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Col. Bill Stevenson employs decadesof
emergency management.experience at JTF-CS
Operations officer is
citizen soldier,
FEMA leader
Byu,s. Navy Petty Officer 2nd
Class Brian Dietrick
Special to the Cape Gazette
For most in disaster response
work, opportunities to experi-
ence preparedness efforts
through service in multiple agen-
cies are rare. Maryland National
Guard U.S. Army Col. Bill
Stevenson is getting that chance
while working at Joint Task
Force Civil Support.
Stevenson, who has 35 years of
experience in emergency man-
agement and response, works
the operations officer of a na-
tional Incident Management As-
sistance Team for the Federal
Emergency Management
Agency when not under Nation-
al Guard duties.
For the past month, Stevenson
has served in uniform at JTF-CS,
where he worked in the Opera-
tions, Training and Readiness di-.
rectorate. Prior to starting his du-
ties here, the 56-year-old Lewes
native briefed ]TF-CS and other
federal and local disaster
sponse and planning leaders
the role FEM.Rs incident man-
agement team plays in domestic
disaster response operations.
]TF-CS is the nations' only
standing CBRN joint task force
that anticipateS, plans and inte-
grates chemical, biological, radi-
0logical and nuclear response
operations. ]TF-CS commands a
5,200-person domestic response
force composed of soldiers,
sailors, airmen and marines. On
order, these forces provide urban
search and rescue, patient de-
contamination,
casualty/ground/air evacuation
and general logistics support.
"JTF-CS is one of the most
readily available forces in
CONUS," Ste#enson said. "I'm
gratified how closely aligned
both forces are so we understand
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
U.$. AIR FORCE Maj. Gen. Jonathan T. Treacy, left, commander, Joint Task Forc~e
Civil Support, thanks U.S. Army Col. Stevenson, a Maryland National Guard mem-
ber and Lewes native, for the eight weeks of service Stevenson put in at JTF-CS
from February to March of this year. Stevenson, who worked in JTF-CS' Operations,
re- Training and Readiness Directorate, is a 3S-ye,ar veteran in emergency manage-
on tnent and response.
what each force is doing and how
the pieces fit together."
After he briefed the command
in February, Stevenson remained
at JTF-CS, but swapped his blue
FEMA polo for his Army combat
uniform. Stevenson spent eight
weeks coordinating with 1TF-CS'
community of partners - the var-
ious federal, state and local mili-
tary and civilian government
agencies tasked to provide disas-
ter response services. He also as-
sisted JTF-CS in streamlining its,
prescripted mission assignments
used during the initial hours of a
federal-level response in support
of a state government following a
catastrophic CBRN event.
"We wanted to come down to
link up with you guys so we Can
understand your mission and
you can understand Our mission
and how we're going to work to-
gether," Stevenson said. "We will
be working together if there is an
incident."
Stevenson is at ITF-CS as a
nonofficial liaison from FEMA to
shorten loops in the decision-
making process.
Continued on page 58
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