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204:(IMT) - Provides the field management component of the Federal public health and medical response. The IRCT provides liaisons in the field to coordinate with jurisdictional, Tribal, or State incident management and provides the field management and coordination for deployed HHS and other ESF #8 assets to integrate those assets with the State and local response.
164:(DMORT) - provides forensic analysis of human remains in order to identify victims following a disaster or major transportation incident. Eleven of these teams, which consist of private citizens with specialized training and experience to help in the recovery, identification and processing of deceased victims, including one team with WMD capabilities.
196:(TCCT), known as International Medical Surgical Response Team (IMSuRT) prior to 2017 - widely recognized as a specialized team, trained and equipped to establish a fully capable field surgical facility anywhere in the world. TCCTs provide critical, surgical, and emergency care to help people in the wake of disaster or emergency.
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management services following major transportation disasters. Although NDMS is primarily a domestic disaster response capability, NDMS teams and personnel have also been deployed to disasters internationally, such as in Iran and Haiti following devastating earthquakes.
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