UNCLASSIFIED Operation United Assistance

1 UNCLASSIFIED Air Assault!

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Monrovia, Liberia

2014-2015

Overall Classification of the Brief is: Unclassified // For Official Use Only

Operation United Assistance


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Calendar for 101st ABN (AASLT) Sep

’144th

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Partners

*OEF TAAC-E

*OEF RC-E

UE15-1

*OEF

PTDO (194 MP Co)

PTDO (501 ASMC)PTDO (212 MED Det, 501 ASMC)

Stand Up Div RearD

CoCC

PTDO (129 CSSB, 372 TC, 584 OD Co)

CoCC101 STBCoCC

129 CSSB COCC

Eagle Talon I

Eagle Talon II

WFX 15-2JRTC 14-09/10

JFE/MRE EXDIR

CoCC

230 SB

WAREX 15-1

108 SB

38 SB2-44 ADA

CoCC716 MPCoCC

CSTX 15-3

CTLT

CTLT

2-44 ADA (-) Deployed OEF

HQ/129CSSB Deployed OEF

JRTC 15-04TAAC

2

Eagle Talon II

WFX 15-2

CoCC

38 ID

WFX 15-3

404 MEB

149 MEB

XCTC16-03

86

WFX Msn Cmd

Seminar

OEF US-NSE

2016

• Division returns from Afghanistan MAR 14

• JUN – 101st CoC (Command Group and staff transition in effect)

• AUG – Staff conducts staff training and MDMP for Decisive Action Warfighter Exercise

(FEB 15)

• Deployment focus was Afghanistan : (Division HQs as the National Support Element;

TAAC as Training And Assistance Command – East)


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Washington Post, 26 September 2014

Road to Ebola

Number of new cases of Ebola virus

disease reported August 31–September

20, 2014

16 SEP – POTUS announces the US

will deploy 3000 troops to support the

Ebola effort

26 SEP - SECDEF approves mission

– 101st Airborne (Assault) designated

for the mission – initial planning

factor - prepare for 10,000 EVD

cases

30 SEP-1 OCT – Fort Campbell

HA/DR Academics Seminar/ LNOs at

USARAF

04 OCT– ADVON deploys to

Monrovia, Liberia

19 OCT – Command Group deploys

to Monrovia and conducts LS/RS w/

USARAF.

25 OCT – JFC-UA TOA

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JFC-UA Area of Responsibility

JFC-UA J33




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JFC-UA Area of Responsibility

JFC-UA J33

Warn-torn nation

Extreme poverty

Low education level

Religion (superstition)

Primitive infrastructure

Weather

Diseases (other than Ebola!)

Powerful private companies

International organizations

Government corruption


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JFC-UA Overview

Operation Unified Response

Haiti, 2010

Operation United Assistance

Liberia, 2014-2015

Closest operational and legal parallel:

2010 DoD deployment in response to Haiti earthquake


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JFC-UA Mission and Intent

Mission: JFC-UA supports the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) in

Liberia to assist the U.S Government’s Foreign Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief

(FHA/DR) efforts to contain the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) IOT prevent EVD from spreading outside

of the region, alleviate human suffering, and promote internal and regional stability. O/O transition

the Joint Force Command (JFC) to designated entities.

Purpose: The purpose of this operation is to support the USG’s EVD response effort to increase

the ability and capacity of the Government of Liberia (GoL) to educate and care for their citizens

and create conditions for the GoL and other stakeholders to assume responsibility for a

sustainable EVD response.

Key Tasks:

•Enforce force health protection measures to prevent US personnel in Liberia from becoming

exposed to EVD and other infectious diseases.

•Train sufficient Health Care Workers to operate Ebola Treatment Units.

•Provide oversight of construction and resupply of up to 19 Ebola Treatment Units.

•Operate Army Labs to conduct blood sample testing to reduce testing result times of EVD samples.

•Transition support activities to designated entities and redeploy.

Endstate: Conditions are set for USG agencies, host nation, or international organizations to

manage Liberian EVD response and to transition all support activities to designated entities.




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JFC-UA Sampling of Legal Issues

Authority for mission

ROE and Weapons

Flight clearances

NATO SOFA

Ebola Concerns

Land Use

Leases

Soldier Discipline

GO 1 and other ad hoc documents

TDS, PTMM, Jurisdiction

Property Disposition

Claims



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Task OrganizationPeak personnel in theater = ~2,549

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USEMB Liberia

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• Joint Force: Army

(from 16

installations), Navy

(82), Marines (115),

Air Force (202)

• JFC Staff = 101st

staff w/ 7 x joint

individual

augmentees

• FORSCOM

allowed us to

deployed as many

HS units as

possible


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Fort Hood

Fort Stewart

Fort Riley

Fort Bliss

Fort Dietrich

Fort Bragg

Fort Gordon

Fort Sam

Houston

Fort Meade

Germany

Italy

USAF/USN/US

MC/DLA

Fort Campbell

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Proving Ground

Task Org by Home StationPeak personnel in theater = ~2,549

As of 22 DEC 14

AFRICOM

USARAF

USEMB Liberia

AFL&LNP

MoH/NEOCC

UNMIL/UNMEER

O/LNOExternal


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JFC-UA Overview

(JFC-UA Common Operating Picture – as of 2 FEB ’15)


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JFC-UA Overview

Composition of Force:

•Peak of 2,549 JFC personnel in theater.

•Army (2,150 from 16 installations), Air Force (202), Marines (115), Navy (82).

•JFC Staff – 101st staff with 7 joint individual augmentees.

•Non-JFC personnel in-theater:

•Operation Onward Liberty (preexisting mission to train Armed Forces of Liberia).

•United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (Lead Federal Agency).

•United States Public Health Service (USPHS).

•Center for Disease Control (CDC).

•Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

•Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

•Contingency contracting personnel.

Controlled Monitoring:

•29 OCT 2014: SECDEF Memo orders Service Secretaries to submit plan for controlled monitoring.

•07 NOV 2014: CJCSI 4220.01 requires all military members deployed to an Ebola Outbreak Area to undergo

21 days of post-deployment controlled monitoring (updated 19 DEC 2014 by CJCSI 42201.01A).

JFC-UA Firsts:

•First Joint Force Command established in West Africa.

•First large-scale DoD deployment in response to a disease.

•First time 101st Airborne colors have been in Africa.

•First large-scale controlled monitoring of redeploying DoD personnel.


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Unity Of Effort

US Joint Forces

Multinational

Forces

Intergovernmental

Organizations

Private Sector and

Others

Nongovernmental

Organizations

US Government

Departments &

Agencies

Unified

Action

UNMEER

UNICEF

UNMIL

WFP

WHO

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Legal Asset Management

SJACOL Susan Arnold

CPT Hockenberry

CPT Osterhage

CPT Maigret

SSG Murdock

Fiscal Law OP/ADLAW M. Justice Legal Ass. Claims

CPT Hockenberry

FCC

MAJ Halverson

DSJAMAJ Halverson

NCOICSFC Buck

BJAMAJ Petty

BJAMAJ Bochat

CPT Harrison

CPT Harrison

FCC

SFC Buck

Pay Agent

MAJ Bochat

FCC

CPT Maigret

CPT Resposo

CPT Hockenberry

PTMM

SPC Greene

SPC Garrett

CPT Osterhage

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05/17/15

Typical Bridge and Rainy Season Road

Claims

MissionsLand Use

Lease/Contract


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Fiscal / Contract Law

(OUA Related Properties in Buchanan Area Footprint – NOV ’15)


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Operational / Administrative Law

General Order Number One

Tactical Directive

Weapons Policy

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Claims

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U.S. Navy Single Service Claims Responsibility:

• Claims mission supervised by U.S. Navy Claims Personnel – Regional Legal Services Office (RLSO),

Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia.

• DoDi 5515.08, Assignment of Claims Responsibility, supplemented by DoD General Counsel

Memorandum.

• JFC Judge Advocates appointed as Navy Foreign Claims Commissions (FCC).

• Navy RLSO appoints after concurrence from U.S. Army Claims Service.

• JFC-UA was only standing FCC on continent of Africa.

• Claims processed under Navy Regulations (JAG Manual, Chapter VIII).

• Navy’s regulations significantly less voluminous than Army’s (AR 27-20 and DA PAM 27-162).

Claims


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JFC-UA Overview

(Completed Ebola Treatment Unit)


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Questions

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