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FORT STEWART, Ga. - If a weather emergency were to occur on post, Eric Waters and his team at the Installation Operations Center would immediately take action and sound the appropriate notifications throughout Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield.
On Aug. 8, a group of representatives from several post directorates learned what the IOC and four other functions within the Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security operate during a Professional Development Tour led by Willie Jones, chief of Stewart’s DPTMS plans and operation division.
A total of 25 representatives from seven different directorates went on the tour that took them to five different post locations.
The tour is part of a quarterly event initiated in 2010 by the garrison commander and conducted by a different post directorate and designed to give civilian and military employees on post a sense of how each directorate works and operates.
The first location took them to the IOC, where Waters explained the many functions inside the IOC.
“This little building is like TNT,” Waters said of his 24/7 operations. “Whatever happens on post happens here in this room.”
Waters said his team is in constant contact with multiple sources in order to properly inform the public.
One of the daily contacts includes the 26th Operational Weather Squadron, an Air Force unit stationed at Barksdale, La.
“We provide 24 hour monitoring of the weather situation,” Waters said. “If we receive that [a call from the 26th], then we have a requirement to sat off the emergency warning system.”
Other functions they monitor include redeployment flights and welcome home ceremonies, casualty information and the bugle calls.
“Anything that happens on this installation as far as emergency situation, we monitor that,” he said.
Waters said the 911 operations center that shares the building helps them monitor emergency situations.
Ben Collins, the 911 center director, said his staff processes about 40,000 calls a year, or about 500 per day. He said those calls will dispatch law enforcement, fire and emergence management service personnel to Stewart or Hunter.
“We’re truly a small city here,” Collins said. “If you call us from your cellphone, we will know exactly where you’re at, down to the parking lot.”
After touring the IOC and 911 Center, the group moved on to the Multimedia Visual Information Service Center.
Personnel from this DPMTS office documents almost post event through video and/or photographs. They also support the command by providing graphic support. Another function of this office includes providing soldiers with a free official photograph for their personal files.
From there, the group went to the Crisis Management Center and the Force management branch.
The last stop of the tour took them to the Virtual Training Center, where the group got the chance to shoot a simulated weapon in one of the nine indoor engagement skills training ranges in the building.
The VTC maintains about 150 EST weapons lanes, two Humvee Egress Assistance Trainers and other simulated training aids, including an IED removal simulator, on Stewart and Hunter.
| Date Taken: | 08.15.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 08.15.2013 12:20 |
| Story ID: | 112024 |
| Location: | FORT STEWART, GEORGIA, US |
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