Special Operations 2009
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We will form Veteran'
directed Private-to-Private and
Public-to-Private Homeland Security Partnerships:
Throughout
history, governments have emphasize the need to form cost
effective and mission ready militias and Homeland Security
partnerships to defend and protect our citizens. Throughout
history governments have emphasized the need to form
volunteer financial cooperatives to create economic
opportunities, stabilize the economy during depressions, and
rebuild the economic infrastructure after a community
crisis.
Rich Woldt -
Commander Liberty Grove VFW Post 8337
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Homeland Security:
Wisconsin deployed 3200 national guard troops overseas
leaving behind families who'll need our support and
communities who'll need our response if and when they find
themselves in harms way.
Door County veterans
stand mission ready to deploy:
- Veteran' VIPER (Visual Intelligence
Persons/Environment Recon) Squads
- Veteran' CIRT's (Critical Incident Response Teams)
- Private Sector' Unified Incident Commands trained to
come to the aide of public sector first responders.
- Veteran' mutual aid agreements
mobilizing... fellow veteran organizations such as Rolling Thunder
www.RollingThunderwi3.org and The Patriot
Guard Riders
www.patriotguard.org as well as local
biker, snowmobile, sailing and ice boating clubs
such as the TITAN MCC and the North East Wisconsin
Bikers Association (NEWBA).
- It stands to reason that...
- Veteran organizations such as... the American
Legion (AL), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Marine Corp
League, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and American
Veterans (AMVET) are all well positioned and mission ready
to support and mobilize veterans returning from service.
- The world credit union movement is... positioned
better than any other organization, anywhere in the world,
anytime in history to come to the aid of victims in need,
create jobs where there's unemployment, provide credit in a
depressed economy, or rebuild an economic infrastructure
around a defined "fields of membership (FOM)" or common
bond. FYI... In the late 70's and early 1980's we
organize a credit union using Door County as a common bond.
The Door County Community Credit Union was chartered at the
Lull-Abi Motel in Egg Harbor in the mid 80's to provide
consumer credit loans to anyone living or working in Door
County. The Door County Community Credit Union subsequently
merged into the Pioneer Credit Union which is part of the
Brown County Chapter of Credit Unions which is a Member of
the Wisconsin Credit Union League, which is a member of the
Credit Union National Association (CUNA Inc.) which is a
member of the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU). For
more information go to my RM Learning Center at:
www.RMLearningCenter.com.
- In 2009 we'll... train US veterans to be a
defense force and the world credit union movement to be an
economic development force anywhere in the world and at
anytime a credit union member or veteran's family stands in
harms way.
Richard Woldt - Commander VFW Post
8337/CEO-The Risk Management Learning Center |
Salute to Fallen Veterans
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Note:
Effective 1-1-09 this site will focus on training all
veterans through their respective posts, forming mutual
aid agreements with veteran organizations throughout the
US, and basic training for all Door County based veteran
organizations, Door County veterans are directed first
to
www.wicvso.org.
for all their veteran needs and support.
This site and
www.VFWPost8337.com,
www.cops007.com,
www.asis067.com,
and others owned by me are private sector homeland
security research sites focused primarily on forming
public-to-private international homeland security
partnerships.
Rich Woldt CEO RMLC |
Veterans are embedded at every level of the public and
private sectors of society. I use this site to
train veterans in Basic Risk Management
procedures, Incident Command and Control
(ICS) protocols, and CARVEL plus Shock threat
assessments. We'll use this site to form Strategic Homeland
Security
Partnerships (SHLSP), record Mutual Aid Agreements, and field
test "Private Sector" emergency response operations and
Private Sector Critical Incident Response Teams (PS-CIRT) protocols.
When the
scope of a crisis overwhelms or its duration
exhausts public sector first responders,
we'll...
- focus the world credit
union movement on maintaining and rebuilding
the economic infrastructure of effected
communities.
- set up "Private
Sector" emergency operation centers, and
"Private Sector" staging areas and mobilize
cost effective unified commands deployed
through veteran organizations.
- Click here to read
Basic Training R&D
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Our 2009 training
will focus on Operational Risk Management, Incident
Command and Control (ICS), CARVEL plus Shock threat
assessments. focus will remain on
safeguarding against terrorist attacks, responding
to natural disasters, and deploying "social
distancing" protocols during a pandemic.
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Welcome to Door County
Veterans . com
2008 Mission Briefing
(Click Here)
I launched this Homeland Security R&D site on the first
anniversary of the WTC terrorist attacks. This HLS project
studied local, regional, national, and international private-to-private and
public-to-private emergency response and recovery partnerships
formed during Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan, the tsunami, the
bombings at the WTC and Federal Building in Oklahoma City, as
well as U.S. wildfires, earthquakes, biological waste spills,
BLEVEs, floods and tornados requiring mass housing-in-place or
mass evacuations. During 2008 we will continue field test and
fine tune private sector response protocols, promote standard
private sector' mutual aid agreements, update RM and HLS private
sector tutorials, and update our "International Risk Management
Performance Standards" for veteran organizations, WOCCU members,
and Asian' financial cooperatives. Veterans, click here to
learn more. Credit Union
Risk Managers, click here to
learn more.
Please read the rest of this page before attending
any of our Risk Management or Homeland Security
workshops. Pay particular attention to "Step 1:
Forming HLS Partnerships and Establishing HLS Liaisons
at all levels of the public and private sectors. Page
down or click here to learn more... |
We use this site to benchmark
the "private sectors" ability to respond to
and meet victim needs
during a large scale community crisis.
And, "We use this site to merge private sector'
crisis management systems into a unified incident
command the private sector can deploy when public sector
first responders are overwhelmed by the crisis'
scope or exhausted by its duration!"
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Basic Training -
"Private" Sector Incident Command & Control! |
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A Salute to
Veterans and The World Credit Union Movement! |
This site was launched to support a five year Homeland Security
R&D project conducted by faculty at the Risk Management Learning
Center (www.RMLearningCenter.com).
I salute and thank the many U.S. veterans and veteran
organizations who volunteered their time, completed surveys, and
supported our field testing operations. I owe a special thank
you to the U.S. State Departments of Emergency Management and
the Wisconsin law enforcement associations who mentored this
project from day one.
I thank the world credit union
movement, and salute the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU),
CUNA and Affiliates, and CUNA Mutual Group for their leadership
during the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks, the tsunami, and every
hurricane, flood, tornado, and earthquake since they founding in 1934.
And, I salute the credit unions chartered specifically to serve
law enforcement, fire fighters, emergency governments, our U.S.
military and members working in transportation,
telecommunications, and the utilities industries so important to
our national economic infrastructure.
NOTE:
Our cadre of International Credit
Union Risk Managers will be using this site to access our
Homeland Security R&D files. Credit Union Chapter Leaders,
veterans and Post Commanders will use this site to access our
Homeland Security and Incident Command and Control "Basic
Training" manuals as well as our Risk Management tutorials and links to project
updates. Chapter leadersYou can also reach our business development sites
through my personal web site at
www.RichWoldt.com.
Rich Woldt - CEO The Risk Management Learning
Center
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United States Veterans Join
Forces with the International Credit Union Movement |
HLS Joint Command: Veterans and International Credit Union Risk Managers: Go
to
www.RMLearningCenter.com and click on "Faculty" icons for
your links to CPP, and CFE certification continuing educations.
You can also go to
www.ASIS067.com or
www.ACFE.com directly. Tell them I sent you. Also, go direct
to www.InfraGard.net and
www.juststolen.net to file incident report for the FBI and
law enforcement.
The Role Veterans
Play During A Large Scale Community Crisis
Following are excerpts from our Door
County Veterans' Operation Logs. Use them to reach
case studies, white papers, and Incident Command reports
based on crisis in Door County. (Note: Case studies are
based on periods of highest population concentration, in
communities with limited ability to house-in-place or
evacuate.) |
- Staging Area Management - Based on Hasenjager
barn fire in Jacksonport Wisconsin. (ASIS Chapter
067 Projects)
learn more
- Biological Attacks During Fall Festival
(RMLC Library)
learn more
- Pandemic Scare During Pumpkin-Patch Festival (RMLC
Library)
learn more
- Fighting Wild Fires During a Terrorist Attack
(RMLC Library)
learn more
- The Role the Door County Community Credit Union
Played During Katrina!
- The Role Veterans Play during Amber Alerts!
(RMLC Library)
learn more
- The Role Veterans Play during a Mass-Evacuation!
(WP)
learn more
- The Role Veterans Play during a Terrorist
Attack! (WP)
learn more
- An Overview of Federal Emergency Response Team
Training (ASIS Chapter 067 Speakers & Presentations)
learn more
- Basic Homeland Security Training for Veterans
(RMLC Curriculum 2008) (Credit Union Risk
Managers and CEO's! I recommend you sponsor a Risk
Management session at your next credit union chapter
meeting.)
learn more
- The Benefit of Embedding Veterans as Liaisons on
the Frontlines! learn more
- A Major League Thank You to our Public Sector
First Responders!
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Veterans promote HLS
Mutual Aid Agreements
TO:
All Door County Veterans! During
Phase IV and V, we'll sign mutual aid compacts at
the national level through the National Headquarters for
the VFW, American Legion, AMVETs, and Marine Corp
Leagues. We've already formed a mutual-aid network of
International Credit Union Risk Managers through the
World Council of Credit Unions and the CUNA Mutual
Insurance Group. The role Door County continues to play
in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast is a role model of
projects we're currently managing through the Caribbean.
Door County's private sector can be vary proud of you
and your fellow veterans around the world. Future
operations and deployments will be managed through the
VFW web site network. Go to
www.VFWPost8337.com
to enlist. Rich Woldt |
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U.S. Veteran' Missions & Goals |
Our mission? We update Risk Management (RM) strategies for mobilizing the
private sector during a terrorist attack, man-made or natural
disaster, pandemic, or large scale community crisis. Our goals
include speeding up the RM process to more quickly and
accurately identify the crisis type, measure the crisis' scope
along with the potential for scope creep, and deploy an appropriate and
timely risk specific "private" sector unified command.
This HLS project assumes all public sector emergency
response unites are in place, adequately staffed, properly
equipped, trained and standing mission-ready to respond the vast
majority of the time. This site specifically is focused on the
role played of the private sector during the first minutes of a
life threatening incident and when public sector first
responders are either overwhelmed by the scope or exhausted by
the duration of the crisis.
Rich Woldt - Commander VFW Post 8337 - Liberty
Grove Wisconsin USA |
Missions? Our mission is to better define the emergency response and recovery role played by
the "private" sector during a terrorist attack, natural or man-made
disaster, pandemic, or large scale community crisis. Especially
those requiring
mass housing-in-place or evacuations of more than 2,000 men,
women, and children.
We promote the same four phase project development strategy
recommended by the Department of Emergency Government for the
public sector (law enforcement, fire departments, emergency
governments, etc.).
- Phase I: We benchmark "private" sector contingency and
business resumption plan writing, their risk analyses and
pre-event self-risk assessments, their written emergency
response protocols and their crisis management systems of
choice.
- Phase II: We identify "private sector" common-denominators within U.S.
communities to span the gap between segments of the
private sector as well as bridge the gap between private
and public sector first responders.
- Phase III: We create templates for enlisting,
equipping, training, assembling, and systematically deploying
private sector assets within the first
72 hours of any worse case scenario.
- Phase IV: We establish International Risk Management
performance standards for private sector emergency response
and recovery volunteers.
Private Sector - Homeland Security Liaisons: |
It's a fact! "No one has all the right answers and there are no silver
bullets!" Consequently, we establish "closed-loop" feedback
systems using veterans and veteran organizations in the United
States and the world credit union movement through its credit
union chapters, leagues, national and international credit union
trade associations. This provides our RM project teams with
liaisons embedded at all levels of the private, public, and
international segments of society. Adhering to the "concertina"
principle of unified command and control, liaison teams expand and contract to meet the needs of the
community, region, national, or international community they
serve. Following are examples of our liaison templates.
Click here to view U.S. veteran' "Public
Sector" Liaisons!
Click here to view U.S. veteran' "Private
Sector" Liaisons!
Click here to view International Risk
Management Liaisons!
Tutorial Drafts:
These tutorial drafts are used during RMLC workshops. They are not to be copied or distributed
without written permission of an RMLC faculty member. If
the links do not work, contact your credit union director of
education for assistance.
Rich Woldt
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US veterans through their posts and veteran organizations and
credit union members through their credit unions, chapters, and
trade associations were selected to bridge the gap between
industries as well as between any group, club, society, or
organization representing a social or business segment of the
private sector. InfraGard was selected to bridge the gap between
the private and public sectors. While other international
private security associations such as ASIS and the FSPA were
heavily involved in establishing g international private sector
emergency response performance standards, InfraGard consistently
was identified as the organization best positioned to coordinate
the formation of any public-to-private homeland security
partnerships.
Rich Woldt - VFW Post 8337 |
Posted 4-1-08: Effective immediately,
www.GuardianVets.com
will be used as our primary HLS R&D training site. I know
it's under construction but we're already using it as a tutorial
in the international credit union movement. This will
complete the integration of sites supporting our U.S.
veterans and our WOCCU/International Credit Union Risk
Management projects.
www.VFWPost8337.com will be used specifically for basic and
advanced RM training for veterans. Everyone, should download the
VFW tool bar and become familiar with the HLS training as well
as the "radio" functions. We're working to broadcast Door County
League Baseball via that radio system. Use the links below
to access our public, private, and international liaisons. Note,
these are templates. The actual persons in each liaison post
will change over time.
Rich Woldt
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This page is set up to be
printed as a handout during basic training. If read on line the
links should hotlink you to appropriate public sector web sites. Note:
I attempt to color code our R&D sites to help researchers
track their input.
Gray usually is
dated status reports from me.
Green has
something to do with Homeland Security,
red and
yellow are used
to guide students, and
white is usually the most current updates.
Rich Woldt - VFW Post 8337 Liberty Grove
Welcome to
www.DoorCountyVeterans.com.
This is a U.S. Veteran' Homeland Security research and
development site managed by The Risk Management Learning Center at:
www.RMLearningCenter.com.
We launched it as a teaching tool for the "private" sector.
Its focus is on what the "private" sector can do during
any community crisis who's scope overwhelms or duration exhausts
public sector first responders. This site was created to answer the call
from the Department of Homeland Security to design, develop, and deploy
a "private" sector response during the next terrorist attack, man-made
or natural disaster, pandemic, or large scale community crisis.
This site is constantly under construction but not often
updated. I use it to HLS tutorials and research papers for
veteran and veteran organizations in the private sector. For
example,
click here to reach project R&D files for our veteran liaison project.
During this project we created a local, district, state, national and
international network of HLS liaisons we'd use to form a unified command
comprised of US veterans and the world credit union movement. The project included creating functional
public-to-private homeland security partnerships focused on combating
terrorist threats and preparing the private sector for the next man-made
or natural disaster, pandemic, or large scale community crisis requiring
either mass housing-in-place or a mass evacuation.
Veteran' HLS
Partnerships depend on Veteran' HLS Liaisons!:
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Building cost effective and efficient public-to-private
sector HLS partnerships required us to build an internet based
network of domestic and international public and private sector
liaisons. Click on one of the following buttons to reach the
liaison templates we created for Door County. Note, these are
templates we'll use in our RMLC tutorials. The actual person in each
position will depend on the private sector organization using
the template.
Click here to view U.S. veteran' "Public
Sector" Liaisons!
Click here to view U.S. veteran' "Private
Sector" Liaisons!
Click here to view International Risk
Management Liaisons!
Click here to view our five year Homeland
Security Mission Statement!
Click here to preview "Private Sector" Homeland
Security tutorial template!
Click here for "unified" command briefing from Hurricane
Ivan in Jamaica!
Click here for
briefing on 1st responder protocols!
Click here for briefing on contingency planning!
Click here for briefing on mass-evacuations controllable crime
scenes!
Future tutorials should be downloaded from
www.RMLearningCenter.com
Always go to your Door County Director
of Emergency Management for the latest Door County Homeland
Security training, handouts, posters, etc. Go to
www.co.door.wi.gov
- Homeland Security projects and programs
promoted at this site are strictly for the private sector of
society. All tutorials and templates are designed to be used
anywhere in the world, by any company, business association,
club, society, or group of any size or organizational structure.
Credit unions should go to
www.RMLearningCenter.com for credit union specific HLS and
Risk Management training and tutorials.
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This site has been parked which means you can
now go to individual post sites or
www.wicvso.org for what I
call a link to the world of veterans. For example, go to
www.vfwpost8337.com and
join the VFW. While there, download the VFW toolbar and complete
the Door County Veteran' Roll Call. That site will link you to
Door Co. law enforcement, fire fighter, and emergency government sites
as well as our veteran' liaisons in the public, private, and
international sectors. Until further notice this
site will be used as a pass-through site for veteran posts
chartered in Door County.
Log into www.wicvso.org,
introduce yourself to your County Veteran' Service Officer - Scott
McFarlane and as Scott says, "Get the benefits you deserve! You've
earned them!"
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www.DoorCountyVeterans.com |
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Richard A.
Woldt Commanding
VFW Post 8337
Cell # 608-712-7880 |
We'll
never forget nor be caught off guard!
Message to Jeffery Budzis
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All
Veterans and Post Commanders: I've formed a global
response to the next terrorist attack.
Click here
to join our mutual aid "pack", and learn more about our
Homeland Security, VIPER, and CIRT Basic Training.
Go to
www.VFWPost8337.com to:
- Download the VFW tool bar!
- Take tours listed in left column
- Join the post of your choice
- Get involved!
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Scott McFarlane
Door County Veterans Service
Officer (CVSO)Place
www.wicvso.org
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A three
member "Veterans Commission" appointed by the Door County Board of
Supervisors hires a "Veteran's Service Officer" to administer veterans
affairs in Door County. There is also a "Veteran's Council" made up of
two representatives from each post. Go to
www.wicvso.org
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There are four American Legion posts in Door County (Post 72 in
Sturgeon Bay, Post 372 in Maplewood, Post 527 in Sister Bay, and Post
402 on Washington Island), three Veteran of Foreign War (VFW) posts
(Liberty Grove Post 8337, Fish Creek Post 9290, and Sturgeon Bay post
3088), one AMVET Post 51 in Sturgeon Bay, one Marine Corp League
Detachment 1130 in Sturgeon Bay and the Cooties Post 43 in Sturgeon Bay.
(Yes, I know the Cooties have not been seen for awhile, but they're out
there somewhere so be ready to party the next time one crosses your
path).
Rich Woldt
Lifetime VFW Member
Mutual Aid
Agreements
2009 Homeland Security Private Sector Partnerships |
We've reduced the time it takes to assemble private
sector' CIRT and VIPER squads, form Unified Commands and
establish private sector'
Emergency Operations Centers (EOC's) and Staging Areas.
- We updated our private
sector EOC, Staging Area, and on-site Incident Command Post
(ICP).
- We've updated our private sector deployment protocols
to
include "best practices" from RMLC post
crisis surveys between
2001 and 2009.
- We've established an
on-line mustering/roll-call and command system to
merge veteran' and International CURM response and
recovery assets.
- We continue to build liaisons with national
biker organizations such as Rolling Thunder
www.RollingThunderwi3.org and The Patriot
Guard Riders
www.patriotguard.org as well as local
clubs such as the TITANs and NEWBA.and
Note: For security
reasons credit unions not already logged into these
programs are asked to go through either their league,
chapter, or CMG representatives to be properly
identified and qualified to join. At a minimum credit
union, league and chapter liaisons must have been
accepted into InfraGard.
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We're a "Home-Rule" Society
Let-it-be-written!
Let it be done!
The USA is a "Home-Rule" society. We're responsible and
accountable for our own law and order. When our
community grows, we collectively elect County/Shire
Riffs and hire Police/Garda Chiefs to enforce our laws.
To help ensure our health safety, we assemble and train
fire fighters and empower one to take command when our
community stands in harms way. As a community we hire,
equip, train and retrain emergency response teams
appropriate to risks created by our society and unique
to each community. When "single commands" escalate to
"unified," when the crisis scope overwhelms or the
duration exhausts, public-to-private partnerships
respond to rescue victims and rebuild communities.
Terrorist
Target Characteristics:
Terrorist' target characteristics include
concentrated populations, a high initial body
count, vulnerable secondary targets, vulnerable
communication links, and global media attention.
Combat strategies include recruiting embedded
liaisons, triggering attacks off any community
crisis, and franchising operations to
extremists.
Our "Private" Sector Veteran'
unified command starts with 12 positions
commanded by the Post Commander closest to the
incident scene. Our "Private" Sector Credit
Union unified command starts with 12 positions
commanded by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors from the credit union closest to the
incident scene. Both have only one Incident
Commander and both adopt to the incident scope
and potential for scope creep (Concertina
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Public Sector Homeland Security Strategic
Initiatives
After the terrorist' attacks of 9-11-01 our Public
Sector launched a four year project to hire, equip,
train, and deploy public sector response assets based on
incident type, scope, and potential for scope creep.
When Hurricane Katrina systematically overwhelmed our
Public Sector a call went out from the Department of
Homeland Security to mobilize a Private Sector response
following the same Incident Command System required of
Public Sector' Law Enforcement, Emergency Governments,
and Fire Fighters.
International Private Sector Incident Command and
Control Performance Standards that evolved since
9-11-01, the tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina include:
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A 72 hour stand-alone
protocols for companies with more than 500
employees.
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Improved "High-rise
evacuation protocols.
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Upgraded Contingency Plans,
Business Continuity Plans, Business
Resumption Plans, and Management Succession
Plans,
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Expanded Executive
Protection protocols to include CEOs, Boards
of Directors and their family members.
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Branch Banking protocols to
include liquidity management programs during
mass housing-in-place and mass evacuations.
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Formation of
Public-to-Private Sector Partnerships
following Incident Command System and
National Incident Management System
policies, procedures, and protocols.
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P-to P Partnerships must be
based on a worst case scenario that includes
a 9-11-01 scope terrorst' attacks, natural
and man-made disasters, pandemic, and a
large scale/level 3 community crisis.
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Private Sector ICS
performance standards include:
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Operational Period #1:
Stabilizing victims, defining the incident
type, estimating the incident scope,
predicting the potential for incident cope
creep, and speeding public sector response
personnel and assets to the scene.
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Operational Period #2: Set
up incident appropriate "Private Sector"
Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), Staging
Areas, and Mobile Command Centers three
miles from ground zero.
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Operational
Period #3:
Mobilize a Veteran - Credit Union Movement
Unified Command focused on victim recovery
and community reconstruction.
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Benefits from this project include:
- To ensure a coordinated response during the next
terrorist attack, natural or man-made disaster,
pandemic, or large scale community crisis, we adopted
the Incident Command System (ICS) to the private sector
and adopted NIMS as a private sector emergency response
vocabulary.
- To improve communications we created a network of
public/private sector liaisons capable of 24/7 "closed-loop"
secured communications, and flexible enough to adjust to any and
all unified command structures.
- To better support public
sector first responders when the incident scope
overwhelms their ability to respond or incident scope
creep exhausts their response and recovery assets, we
created private sector supply lines to reinforce both
public sector personnel and their response/recovery
assets.
- To reduce confusion and improve communications
during the next crisis, we've improved private sector
EOC and Staging area floor plans, simplified private
sector incident plan writing, introduced GPS into
private sector logistics, established standard claims
settlement and claims adjusting procedures for the
private sector Incident Command - Chief of Finance.
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Thank You Door County!
Your support and
cooperation during this 5 year RMLC Homeland
Security project will not be forgotten.
"Effective and efficient Public to Private
Homeland Security Partnerships work when they operate
separate and distinct from each other until one reaches
out to the other and requests a "Unified" response
properly focused on the best interests of victims and
their community in harms way"
Click here to view veteran' "Public
Sector" Liaisons!
Click here to view veteran' "Private
Sector" Liaisons!
Click here to view International Risk
Management Liaisons!
Click here to view VFW Post 8337 Bulletin Board!
Click here to preview "Private Sector" Homeland
Security tutorials!
Rich Woldt CPP, CFE, CEO ----
The Risk Management Learning
Center
www.RMLearningCenter.com
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Question? I'm often asked, "How does this
study relate to what the US public sector is already doing?"
Answer: Our public sector first responders i.e. law
enforcement, fire fighters, emergency governments, etc. are our
first line of defense. After Katrina, it became obvious that at
some point our first line of defense can and will be overwhelmed
by the scope or exhausted by the duration of the crisis. The
order went out from the top levels of the public sector to
launch an initiative focused on mobilizing the private sector if
and when they're needed. This study was an answer to that call.
Question? What role did Door County play in this
five year Homeland Security Study?
Answer: Because I was born and raised in Fish Creek
and have now retired in Sturgeon Bay, it was convenient to use
use Door County as a role model for the world. While Door County
represented less than 1/10 of one per cent of the
counties/parishes/shires studied, it was convenient for
collecting visuals for Risk Management case studies, tutorials,
and videos. In the study, Door County was pooled with Pitkin
County (Aspen) Colorado, Jamaica, Ireland, So. Korea, Hawaii,
and coastal regions of the United Kingdom. Why? All pose similar
Risk Management challenges. For example, all have similar
population concentrations that fluctuate based on international
tourism. Door County is on a peninsula and Aspen is in a valley.
Consequently, emergency response protocols are similar. Both
need to focus heavily on housing-in-place during the first
operational period, preparing shelters to stand-alone for the
national standard 72 hours. If a mass evacuation is ordered,
both counties and communities pose the same terrorist threats,
transportation bottle necks, and pandemic' "social distancing"
challenges. Door County is unique because communities on the
west side of the peninsula along highway 42 face distinctly
different risks than communities along highway 57. And, in my
top ten list of reasons I used Door County in this study, I've
been involved with law enforcement, fire fighters, and emergency
government in Door County since the 1950s.
Each study group was benchmarked annually, comparing where
they were to where they were expected to be based on benchmarks
set by US emergency government and homeland security performance
standards. Door County residents can be proud of our public
sector. Note: to avoid any bias, everyone studied was given a
coded number so benchmarking judged only the performance and not
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Benefits from this project include:
- To ensure every man, women, and child in
the private sector is on-board before the next terrorist attack,
natural or man-made disaster, pandemic, or large scale community
crisis, we developed a series of private sector "basic training"
tutorials and field tests to benchmark the private sector's
readiness to respond.
Without a doubt
the most enjoyable part of this Homeland Security R&D
project was having an opportunity to learn from Public
and Private sector professionals who willingly and
without reservation shared their knowledge and
experience. I will always cherish the time we shared. I
will always look forward to the next time our paths
cross. I'm confident, whether we meet during the next
tornado, gas explosion, toxic waste spill, wildfire,
flood, pandemic or terrorist attack we'll together
step-up-to-the-plate and work together like a well oiled
machine under a community "unified" command!
I owe a special thank you to Door County's Public
Sector for the role they played during our field testing
of "private sector" emergency response and recovery
protocols.
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Note:
go to your respective post' web site such as
www.VFWPost8337.com or
our CVSO website at
www.wicvso.org to determine your eligibility
to belong to one of the seven veteran posts in Door County.
Click here for a tribute to John Mahoney ---
Click here!
Click here for a word copy of VFW Post 8337 January
news letter and tribute to Richard S. Davis to post.
Click here
for pdf file!
Note: Per our CVSO...
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html is an
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Go to
www.co.door.wi.gov to fully appreciate the quality
of service and high level of professionalism
demonstrated daily at the county level.
Rich Woldt - VFW Post 8337
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Posted 1-1-08
VFW
Post 8337' Homeland Security
Research and Development (R&D) Site
Mission Accomplished
Please
read before using this site!
This web site was launched as part of a Department of Homeland
Security R&D project focused on building more effective and
efficient "public-to-private" partnerships in the war on
terrorism. To conform with HLS public sector' dictates, the
Incident Command System (ICS) was adopted as the incident
management system to be taught in the U.S. private sector and
NIMS terminology was adopted as the incident management
vocabulary. For this web site, Public sector law enforcement was
represented by Wisconsin's County Sheriffs and Sheriff's
associations, Wisconsin's Chiefs of Police and Chiefs of Police
associations. The Wisconsin National Guard and all US military
personnel mentored by Major General (Retired) Al Wilkening
appointed by Governor Jim Doyle to lead the States citizen and
volunteer emergency preparedness efforts and Brigadier General
Donald P. Dunbar, Adjutant General of Wisconsin (effective
9-1-07). General Dunbar is responsible for the federal and state
missions of the Wisconsin National Guard and the Wisconsin
Division of Emergency Government. He is also the governor's
Homeland Security Advisor and chairs the governor's Homeland
Security Council. Specific to this web site study only, public
sector emergency management was represented by public sector
personnel under the direction and control of Johnnie Smith the
Director of Wisconsin Emergency Management. That did include all
Wisconsin Fire Chiefs and Emergency Metical Technicians (EMTs,)
hospital and Department of Health and Social service agencies
and their "professional" associations.
It is critically important to underscore that at no time did
this study judge or criticize the performance, training, or
dedication of an individual or department representing the
public sector. To avoid bias, all
public sector employees studied were given a coded number so
only by having access to our key-codes would researchers know
the identify of those being critiqued. In addition, this study
involved over 300 counties/parishes in the US so the impact Door
County's public sector statistically had on project conclusions
was negligible at best. Although many visuals documenting
HLS protocols came from Door County, statistically Door County's
public sector represented less than 1/10 of one per-cent of the
public sector agencies involved in the RMLC International
Homeland Security study.
The "Private Sector" represented in the study included credit
unions belonging to WOCCU (The World Council of Credit Unions),
chartered volunteer organizations and their respective U.S.
State and Federal associations, US military veterans and their
chartered posts, and chartered U.S. State and Federal veteran'
associations.
From a world credit union standpoint, this study resulted in
the "International Credit Union Risk Management" performance
standards we teaching at
www.RMLearningCenter.com and the emergency response and
recovery protocols that will be taught through a "Basic
Training" program under development at
www.VFWPost8337.com.
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web site is published by Rich Woldt. For more information go to
the Risk Management Learning Center at
www.RMLearningCenter.com Note: All site contents is copy
written. |
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