HOPE EVERYONE IS DOING WELL. THE DMORT REGION 9 COMMAND STAFF JUST RETURNED FROM A VERY PRODUCTIVE TWO DAY MEETING. ONE OF THE CONCERN AREAS IS OUR COMPLETION OF THE MANDATORY ON LINE TRAINING SESSIONS.
 
THE COMPLETED SESSIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR ALL TEAM MEMBERS AND MONITORED BY DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. A REVIEW OF EACH TEAM MEMBERS COMPLETION STATUS WILL BE REVIEWED PRIOR TO ANY ALERT OR ACTIVATION NOTICE.
 
THE SESSIONS ARE:
 
DMORT TRAINING
DMAT BASIC TRAINING
EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO TERRORISM
 
TO GET INTO THE FIRST TWO SESSIONS, YOU MAY LOG ONTO WWW.DMORT.ORG THEN CLICK ON "ONLINE TRAINING" AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS.
 
FOR THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO TERRORISM, LOG ONTO WWW.TRAINING.FEMA.GOV  SELECT NETC VIRTUAL CAMPUS. IF YOU HAVE NEVER LOGGED ON, CLICK ON NEW STUDENT. (CREATE PASSWORD) AND FOLLOW PROCEDURES.   UPON COMPLETION OF EXAM, YOU MUST SUBMIT A COMPLETED FORM 75-5 TO RECEIVE CERTIFICATE FOR THE COURSE. ONCE YOU RECEIVE THE CERTIFICATE, PLEASE MAIL OR FAX A COPY TO BARBARA SALAZAR FOR YOUR DMORT FILE.
 
THANK YOU TO EACH OF YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR ASSISTANCE CONCERNING THIS IMPORTANT MATTER AND PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
 
ROBERT VIGIL
DEPUTY COMMANDER
June 8, 2004
 

Region IX'ers

On Dec 12, 2002, President Bush signed into law HR 3448 The Bioterrorism Preparedness Act of 2001. This Act also added NDMS (DMORT) Personnel to the protections provided the National Guard and Reserve insofar as they relate to absense from duty, reemployment rights and workers compensation as a result of injury or death during deployments (whether compensated or uncompensated) for both training and emergency response.

The specific DMORT provisions are enumerated in pages 13-16 of this PDF
file.

You may want to discuss this with your employer. Also, we will always send official requests for absence or official orders for deployment from the Command Staff, NDMS Headquarters to your employer requesting any absence from work. We appreciate their support of this critical program. Hope this finds you all happy and healthy.

Sincere Regards,
John Linstrom

http://www.counterterrorism.org/pdf/bioterrorismpreparednessact2001.pdf