Chapter 20
Operating as Part of the H&DR Logistics Team
IN THIS CHAPTER
Deploying your assets
Supporting humanitarian and disaster relief (H&DR) logistics operations
Wrapping up your mission
You’ve made the corporate commitment to provide a logistics disaster relief team and have an assignment — now the hard work begins!
In this chapter we discuss the steps to take in the various phases of the deployment, operations, and redeployment of your team and its equipment.
Deploying Your Humanitarian & Disaster Relief (H&DR) Logistics Team
Your team is ready to depart. Before it goes, make sure you’ve taken care of the following:
- The team’s mission assignment has been updated to reflect changed conditions in the affected country.
- You’ve matched personnel and equipment to the mission.
- You’ve finalized your plans for getting your personnel and equipment to the affected country.
Updating your mission assignment and equipment list
When you first made the corporate commitment to provide a logistics relief team, you likely establised teaming agreements with one or more relief agency partners. These agreements included a general scope of work that listed the categories of work you may be asked to ...
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