Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) FY12 Project Descriptions

Civil-military IRT projects enhance unit training and readiness while filling a community need.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO UNDERSERVED NATIVE POPULATIONS:

Summary:  Joint/multi Service medical/dental/veterinary/optometry support to a variety of underserved Native American populations and communities located in remote areas throughout the United States and US territories.

 

ARCTIC CARE - An Army National Guard led joint (including USAR, USN) and interagency medical, dental and veterinary winter event is the largest recurring joint medical readiness and logistics training exercise, providing humanitarian assistance to underserved American Indians and Alaska Natives. For FY12, training is scheduled to support the underserved in the Nome, AK region.

EAST BAY STAND DOWN - The Army Reserve will lead a medical mission and interagency summer training event that occurs every other year in the San Francisco Bay, California area to provide medical, dental and optometry care to homeless veterans.

FT BELKNAP - Medical training event that will be conducted by the Army Reserve to provide medical, dental, and pharmaceutical assistance in Montana.

FT BERTHOLD - Medical training event that will be conducted by the Army Reserve at New Town, North Dakota. The military will provide medical, dental, and pharmaceutical assistance to residents of the area.

SELMA - Medical training project conducted by the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and Navy Reserve to provide medical, dental, and pharmaceutical assistance to residents of Selma, Alabama, Demopolis, Alabama and Hayneville, Alabama.

TROPIC CARE - Medical outreach event, to include dental, optometry, and medical care conducted by the Air National Guard as lead Service, with support from Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, and Army Reserve at three locations on Kauai, Hawaii. Medically underserved communities are the focus of the training mission.

ROUND VALLEY - Army National Guard medical training event to provide medical care to the community of Round Valley, California

LONESTAR - A medical training event located along the Texas Mexican border, led by the Army National Guard. Medical and dental care will be provided to local underserved communities.

 

ENGINEERING SUPPORT:

Summary: Joint/multi Service medical/dental/veterinary/optometry support to a variety of underserved Native American populations and communities located in remote areas throughout the United States and US territories.

Summary:  Joint/multi Service vertical and horizontal engineering support to underserved communities.   

 

METARVIK - The Marine Corps Reserve, acting as lead service, in coordination with the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve, and Navy will assist the village of Newtok, Alaska in building a shelter and a pioneer road at a new village site, Metarvik, Alaska.

ST MICHAEL’S - The Air National Guard along with the Navy Reserve and Army Reserve will conduct engineering training at St. Michaels Association for Special Education located near Window Rock, Arizona. The project will improve roads and drainage and improve water lines.

RIVERSIDE ACADEMY - An Air Force Reserve training event to develop infrastructure and improve various buildings on the school property near Nashville Tennessee.

BLACK HILLS FOREST - An Army National Guard training event to improve roads in the Black Hills Forest, South Dakota.

BOY SCOUT SUMMIT - A joint engineering training event led by the Air National Guard with support from the Navy Reserve, Army Reserve, Army National Guard and Marine Corps Reserve. This event will develop an egress road, helipad, and various vertical buildings. The site is the future home of the Boy Scout Jamboree located near Mt Hope West Virginia.

DETROIT PIETY ISLAND CHANNEL - The Army National Guard will dredge a channel in Oregon.

CUSTER STATE PARK - Engineering training event conducted by the Army National Guard. The project will train soldiers in road construction, clearing and grubbing for the State Park located in South Dakota.

FOOTPRINT - Engineering/ Infrastructure training project that will be conducted by the Air Force Reserve at Gallup, New Mexico, in support of the Southwest Indian Foundation. The military will construct modular housing in a warehouse environment for placement later on the Navajo Reservation.

DIVE AND/OR TRANSPORTATION SUPPORT

Summary:  Joint/multi Service diving and transportation support to underserved communities.   

 

REEF-EX - The Army National Guard will de-militarize surplus army vehicles and other equipment to create a hard bottom habitat for fish as an artificial reef off the coast of South Carolina.

9 HEALTH FAIR - Medical training event to be conducted by the Army and Air National Guard at various locations throughout Colorado during the summer. The Guard will assist in delivering medical equipment and supplies to various health fair locations.