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Operation Lone Star is an annual joint
military and civil humanitarian medical mission that takes place along
the Texas-Mexico border. The purpose of this collaborative effort is to
conduct Medical-Innovative Readiness Training exercises while
simultaneously providing free medical services to residents across the
Rio Grande Valley
NOTICE
Beginning in 2008, headquarters
requires that all Medical Brigade personnel must complete Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
Independent Study Program (ISP) course courses 100, 200,
700, and 800 to be eligible to participate in Operation
Lone Star. Personnel will be required to furnish
an official FEMA EMI ISP transcript (not the Student Record).
There is no cost in completing these
courses.
(Many of you may have already taken
these courses as part of your MEMS qualification.)
The required course titles are:
IS-100 Introduction to Incident
Command System
IS-200 Basic Incident Command System
IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction
IS-800 National Response Plan (NRP), An Introduction
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