ADVON

MPT Advanced Echelon – deployed following RECON to establish the infrastructure for the response efforts

Agency Liason

MPT role which coordinates with partner organizations and external agencies.

ARC

Beer Flag

Flag, sometimes virtual, raised to signal completion of the day’s chores, and start of relaxation and refreshments

BLS

BlueJeans

A PC/MAC/Linux/Mobile video conferencing platform

Cold Zone

Uncontaminated area. Home owners and taper/timer stay in cold zone.

Decon

De-contamination

Demob

De-mobilization

DHSEM

Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Driver

A TR member who gets to FOB via a car, truck, van

EoD

End of Day

F/A

First Aid

Flyer

A TR member who gets to FOB via airplane flght

FOB

Forward Operating Base

FSC

Finances Section Chief

GSD

Get Shit Done. One of the TR guiding principles

Hazmat

Hazardous Materials

HOR

Home Of Record (where a Greyshirt lives normally)

Hot zone

Area around a destroyed home, possibly including septic tank area, considered contaminated due to combustion products and impact of intense heat

IAP

Incident Action Plan, prepared for every operational period

IC

Incident Commander – top leader in ICS model

ICP

Incident Command Post. Master control room/tent for ICS operations

ICS

Incident Command System

ICS forms

See listings following this chart

Information coordinator

MPT member responsible for organizing incoming information from the RECON team. Facilitates situational awareness and sources any supporting documents like maps and imagery.

ISR

MPT: Initial Situation Report which drives TR response

ITDRC

Some partner organization. Communications?

LSC

Logistics Section Chief

MCC

MPT

Mission Planning Team

MPT team Leader

oversees the whole process, crafts the mission statement, and determines the overall concept of the operation to be undertaken. He or she also ensures that the planning materials and documents support the stated goals and concept of the operation.

NOC

National Operations Center ??

NRG

Some partner organization

Op(s)

Operation(s)

OPORD

MPT: Operations Order. MPT will define a concept of operations, determine the support and sustainment concept, and identify task force leadership, to be condensed into an OPORD

OSC

Operations Section Chief

Palantir

A software system, perhaps no longer used?

PCS

Planning Section Chief

PEX

A credit card system used by TR

POC

Point Of Contact

POV

Personally Owned Vehicle ??

PPE

Personal Protective Equipment

Recon Team

MPT Reconnaissance team provides situational awareness and information updates to rest of MPT from the field

Resource Coordinator

MPT member who provides information on resource considerations for the deployment, resupply, and demob of the operation. Includes: medical/safety, facilities, maintenance, transportation

Sawyer

A person who uses a saw

SITL

Some C & S role?

SitRep

Situation Report

SO

Safety Officer. Member of Command staff tasked with overseeing overall safety

STL

Strike Team Leader

SVI

Social Vulnerability Index

TFLD

Task Force Leader

ToolBank

Some partner organization

TR-NO

Team Rubicon National Operations

Type n

A kind of TR response. Smaller numbers are more major responses

Tyvek

The plastic material that TR Hazmat suits are made of

VOAD

Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster

Warm Zone

Small area adjacent to hot zone where sifters take breaks and get new supplies

WARNO

Warning Order. the vessel to assemble the MPT and activate Membership's deployment notices to members based on certain parameters (how many members, what specialties are needed, etc.)

Workforce

Computer system used to track the work orders that drive TR operations