INSTALLAT LT. VINCENT DEL GRECO LISTS LOGISTICS BRANCH NEEDS DURING RECENT EOC-IMT TRAINING.
EOC-IMT Training conducted at NNSY BY ANNA TAYLOR • PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST PHOTOS BY KRISTI BRITT • PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST Norfolk Naval Shipyard recently conducted Emergency Operations Center - Incident Management Team (EOC-IMT) training, qualifying 30 military and civilian employees as IMT members. Attended by shipyard Sailors, civilians and tenant command employees, the three-day course focused on Emergency EOC organization and coordination, information management, "SMART" objective development, incident action planning, resource management, recovery operations and Command, Control, Communications Computers and Intelligence (C4I) familiarization. The training was facilitated by the Shore Operations Training Group from Commander, Navy Installations Command, which teaches courses to EOC responders around the country. “It demonstrated the complex networking required to effectively mitigate emergencies,” said Assistant Public Works Officer Lt. 16 • SERVICE TO THE FLEET • NOVEMBER 2018
Vincent Del Greco. “Clear lines of communications within a multi-organization network are vital to ensuring a timely response as well as ensuring the right decisions are made. By knowing what resources are available before an emergency event takes place decisions can be made in a more expeditious manner.” “We also learned how important it is to have an understanding of other response organizations, which allows for mutually beneficial cooperation and integration,” added Emergency Management Specialist Reuben Johnson. Along with attending the classroom lectures, students were required to put the training into action during practical, small-scale exercises designed by the trainers.