{"id":26048,"date":"2022-06-12T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/06\/12\/fort-eustis-unit-ready-when-civilian-authorities-call\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:57:42","slug":"fort-eustis-unit-ready-when-civilian-authorities-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/06\/12\/fort-eustis-unit-ready-when-civilian-authorities-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Eustis unit ready when civilian authorities call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEWPORT NEWS, Va. \u2014 On the first day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/04\/08\/above-average-2021-atlantic-hurricane-season-may-keep-guard-busy-threaten-bases\/\" target=\"_blank\">hurricane season<\/a>, Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Struikman\u2019s job included aiming one of the satellite dishes his team would use if civilian authorities call for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was practice \u2014 this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His incident support team, like others at Fort Eustis based Joint Task Force-Civil Support, trains regularly to respond to anything from a nuclear accident or attack to a hurricane. He\u2019s been doing it since September, coming off deployment with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2016\/11\/23\/u-s-airstrikes-from-carrier-eisenhower-top-1000-against-isis-in-iraq-and-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a>, where he was leading petty officer for the cybersecurity division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, his team can be on the move in five hours to receive and support military personnel responding to a civilian call for help. He and his teammates find food, shelter and fuel for those troops. Their reports to JTF-CS headquarters at Fort Eustis help experts determine what else might be needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Setting up the communications link takes \u201cmaybe five minutes,\u201d Struikman said. He\u2019s learned the likely position of the geosynchronous orbiting military satellite that\u2019s his main link, no matter where in the U.S. he might go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the dish is set up and roughly aimed, it typically takes only one or two trips back and forth to his laptop in the team\u2019s operations tent, checking the signal, to get the aim exactly right. He also sets up a small disc that targets commercial satellites, but it can aim itself. From then, he\u2019s the one handling the team\u2019s steady stream of messages in and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For two decades, the 150 members of Joint Task Force-Civil Support have been the Department of Defense\u2019s command and control unit for chemical, nuclear, biological or radiological attacks. Earlier this year, it also was tasked with taking on that role for all hazards, including the hurricanes and pandemics where it has already been playing a role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, too, JTF-CS decided to shift from having a main support team to organizing several smaller ones. They usually number a half-dozen people, including operations planners, a logistics specialist and a medical coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having more, smaller teams meant that when Marine Lt. Col. 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Most days are focused on practicing what to do with scenarios \u2014 \u201clots of sets and reps,\u201d as operations director, Marine Lt. Col. Christopher Grasso put it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But staff are also always actively on the watch for situations that could mean a call for military help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s a big point for everyone at the command: they step in to help after a disaster when a state asks for federal help, and in turn a designated civilian federal agency \u2014 usually the Federal Emergency Management Agency \u2014 determines that the military has the resources needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a civilian incident manager \u2014 an official of a state or local government \u2014 who says what jobs need doing, not the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Struikman\u2019s team, for instance, having people on the ground means the logistics expert, Lt. Cmdr. 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