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NEW LONDON, N.C. – The Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration (JRSOI) Center at the 145th Regional Training Site in New London, North Carolina, has been the backbone to the logistics of Vigilant Guard since it set up on Friday.
Objectives of the JRSOI are to fully integrate the NC Forest Service, NC Emergency Management, and North Carolina National Guard operations under a unified command, provide information sharing and feedback and training.
“With this particular exercise, what we’ve been doing with this JRSOI mission as far as interoperability is we’ve been working with the Forestry Service and North Carolina Emergency Management, and that allows us to meet personnel from the actual community that we’d be working with and that allows us to learn how they do their response and how we can fit into it as the National Guard,” said Air Force Master Sgt. Rebecca Tongen, the 145th Airlift Wing installation emergency manager.
“The JRSOI mission supporting the Vigilant Guard exercise for 2015, the main goal behind it is to be able to receive forces from outside the state of North Carolina and that can include military resources, active duty military, National Guard military, and emergency management assistance from outside the state,” said Tongen.
During Vigilant Guard, there needs to be a central hub from which all logistical information comes to and leaves from. The JRSOI provides this on-site and combines forces from several civilian agencies with the Army and Air National Guard. This combination gives both sides the opportunity to share information and learn from each other.
“NC Emergency Management uses a federally mandated instant command system. From the military perspective, we don’t always get to see that. The layout and structure from behind the response is very organized,” said Tongen.
Scot Brooks is the incident commander for NC Emergency Management’s role in the exercise. Brooks describes the other aspect of the JRSOI’s mission, which is to create joint task forces from resources gathered from a single, or multiple, agencies.
“Our objective is to take resources, all different types whether that’s personnel, equipment, supplies, vehicles, etc. We bring all those in, we receive them, check them, and inspect them to make sure we are getting exactly what we requested. In some cases we take resources from one area and put them in another area to create a task force,” said Brooks.
Vigilant Guard is an exercise spread beyond just North Carolina, and with such a large scale operation comes large-scale logistics requirements.
“Lots of times in a large scale operation such as this we have to pull from different agencies and create the actual resource that they need,” said Brooks, “An example would be debris clearing. We can send forestry out, which has chainsaws and experience, and we might send National Guard resources with them that has heavy equipment and manpower to help with that process.”
Safety and timeliness are also goals for the JRSOI. Within receipt of a mission, resources and assets are send out to their destination within 30 minutes of mission assignment. Since Vigilant Guard is essential a practice run, this is the time when joint forces are given the opportunity to ensure that their processes run smoothly.
“It allows us the chance to practice the actual process itself, to work out any bugs like delays in the system,” said Brooks. “When those resources arrive, we brief them, we give them new assignments, and we send them out into the field where they are needed.
| Date Taken: | 03.07.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.08.2015 19:46 |
| Story ID: | 156386 |
| Location: | NEW LONDON, NC, US |
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