must anticipate the full spectrum of CBRNE
incidents that could occur domestically. This could include the potential
for release of toxic industrial materials as a result of a natural disaster,
accident, or terrorist attack. The far edge of this spectrum deals with low-
probability catastrophic events that have the potential to temporarily
interrupt or incapacitate designated civil response leadership. When
directed, USNORTHCOM will execute DOD responsibilities outlined in the
National Response Framework. Critical to our response will be the satisfaction of all Secretary of Defense-approved Requests For Assistance.
USNORTHCOM, in conjunction with a Joint Task Force Headquarters and leaders
within the Joint Field Office, will recommend additional missions that are
required to save lives, mitigate human suffering, and facilitate recovery
operations to robustly support civil authorities in the most catastrophic
circumstances. USNORTHCOM consequence management operations conclude when
the immediate effects of the disaster are contained and civil authorities no
longer require assistance.
To effectively provide consequence management for a CBRNE incident in
accordance with the National Response Framework, USNORTHCOM maintains
specific plans for CBRNE Consequence Management that command and control
Title 10 forces, and also account for the operations of National Guard forces
under the command and control of a governor.
A variety of specialized military forces and capabilities are available
to support the designated primary Federal agency in all phases of incident
assessment, operations coordination, logistics, health services support,
hazardous material containment and decontamination, and safety and risk
assessment. These forces provide the requisite flexibility to appropriately
respond to each disaster, emergency, incident, or event, and have a wide
variety of potential response actions based on the incident severity,
duration, location and the capabilities or needs of local, State, tribal, or
Federal authorities. These forces include the following:
*Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS). JTF-CS is a subordinate
command of U.S. Army North, a Service component command of USNORTHCOM.
JTF-CS plans and integrates DOD support to the designated primary Federal
agency for domestic CBRNE consequence management operations. When directed
by the USNORTHCOM Commander, JTF-CS will deploy to the incident site,
establish command and control of designated DOD forces and direct military
consequence management operations in support of civil authorities.
* Weapon of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams (WMD-CSTs). WMD-CSTs
are National Guard forces that reside in each State and report to the
governor. WMD-CSTs consist of approximately 22 personnel who support local
and State authorities at domestic CBRNE incident sites by identifying agents
and substances, assessing current and projected consequences, advising on
response measures, and assisting with requests for additional military
support.
*CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Packages (CERFPs). CERFPs are currently
established in 17 States. They are made up of approximately 200 National
Guard personnel who provide a regional CBRNE response capability. CERFPs
perform mass casualty decontamination, triage and emergency medical
treatment, and location and extraction of victims from the affected area in
support of civil first responders.
*CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force (CCMRF). CCMRF is a task
force (approximately 4,700 people) that operates under the authority of Title
10. CCMRFs are self-sustaining and may be tailored to any CBRNE event. A
CCMRF is composed of Army, Marine, Navy and Air Force units with unique CBRNE
training and equipment and general purpose units trained to operate in
proximity to a hazardous or contaminated environment. CCMRF capabilities
include event assessment, robust command and control, comprehensive
decontamination of personnel and equipment, HAZMAT handling, air and land
transportation, aerial evacuation, mortuary affairs, and general logistical
support to sustain extended operations.
An important element of the CCMRF is the unique capabilities provided
by the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF). CBIRF is a
single U.S. Marine Corps unit consisting of about 400 personnel that assists
local, State, or Federal agencies and designated combatant commanders in the
conduct of CBRNE consequence management operations. The CBIRF maintains
capabilities for agent detection and identification, casualty search, rescue,
and personnel decontamination, and emergency medical care and stabilization
of contaminated personnel. Current planning construct has CBIRF responding
as part of the lead element of the first of three CCMRFs.
The CCMRF augments the consequence management efforts of State and
local first responders, National Guard forces, and Federal agencies by
providing complementary and unique capabilities when the effects of a CBRNE
event exceed State civilian and National Guard capabilities.
The Secretary of Defense established a requirement for three CCMRFs to
be trained and ready to respond to requests from civil authorities. The DOD,
through USNORTHCOM, currently has one CCMRF trained and ready to support the
Federal response to a CBRNE incident. USNORTHCOM will have a second CCMRF on 1 October 2009 and a third CCMRF projected by 1 October 2010.
On 1 October 2008, the Secretary of Defense assigned CCMRF 1 forces to
the Commander, USNORTHCOM. In September 2008, prior to mission assumption,
CCMRF 1 participated in a Command Post Exercise at Fort Stewart, Georgia
during Exercise VIBRANT RESPONSE to verify operational capability. Beginning
1 October 2009, CCMRF 1 and CCMRF 2 forces will be allocated rather than
assigned to USNORTHCOM. Command and control elements from both CCMRFs will
exercise at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, early next month to confirm mission
readiness. All of CCMRF 1 will exercise in a field training environment in
early November in Indiana.
While CCMRF 1 is comprised predominately of active duty forces, the
second and third CCMRFs will be comprised almost entirely of Reserve and
National Guard forces. USNORTHCOM is working closely with the U.S. Joint
Forces Command, the National Guard Bureau, the military Services and the
States on sourcing solutions, training, equipment, readiness, and exercise of
those forces identified to fulfill CCMRF requirements.
Because the mission of the CCMRF is disaster response and not law
enforcement, it complies with the restrictions placed on the use of Federal
military forces by the Posse Comitatus Act. Per Posse Comitatus, Federal
military forces generally cannot provide direct support to law enforcement,
but are not restricted from providing disaster relief to civilian
authorities. The CCMRF’s mission, training, and equipment are intended to
provide unique CBRNE disaster response assistance to our citizens in their
time of greatest need, not for law enforcement.
The ability of our active and reserve component forces to surge to
initiate and sustain CBRNE consequence management operations is affected by
other concurrent, competing steady-state and surge operations. These
operations include: large-scale irregular and conventional military
campaigns, lesser contingency deployments, post-conflict operations, homeland
defense missions, and other civil support operations. In supporting CBRNE
consequence management operations, our forces must be able to mitigate the
impacts of CBRNE effects; maintain survivable critical infrastructure and
continuity of government; and support integrated, cooperative interagency
response efforts. To achieve these goals, tailored CBRNE response forces
must be able to conduct missions day or night, in all weather conditions, on
rural or urban terrain, and in a chemical, biological, and radiologically-
contaminated environment. They need to be able to sustain themselves and not
further burden State and local responders.
USNORTHCOM has made significant strides in preparing the CCMRF for
success, to include developing Joint Mission Essential Tasks, which are
integrated into the Defense Readiness Reporting System, as well as developing
a CCMRF Phased Exercise Plan. Nonetheless, the current state of overall
military CBRNE response force training and equipment resourcing is less than
optimal. As it stands now, additional identified, trained, and equipped
forces from the active and/or reserve component are required to effectively
respond to multiple, near-simultaneous domestic CBRNE events as directed by
the Joint Chiefs of Staff CBRNE Consequence Management Execution Order.
Whether deliberate or inadvertent, CBRNE events are one of the greatest
challenges facing our nation today and require appropriate resourcing. As
the Commander of USNORTHCOM, I am committed to ensuring that CBRNE
consequence management forces are trained and ready to deploy into this
challenging environment. I appear before you as a strong advocate for all
DOD capabilities, to specifically include the Reserve Component as an
integral partner in CBRNE response.
As we act to support civil authorities in responding to natural disasters
or the effects of acts of terrorism, we never lose focus on our primary
mission of homeland defense. We thank the Members of the Subcommittee for
your unwavering support of USNORTHCOM. We are grateful for all that you have
done to ensure our men and women in uniform have the tools and training they
need to keep our nation and the American people safe and free. Thank you for
your time. I look forward to your questions.
The examiner Article is based on this CNN Story from 2008.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/03/army.unit/
Army combat unit to deploy within U.S.
Eh, when and if this thing goes hot, the Chinese and Russians will be more than willing to make sure the battlefield gets "evened" out. Our side will be supplied if only to keep the bloodshed going and as many of us killed as possible.
The half FOR the usurper will gladly fire on civilians. I would say a majority of the half against him will also fire on us simply because they would be too afraid of not following orders. If we're lucky, 6% might disobey orders.
It doesn't take much to incite a peaceful crowd. Have a tank or two roll up to a peaceful Tea Party protest and you can bet those blue haired grandmas (no we're not all grannies) sipping sweet tea will be up hollering and throwing their umbrellas at the soldiers and bashing their lawn chairs on the tanks. Then what do you think the orders and response will be?
You win.
Weirdo.
I do not expect any one with a gun to stand there and let people riot, and throw stuff at them without firing. While my hair is not blue, I am a Granny, and while I might yell, I would never throw anything at someone with a gun, especially our soldiers, whom I have the greatest respect for.
Those activities I mentioned are all out of the leftist playbook, and not for law-abiding citizens which most Americans are.
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