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| July 14, 2010: The U.S. Department of Defense plans to established eight more specialized Homeland Response Force Units across the United States in fiscal year 2010, Defense and National Guard officials announced on Monday, July 12, 2010, according to the American Forces Press Service. The units are regional forces that will cross state lines when needed. They are part of a restructuring of the country's chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive consequence system.
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Utah and California each will host a Homeland Response Force Unit. On June 3, 2010, officials announced that Ohio and Washington would receive units that will be operational in fiscal year 2011. One unit will be based in each of the 10 Federal Emergency Management Agency regions. The units are scheduled to have 570 Guardsmen, and each will have a medical team, a search and extraction team, a decontamination team and "command and control capabilities," officials said. The units are arranged in a way that soldiers would be able to drive to the site of an event within 12 hours. The new system also will include a defense CBRNE Response Force, two consequence-management command and control elements, 57 weapons of mass destruction civil support teams, and 17 CBRNE-enhanced response force packages, the Defense Department said.
When not deployed for operations, the unit's soldiers will focus on planning, training, and exercising at the regional level, officials said. |
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