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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013) : The Office, [1999]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)43463025 Subject: Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention. Excerpt: ... B-282299 and who most need it - the first responder community. According to these officials, it would be far more effective to improve the capabilities in the first responder community than to create additional capabilities to assist them. There are 89 Air National Guard civil engineering units spread throughout Military Assets Available to the 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, that the Assist First Responders state governors or federal officials can access to help in a WMD event. These civil engineering units - Prime Base Engineering Emergency Forces, known as " Prime BEEF " units - have the wartime mission of supporting sustained air operations with equipment and personnel to ensure capabilities for operating and surviving in a WMD attack and mitigating the consequences of an attack. Their functions include monitoring chemical plumes, detecting and identifying chemical agents and radioactivity, controlling contamination, decontaminating equipment and personnel, assessing the situation, and building temporary shelters. The Air Guard also has 78 Prime BEEF fire fighting units that are trained in handling hazardous materials, such as jet fuel and hydrazine, related to aircraft maintenance and operations and cleaning up spills. In addition, the Air Guard has 10 Explosive Ordnance Disposal units that are capable of handling WMD devices and plans to increase the number of these units to 44 in the next 5 years. According to Air Guard officials, these skilled units could be of great use to local incident commanders in a WMD attack on civilian targets, if their equipment and training were upgraded to allow " hot zone " entry and they trained with the local first responders. This would allow these units to be available to the states, not only in a WMD e
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