NR 586NP Week 6 Assignment; Week 6 FEMA Training.

FEMA Training Reflection 2 The threat of disaster level events is a constant concern for the United States (U.S.) government and the citizens of this country. To mitigate some of the anxiety surrounding these threats; considerable time, effort and funding has been spent to make sure that when disaster response services are needed they can be provided in a way that is both timely and effective. The nature, size, and frequency of these incidents may vary; but a standard, unified approach to crisis management can still help streamline disaster response. In FEMA’s training course, ICS 100: Introduction to the Incident Command System, it is explained that the current approach that the U.S. uses is called the National Incident Management System (NIMS), a system which uses the Incident Command System (ICS) in conjunction with a system for Resource Management and for Communications and Information Management to respond to all domestic incidents including both terrorism and natural disasters. There are many parts of NIMS and ICS that appeal to me because of my time both as an active duty Marine and then later as a civilian Marine. Some of the core characteristics such as chain of command, common terminology and modular organization are strategies that I have seen work in exercises with just my own people, when working with other organizations within the Marine Corps and even working with other armed services and foreign military personnel. These principles do actually work in practice and allow for benefits such as streamlined communication, less confusion over orders and expectations and operation scaling. Further focusing on ICS and the command and coordination part of NIMS, the way that the roles are delegated between the Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), Multi-agency Coordination (MAC) Groups, and the Joint Information System (JIS) (FEMA: Emergency Management Institute, 2018, pg.62) are also very reminiscent of a military organization. FEMA Training Reflection 4 SID is: 0004411117 References