Emergency Management Operations Officer ♦ Disaster Response ♦ Administration ♦ Hospital
177Th Mp Bn (Brigade Liaisons Battalion) & 53Rd Civil Support Team (Wmd). (Army National Guard)
In this role I oversaw a 13-Soldier unit tasked as a detainee operations cell, overseeing the care and custody of prisoners while under Coalition Forces’ and Iraqi Army authorities. We were responsible for more than 37,000 detainees. While in Baghdad I received the John Teal Leadership Award for performance exemplifying competence and integrity and demonstration of technical competence in the operations field. In the leadership role for the Civil Support Team, we were charged with responding to known or suspect incidents involving weapons of mass destruction and assist the civil authorities on scene (police, fire, EMS, or public utilities) by providing subject matter expertise in the full spectrum of any Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosives response. My team coordinated 37 disaster response or crisis management activities, provided disaster preparedness training, and prepared emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies, hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations. I advised on treatment of WMD casualties, integrating Department of Defense medical support and conducting medical Intelligence and laboratory based presumptive identification of WMD samples.For detailed list of accomplishments, please request my resume.