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UNCLASSIFIED Agenda Defense Support of Civil Authorities for Mortuary Affairs • NORAD-USNORTHCOM Quick Overview North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) • Military Mortuary Affairs – Roles, Missions, Forces and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) • How and when to request support Eric D. Martin Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Joint Mortuary Affairs Officer NORAD-USNORTHCOM J4 Peterson AFB, Colorado 719-554-7232 Eric.martin@northcom.mil UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Overview • NORAD - A Bi-National Command (US, Canada) • Aerospace Warning and Control • NORTHCOM – A Combatant Command • Homeland Defense • Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) UNCLASSIFIED 1

UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Military Mortuary Affairs Responsibilities • In DoD, mortuary affairs is a logistics function . The primary responsible officer within USNORTHCOM is the Joint Mortuary Affairs Officer (JMAO) assigned to the Director of Logistics • Under the National Response Plan, fatality management falls under ESF 8, Public Health and Medical Services. The Department of Health and Human Services is the primary responsible federal agency UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Jurisdiction Likely Requests for DOD Assistance • Search and Recovery* • Decontamination* DOD will almost always be in support of • Identification another federal agency or local authority • Disposition (Mass Burial) • Advisory Support *National Capability Shortfalls UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 2

UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED DOD Capability Military Mortuary Affairs - 54 th Company (MA) USA, Ft Lee Va.-203 Logistics Functions • Combatant Commands (not Medical/Health) - 111 th Company (MA) USA, Ft Lee VA. - 203 •Recover the dead •Transport to a main collection point - 311 th Company (MA) USAR, PR-203 •Make and maintain records (custody, personal effects, tentative ID) •Coordinate transport to Dover AFB - 246 th Company (MA) USAR, PR-176 •Casualty reporting of assigned personnel to Services and DOD • Services (Army, Navy, USMC, USAF) with their installations - Personnel Recovery & Processing Co USMC -140 •Casualty Notification - 512 th Squadron (MA) USAF, Dover AFB-63 •Family Assistance •Grief counseling - Other Air Force Service Support Squadrons • Dover Port Mortuary / Armed Forces Medical Examiner and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology - Joint POW and MIA Accounting Command HI-400 •Forensic expertise (autopsy, definitive ID) There is NO Fatality Management Office in NC •Preparation for burial - Armed Forces Medical Examiners Office 4-7 •J4 – Recovery, transport •Transfer to family/funeral home •J1 – Casualty reporting - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology 9-11 •HC – Spiritual welfare and family support issues - Dover Port Mortuary 8-10 (Expandable via Contracts) UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED BIAP, Baghdad, Iraq Reefer trailer ISU-96 Processing Tent Home – One of Many UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Search and Recovery Recovery Squads RTF … DECON • 2-10 MA Trained Personnel or • Combination of MA and Non-MA workers • Driver • Eng/EOD (as required) Response + t n e d i EOD c n I • Embed with Law Enforcement • Eng/EOD (as required) • Cadaver Dogs UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 3

UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO Collection Points Mortuary Affairs Response Concept Legal Authority • County Coroners/Governor 6 PERSONNEL 6 PERSONNEL FUNCTIONS Local Provider Tasks • Direct Recovery/integrate Feds Hot Zone • Initiate continual chain • Approve DOD Authorities • Final Disposition Decision of custody for personal 1 M931 5T Tractor • Notify NOK 1 M871 Trailer • Contract Recovery Labor effects 1 8x8x20 Refer Mobile Collection Points (LE, NG or DOD) Federal Non-DOD Tasks 1 M923 5T Cargo • Deploy DMORT teams 1M149 Water Trailer • Establish Tentative ID • Employ Morgue Units 1 10KW/3KW Generator Proposed Temp Interment • Decon 50 / day (name Association) • Contract Refer Storage X X • Contract recovery labor Personnel No change • Operate Temp Storage 3 Setup 3 hours • Provide dignity, reverence • DNA sampling DECON Tents Tear Down 15 hours 10KW 3KW Mobility No offroad capability and respect DOD Tasks generator generator Footprint 9,295 cubic feet of • Search and Recover Dead TEMPORARY MORGUE Temp Storage, (Local, FEMA) • Operate Collection Points equipment DNA Sampling, attempt ID • Preserve remains in viewable • Decon 50 / day Send to NOK or Temp Inter DOD FORCE DECON – if possible • Reinforce DMORT Teams 12 Camo Base: 2 MA Companies condition C2 – CSS BN HQ • Conduct Temp Interment systems • DNA typing and sampling CONTRACTED FORCE • Evacuate remains • TBD UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED MADCP Large Mass Fatality Event Mass Temporary Interment Mortuary Affairs Decontamination Collection Point (MADCP) • Decision – Governor – 38 person Ad Hoc Team (12-14 MA) Can decon 30-48 remains in a 12 hour shift. • Army Mortuary Affairs Companies Trained • Preserve DNA sample for ID later – Not sufficient for large number of remains • Record remains location referenced to DNA (>1,000) sample No capability exists in the United States to decontaminate a large number of remains UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Armed Forces Medical Examiner Requesting Support The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System • FEMA – Manages Federal Response (including DOD) – Organized according to the Incident Command System • The AFME – U.S. Navy Captain – Medical Doctor – ESF 8 sends Requests for Assistance to FCO and DCO for • Oversees the following action – 5 regional military medical examiners • Federal Coordinating Officer – Armed Forces Institute of Pathology – Approves requests for assistance – Dover Port Mortuary – Coords with DCO • Defense Coordinating Officer • Exercises secondary jurisdiction and assists FBI – Region IX – Col Mark Armstrong, Oakland CA – Space shuttle disaster – Locates at Joint Field Office – Pentagon 9/11 – Interfaces directly with FEMA and FCO – Sends RFA/Mission Assignments higher for approval – Under the command of USNORTHCOM when activated UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 4

UNCLASSIFIED Final Thoughts EXORD or MOD Stakeholders Designates supporting and supported commands and ARNORTH, AFNORTH, CFFC, Joint Staff EXORD or MOD C2 relationship. Tasks MARFORNORTH, TRANSCOM, Commands, Services and STRATCOM, PACOM, NRCC, JDOMS DoD Agencies to deploy Yes DCO, LNO, etc. and execute mission. SECDEF Coordination with Services, Coordination JFCOM, DoD Agencies, USNORTHCOM End Approve and Combatant Commands. No Evaluates RFA, does mission Mission Passes recommendation to analysis, coordinates with SecDef for decision. “Stakeholders”, recommends forces and forwards to JDOMS DoD Deny Request OASD(HD) •No federal asset or plan exists to recover a large number Return to originator ExecSec No E / of remains O C D Pre-Scripted? Yes DLO / DCO DCO Coordinates with JTF, and Or, Proper DOD passes RFA to USNORTHCOM Habitually support Mission? EPLO JTF (when est.) Coordination FEMA Regional offices •Command, control, and coordination of a mass fatality Yes LFA Assess impact, makes FCO recommendation, USSS, DOJ, DoD ExecSec Is FEMA or a FCO No event will be complex and problematic DOS, DHHS requests added operational is the primary the Requestor? USCP, NTSB, entry for RFA support, issues WARNORD if USDA, NIFC, Disaster declaration! into DoD Others determined that already deployed No SCO forces can fill. USACE or •The legal and procedural framework for a national Yes Nat. Guard End & EMAC fill? Requester obtains sponsorship EPLO from LFA who passes RFA to response to a large mass fatality event needs to be DoD ExecSec under terms of Common to all RFA No the Economy Act. Yes Immediate Non-Stafford Path created Response? Non-Stafford Act Request: Stafford Act RFA Path Cancel Start Pre & Post-Stafford Act Requests (Incident anticipated or occurs) As of 30 March 06 Start Regardless of whether or not there is a Presidential Disaster Declaration, Commanders may respond to request under Immediate Response UNCLASSIFIED Authority to 1) Save lives 2) Mitigate great property damage 3) Prevent human suffering. (Report to higher ASAP) End UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 5