Week 5 - Seven Principles of ICS
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The Seven Principles of ICS:
1.
Standardization
2.
Functional Specificity
3.
Manageable Span of Control
4.
Unit Integrity
5.
Unified Command
6.
Management by Objectives
7.
Comprehensive Resource Management
Select one of the seven principles of Incident Command System (ICS) and describe a personal/professional incident. How was the principle was applied to your experience
?
What were the results?
Week 5 – Seven Principles of ICS–
Hello Class and Dr. Vives,
I chose to cover the seventh principle, Comprehensive Resource Management, as I always believe you can’t do the job at hand without having the proper equipment readily available and in working order. Comprehensive Resource Management include personal, equipment, teams, supplies, and facilities available or potentially available for assignment or allocation. Maintaining an accurate and up-to-date inventory of resources is an essential component of incident management.
During my Air Force career, I worked within two different mobile communication squadrons where I provided primary/emergency power production. Even though every aspect in the military will show you need to have resources and a proper inventory, when I showed up to my Combat COMM unit in Oklahoma where I was the boss the first year in, they did not know the meaning of preparedness at all. I was pulled from a field exercise to go prep my equipment for Hurricane Ike and only had 24-hrs to get everything ready, which was part of my pack time of my personal gear and get sleep as we were loading everything onto 5-ton military trucks and driving from Oklahoma City, OK to Lackland AFFB, San Antonio, TX for a staging area. If things were packed and inventoried as they are supposed to be for every 24/48/72 deployment kit
on-hand I would not have used certain language that evening. I found that I had no real up-to-
date test equipment or supplies for generator repairs and I had to search for large enough mobility crates to haul my items and the Communications team that were supposed to have half of my equipment on their inventory sheets did not either. I worked till late night until my Captain told me I had to leave and go home. Without my packing experience and knowledge of what was needed we would have been stranded, as one of our military trucks stalled at a truck stop, but I had packed a jumper cable specific to generators and military trucks where we didn’t need to wait three extra hours for a vehicle maintenance crew from OKC. I already knew of our other deployment packages that were lacking of equipment and I was updating, but I learned I had to go check my counterparts’ inventories also.
V/r,
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