2008 Annual Report - West Virginia Army National Guard - U.S. Army

West Virginia National Guard Annual Report 2008
West Virginia National Guard
Homeland Defense Joint Task Force
The West Virginia Homeland Defense
Joint Task Force encompasses:
• National Guard Joint Interagency
Training and Education Center
• Homeland Defense
• Critical Infrastructure Protection Mission
Assurance Analysis
• Counterdrug Civil Support Team
• CBRNE Enhanced Response Force
• Camp Dawson
• Memorial Tunnel
The Joint Interagency Training and
Education Center (JITEC) is a National Guard
Bureau capability, providing training and
operational support CBRNE in
emergency response, critical
infrastructure protection and
mission assurance, continuity
of operations and continuity of
government.
JITEC was established
as a result of increased
involvement by the National
Guard in the Global War on
Terrorism (GWOT). Carrying
out the vision of jointness held
by the Chief, National Guard Bureau,
Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum, and
Major General Allen E. Tackett. JITEC
is staffed by members of the Army and
Air National Guard.
The JITEC is a one-of-a -kind
operational training capability for the
nation. It has three locations: Camp
Dawson as the main campus, a command
element located in St. Albans in western
Kanawha County, the Center for National
Response Training Center (Memorial Tunnel)
in southeastern Kanawha County.
JITEC provides homeland defense and
GWOT training for the active component,
National Guard and reserve forces as well as
federal, state and local agencies throughout
the United States. It also provides operational
support to the U. S.
department of Homeland
Security, the Assistant
Secretary of Defense
for Homeland Defense
and Defense Contract
Management Agency’s
mission assurance
program.
JITEC/WVNG
Homeland Defense
Joint Task Force personnel
regularly conduct mission
assurance assessments of
critical energy and defense
assets throughout the nation.
They are also called on to
support special security
events in the national capitol
region and throughout
the nation. These events
include the state of the
union address, presidential inauguration and the
national political conventions.
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