Chapter II - Domestic CBRN CM (2) Roles, Responsibilities, Authorities, and Assets: (D) DOD Roles and Responsibilities: (10) Defense Coordinating Officer (DCO),USARNORTH: CDRUSARNORTH appoints a DCO to each of the 10 FEMA regions to serve as DOD's single point of contact at a JFO. A DCO may be the first DOD representative on-site and acts as the single DOD point of contact. The DCO is the designated DOD on-scene member of the FEMA-led JFO, the multi-agency coordination center established locally for federal response related prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery actions. The DCO, supported by a defense coordinating element (DCE), coordinates all RFAs and approved mission assignments with the principal federal official (PFO), federal coordinating officer (FCO), or designated representative from the NRF primary and coordinating agencies. If a JTF is established and colocated with the PFO at the JFO, this colocation does not replace the requirement for a DCO and DCE as part of the JFO coordination staff. The DCO continues to exercise the JFO staff function of mission assignment coordination and validation and acts as a liaison between the JFO staff and the JTF staff. (11) USPACOM Subordinate Units: Joint Task Force-Homeland Defense (JTFHD) is CDRUSPACOM's HD and DSCA headquarters. The Commander, US Army Pacific, serves as the Commander, JTF-HD. JTF-HD, when directed, conducts CBRN response in support of civil authorities to mitigate the effects of deliberate and inadvertent CBRN and bulk HE incidents in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and US territories and insular areas within its JOA. The JTF-HD establishes C2 of designated DOD forces within the JOA and provides DSCA to save lives, prevent injury, and provide temporary critical life support. Although it may require augmentation, many of the JTF capabilities, subject matter experts, and resources are already within US Army Pacific. JTF-HD works with state, territorial, and military organizations to ensure response across a large AOR. Because of the vast geographical distances within the Pacific, each territory and base has plans to respond to a variety of threats with forces in place, since any external forces have to come by air or sealift. The USPACOM CBRN CM plan includes flexible task organizations of multiple services, components, and capabilities. (12) Military Services: Department of Defense Directive (DODD) 2060.02, Department of Defense (DOD) Combating WMD Policy, directs the Services to organize, train, and equip to support the CWMD mission areas. Each Service has some capability (based on its available assets and doctrine) to conduct or support CBRN CM. These capabilities may be called upon, when approved by SecDef, to provide forces, facilities, and assets to the supported CCDR as part of the DOD response to a CBRN incident. Specifically, the Service Chief responsibilities are as follows: (a) Provide the Joint Staff J-3 with information on assigned CBRN response capabilities, assets, units, and research or support facilities that are capable of providing reachback or on-scene support to CBRN CM operations. (b) Identify units available to the supported CCDR consistent with Title 10, USC. (c) Provide designated forces, to include RC forces, in order to prepare for and respond to a CBRN situation and assistance to the supported CCDR through the appropriate Service component commanders. (13) US Marine Corps Chemical-Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF): CBIRF is a unit that was created to deploy on short notice in response to CBRN incidents. CBIRF consists of specially trained personnel and specialized equipment suited for operations in a wide range of contingencies. CBIRF is designed to minimize the effects of a CBRN incident through detection, identification, extraction, mass decontamination, medical triage, and emergency medical support