Fifty Cadets, recruits and cadre of the U.S Army Cadet Corps (USAC) are currently involved in disaster recovery operations in the ravaged community of Menifee County, Kentucky. They are there at the request of the Menifee County sheriff. The troops are involved in a three-day operation ranging from searching for lost mementoes to recovering lost pets.
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It's 0130 and the USAC Tactical Operations Center is humming under the watchful command of CPT Clay Hammer. He is assisted by seven officers and NCOs with the Cadet NCOs under the leadership of C/SSG Royce of Bourbon County.
The corps' mission includes "service to others." These dedicated USAC personnel are exemplifying that mission as they work in support of neighbors in needs.
Well done, Colonel Land. I look forward to hearing more about the USAC's involvement in disaster recovery.
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Good bunch you've got there, Colonel.
The facebook link says content unavailable. It may be because I don't have a facebook though.
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Quote from: COL Land on March 17, 2012, 05:27:34 AM
Fifty Cadets, recruits and cadre of the U.S Army Cadet Corps (USAC) are currently involved in disaster recovery operations in the ravaged community of Menifee County, Kentucky. They are there at the request of the Menifee County sheriff. The troops are involved in a three-day operation ranging from searching for lost mementoes to recovering lost pets.
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It's 0130 and the USAC Tactical Operations Center is humming under the watchful command of CPT Clay Hammer. He is assisted by seven officers and NCOs with the Cadet NCOs under the leadership of C/SSG Royce of Bourbon County.
The corps' mission includes "service to others." These dedicated USAC personnel are exemplifying that mission as they work in support of neighbors in needs.
Very sad to see news reports on the total number of people killed in KY by this severe weather outbreak :(
Civil Air Patrol needs to watch out they might be overtaken by this organization on providing ground disaster relief efforts :o ;)
Hopefully everyone deployed is up to date on this immunizations, especially their tetanus vaccine since it's pretty easy to step on a nail or cut one self while searching through debris. Likely in CAP ORM we would look specifically at this.
Be interesting to find out how the deployed troops are communicating back to the USAC Tactical Operations Center -- (likely cell phones) & also what tactical communications is being utilized in the field (FRS radios?) ???
RM
Our troops will return to Forest Hill Station in Millersburg, Kentucky in about 90 minutes from an amazing three-day evolution. The stories are remarkable and the response to our troops from the public and various agencies has been fantastic. More will be posted as we get it put into writing and sift through the hundreds of pictures from the on-scene commander.
Answering your questions:
a. All shots are required to be up-to-date, and are monitored, as part of continuous enrollment. With that said, the Cadets were under fairly tight constraints to where they could operate. This is a very dramatic scene and we've implemented CISM protocols, with on-site personnel, as appropriate.
b. Our communications are through an inventory of Motorola CP-200s (http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Two-Way+Radios+and+Pagers+-+Business/Portable+Radios/On-site+Communications/CP200_US-EN) carried by all members of the cadre, Cadet NCOs and Fire Team Leaders, as well as Motorola Radium CM-300 (http://mymotorolaradio.com/shop.asp?action=details&inventoryID=61260&catId=10993) configured as a base station at both the TOC and the County's EOC to ensure continuity of communications. Cell phone are always a secondary means of communication. FRS has been long gone for well over a decade.
c. The U.S. Army Cadet Corps also has the Forest Hill Station Department of Public Safety, which is a state-sanctioned law enforcement agency with sworn peace officers. As a result, our DPS also has communications with dispatch and other agencies.
Two of our MEMS qualified personnel will have earned the "flash" for behind their MEMS badge for having actually responded to an Emergency Management event. We've been contacted about back-training the Cadets and cadre in MEMS, as this event waives them from the "practical exercise" required to be badged.
More later...the troops are returning to station very soon.
Moral was high this evening as the Cadets and officers off-loaded everything from GP Medium tents to cases of toilet paper. Our troops really did a great job over the past three days. They are tired, yet know they where there when called upon. Here are some more photos (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150723790945306.465864.230322230305&type=3).
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The U.S. Army Cadet Corps (USAC) received a call today, through a Mutual Aid Agreement, asking for law enforcement and perimeter support in response to a city fire in Carlisle, Kentucky, approximately eight miles from the National Cadet Training Center in Millersburg, Kentucky.
The Forest Hill Station Department of Public Safety, led by CPT Clay Hammer, and staffed by sworn law enforcement officers who are also members of USAC, has responded to support our neighbors in Nicholas County.
Additionally, a small number of USAC Cadet NCOs, who have attended the Cadet Military Police Academy and are at Forest Hill Station as Patrolmen, are on-scene to assist with perimeter and crowd control. All Cadets are closely monitored and are not, in any way, in harm's way.
"...and service to others..." is an important part of our Mission Statement. These dedicated USAC professionals, once again, are fulfilling that expectation.