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Sgt. Maj. Ronald L. Green, the 18th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, poses with Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) Corporals Course participants during Green’s tour of Raymond M. Downey Responder Training Facility, Naval Annex Stump Head, Md., Feb. 18, 2016.Green visited the Marines, sailors and civilians with CBIRF at Naval Support Facility Indian Head and Raymond M. Downey Responder Training Facility.During Green’s visit, he received a CBIRF brief given by the CBIRF Commanding Officer, Col. Stephen E. Redifer, viewed a static display of an Initial Response Force set-up, talked to CBIRF personnel, toured the Downey Responder Training Facility and had lunch with CBIRF staff noncommissioned officers. When directed, CBIRF forward-deploys and/or responds with minimal warning to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) threat or event in order to assist local, state, or federal agencies and the geographic combatant commanders in the conduct of CBRNE response or consequence management operations, providing capabilities for command and control; agent detection and identification; search, rescue, and decontamination; and emergency medical care for contaminated personnel. (Official USMC Photo by Sgt. Santiago G. Colon Jr./RELEASED) - Sgt. Maj. Ronald L. Green, the 18th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, poses with Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) Corporals Course participants during Green’s tour of Raymond M. Downey Responder Training Facility, Naval Annex Stump Head, Md., Feb. 18, 2016. Green visited the Marines, sailors and civilians with CBIRF at Naval Support Facility Indian Head and Raymond M. Downey Responder Training Facility. During Green’s visit, he received a CBIRF brief given by the CBIRF Commanding Officer, Col. Stephen E. Redifer, viewed a static display of an Initial Response Force set-up, talked to CBIRF personnel, toured the Downey Responder Training Facility and had lunch with CBIRF staff noncommissioned officers. When directed, CBIRF forward-deploys and/or responds with minimal warning to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) threat or event in order to assist local, state, or federal agencies and the geographic combatant commanders in the conduct of CBRNE response or consequence management operations, providing capabilities for command and control; agent detection and identification; search, rescue, and decontamination; and emergency medical care for contaminated personnel. (Official USMC Photo by Sgt. Santiago G. Colon Jr./RELEASED)

Marines from the Search and Extraction Platoon carried out a civilian role player with a crushed pelvis inside a subway station where a train had derailed during the 36-hour continuous operation as part of Exercise Scarlet Response 2015 at Guardian Centers in Perry, Georgia, July 23. The Search and Extraction Platoon is the second team to go into a building after the primary assessment team, who gathers the first wave of intelligence that will be used to define the manner in which the mission will be accomplished. They search and extract victims that can’t move or are seriously injured. - Marines from the Search and Extraction Platoon carried out a civilian role player with a crushed pelvis inside a subway station where a train had derailed during the 36-hour continuous operation as part of Exercise Scarlet Response 2015 at Guardian Centers in Perry, Georgia, July 23. The Search and Extraction Platoon is the second team to go into a building after the primary assessment team, who gathers the first wave of intelligence that will be used to define the manner in which the mission will be accomplished. They search and extract victims that can’t move or are seriously injured.

Sergeant Austen Clark, the hot zone controller for the Search and Extraction Platoon, helps one of his Marines fasten and secure his gas mask before completing the final exercise of the afternoon during Exercise Scarlet Response 2015 at Guardian Centers in Perry, Georgia, July 21. The hot zone is the area where an incident occurs. Clark makes sure he keeps accountability of everything that goes on when his Marines go in and search a building, such as their gear, if there are any casualties inside or if there are any further issues besides what they already know. - Sergeant Austen Clark, the hot zone controller for the Search and Extraction Platoon, helps one of his Marines fasten and secure his gas mask before completing the final exercise of the afternoon during Exercise Scarlet Response 2015 at Guardian Centers in Perry, Georgia, July 21. The hot zone is the area where an incident occurs. Clark makes sure he keeps accountability of everything that goes on when his Marines go in and search a building, such as their gear, if there are any casualties inside or if there are any further issues besides what they already know.

Marines from the decontamination platoon put a child pretending to be injured on a backboard during Exercise Silent Ghost outside St. Elizabeths East hospital in Washington, D.C. April 7, 2015. The exercise was a simulated chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosive incident. - Marines from the decontamination platoon put a child pretending to be injured on a backboard during Exercise Silent Ghost outside St. Elizabeths East hospital in Washington, D.C. April 7, 2015. The exercise was a simulated chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosive incident.

Capt. Mark Cumashot refreshes tying knots with Marines and sailors with Technical Rescue Platoon, Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, Feb. 3, at Henrico Fire Drill Facility in Glen Allen, Virginia. Cumashot is the team leader of the Technical Rescue Team, Henrico County Division of Fire. - Capt. Mark Cumashot refreshes tying knots with Marines and sailors with Technical Rescue Platoon, Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, Feb. 3, at Henrico Fire Drill Facility in Glen Allen, Virginia. Cumashot is the team leader of the Technical Rescue Team, Henrico County Division of Fire.