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simulated injury Aug. 25 at Fort Hood during Exercise Sudden Response 16.
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Soldiers with Joint Task Force Civil Support begin
decontamination procedures after checking a simu-
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urban search and rescue training at Fort Hood. The
training was part of Exercise Sudden Response, a
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during Exercise Sudden Response 16. The weeklong exercise was a key training event for the 172nd HR Co. and various other units within
Joint Task Force Civil Support.
and provide temporary critical support to
enable community recovery.
“It’s important to us because it’s a
homeland mission. We’re protecting
U.S. citizens,” said Capt. Melissa Moore-
house, commander of the 172nd Hazard
Response Co. “We want to save lives and
mitigate human suffering, and conducting
a large-scale exercise like this really helps
us to be prepared so that when we have
masses, we’re not overwhelmed and we
can provide the care and assistance that’s
needed.”
With help from more than 200 civilian
role players who acted as injured survivors
Soldiers with Joint Task Force Civil
Support honed their disaster response
skills during realistic decontamination
training Aug. 25, as part of Exercise Sud-
den Response 16 at Fort Hood.
During the weeklong exercise, several
units under JTF-CS, including the 172nd
Hazard Response Company from Fort
Riley, Kansas, established and operated
mass casualty decontamination lines in
response to simulated nuclear fallout.
This was the latest integration train-
ing for these units which together make
up the military’s 5,000-strong Defense
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and
Nuclear Response Force.
The DCRF is a scalable response force
ready to deploy within 24 hours to sup-
port local, state, tribal and federal agencies
in the event of a large-scale chemical, bio-
logical, radiological and nuclear incident.
It’s comprised of units from across the
country, as well as several units resident to
Fort Hood such as 1st Medical Brigade,
1st Air Cavalry Brigade and 36th Engineer
Brigade.
Unlike other military units that pre-
pare for operations overseas, the DCRF is
focused solely on the homeland. Its mis-
sion is to save lives, prevent further injury
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collapses and how they
can effectively get vic-
tims out of a garage and
increase the structural
stability of the area
since a (terror attack)
can do major structural
damage to the place.”
The Soldiers had to
approach the site cau-
tiously while wearing a
full protective suit.
“Wearing the suit
becomes uncomfort-
able at times, but that’s
part of our job,” said
Sgt. Scott Mankewitz,
181st Hazard Response
Company, 2nd Chemi-
cal Battalion, from Fort
Hood. “We have to
wear it (for our safe-
ty), and once you get
used to it and you have
been doing this mission
for a while it’s just the
norm.”
Once the tunnel
site had been secured,
simulated victims were
rescued and decontami-
nated for further medi-
cal treatment.
“It’s a good feeling to
know we are training
to help Americans and
that there is a purpose
behind it,” Manke-
witz said. “I hope we
become more profi-
cient in our mission, if
we are called to do this
we’ll be ready to go.”
Additional search
and rescue training
took place elsewhere
on Fort Hood during
the week, along with
decontamination train-
ing, medical and logis-
tic support, and various
other tasks essential to
disaster response.
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Urban search and
rescue platoons from
Joint Task Force Civil
Support converged on
the training grounds
of Fort Hood, Aug.
24-Sunday to practice
their life-saving mission
in a variety of disaster
response situations.
The training, part of
the joint task force’s
Exercise Sudden
Response 16, focused
on saving lives in the
aftermath of a nuclear
blast scenario.
“This training exer-
cise (revolves around
a simulated) domes-
tic terror attack hit-
ting Houston,” said
1st Lt. Patrick Smith,
platoon leader for an
urban search and rescue
platoon, under 554th
Engineer Company,
from Fort Stewart,
Georgia. “We are con-
ducting urban search
and rescue operations
at this tunnel site.”
The tunnel site rep-
resented a contami-
nated collapsed parking
structure, so concrete
debris and destroyed
vehicles were set up
around the site, adding
to the realism
challenges
search and
toons.
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trapped in
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explained. “We are pre-
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of the nuclear disaster, the Soldiers in the
exercise were responsible for decontami-
nating and medically treating the various
injuries.
“(The role players) are a great enhance-
ment to training because it allows us to
relate to real world scenarios,” Moore-
house said. “These are our brothers, our
sisters, our mothers, they’re suffering and
you want to help them as much as you
can, but you have to maintain order and
discipline to get them through properly.
So, having these role players really helps to
put it into perspective for us.”
The mass-casualty decontamination
began with Soldiers receiving the role
players and sorting them by the severity
of their simulated injuries: those requir-
ing urgent care, those who are ambulatory
(walking) and those who are non-ambu-
latory. Next, the role players were decon-
taminated, received medical treatment and
then evacuated to another medical facility
for further medical assistance.
In total, Exercise Sudden Response 16
involved more than 2,000 military person-
nel from JTF Civil Support, the nation’s
only standing CBRN joint task force.
Other aspects of the exercise included
urban search and rescue, as well as logis-
tics, aviation, communications and medi-
cal support.
“This is a great opportunity,” Moore-
house said, “for different units to come
together and integrate their forces and dif-
ferent capabilities for an event that helps
the U.S. population.”
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