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the intent today was to put people in a ,

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in as much of a reward situation as you

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can in training where there had been a

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large scale exposure due to a traumatic

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event with people that were both

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injured and exposed to organophosphate

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chemical agent that's gonna have

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tremendous effects on the body .

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The guard's role in today's event

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started a while back . One of the

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briefers on day one said during a

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incident of like mass casualties or

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mass destruction that impacts the state

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is the worst time to learn about each

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other . We are the state of Oklahoma's

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Homeland security disaster response to

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no one agency has the resources to

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handle everything that they're going to

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face in a large scale incident . But

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together we do and those resources are

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coming to bear with one organized

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training system , one common voice and

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one set of policies , procedures and

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guidelines . That's what the rims team

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does . It takes agencies from all over

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the state . It puts them together , it

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trains them together , it teaches them

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how to respond together . So when we

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get deployed , which in the last 15

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years the rims team have been at any

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large scale event that's ever happened

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in Oklahoma . You've had a rims ,

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There's multiple rims across the state

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of Oklahoma and they do really well

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working internally . What we don't have

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a lot of opportunities to do is to

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bring them all together to work

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together to include the 63rd CST .

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Because we are a state asset . You know ,

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63rd CST is very much so an asset to

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the state . The civil support team is

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now standing organization that I've

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been very fortunate to be a part of for

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quite some time . And within that ,

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it's always a real privilege to be able

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to go out and interact with the

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communities that members of the civil

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support team actually come from . We

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have the ability to help the people who

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helped raise us . So those are

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indescribable feeling to be able to

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know that these are the people who are

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going to be treating the ones that we

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actually care about as the deputy state

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surgeon . Like it's not just about the

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medical assets that we have in the

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military , it's also those that are

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statewide . How can we utilize those or

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incorporate those to , you know ,

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improve or strengthen our own medical

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capabilities for when the time comes

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that we must call upon those .