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Department of Defense Installations Supporting Defense Support of Civil Authorities G-3 (7) BSI responsibilities rest with the senior commander for the installation relying on the installation staff and tenant units via established host-tenant agreements, MOAs/MOUs, and Service ADCON of tenant units. b. Incident Support Base (1) Supporting one or more non-DOD federal departments or agencies as a logistics staging facility for a DSCA response. (2) The normally requested installation support as an incident support base includes covered warehouse space and secure (fenced) hard stand parking areas where commercial semi-trailers loaded with commodities can be staged prior to being directed forward to supply state staging facilities, shelters, or PODs. The incident support base may also be requested to provide airfield facilities to accept the arrival of federal-owned commodities and trans-load from aircraft to truck for further shipment. Material handling equipment is a necessity for any incident support base support mission. 5. Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration a. General. JRSOI for DSCA operations is characterized by three overarching principles: unity of effort, synchronization, and balance of unit flow into the operational area in support of DSCA. While sharing many similarities of conventional JRSOI operations as described in JP 3-35, Deployment and Redeployment Operations, the CJTF must plan for some unique considerations when responding to DSCA missions. (1) The JTF headquarters will most likely have to perform JRSOI functions primarily with internal resources and assistance from the designated BSI. (2) Responding DOD units may not necessarily flow into the operational area through designated PODs when responding to catastrophic events. Units may have to stage and move directly from their home station installations to the operational area or may have to use one or more intermediate staging bases to coordinate flow of support. Intermediate staging bases provide flexibility to a response event by enabling the staging and configuration of assets in an area outside of the immediate event zone. Multiple lines of communications may be used by units responding to DSCA operations. (3) Deploying forces will undergo some form of reception, staging, onward movement, and integration. The JTF must have a well-planned and carefully managed process that has a robust command, control, and communications infrastructure that is able to effectively manage the dynamic flow of prepared and ready forces into the operational area. Critical to effectively managing the flow is the establishment of a consolidated movement control section within the JTF with responsibility for analyzing forces and support in the area, to include non-DOD entities, and making recommendations to the event commander on priority of movement within the event area. b. Reception operations include all those functions required to receive and clear unit personnel, equipment, and materiel through the POD. During reception operations, it is essential the JTF control and coordinate the deployment flow. A dedicated movement