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  National Guard forces for direct support of civilian law enforcement as a temporary expedient in accordance
  with state laws.
  PROVIDE OTHER DESIGNATED DOMESTIC SUPPORT
  B-17. Providing other designated domestic support encompasses preplanned, routine, and periodic support
  not related to disasters or emergencies. Often, this is support to major public events and consists of
  participatory support, special transportation, and additional security. Examples are national special security
  events such as Olympics, inaugurations, or state funerals. Some missions may involve designated support
  requested by a federal or state agency to augment its capabilities due to labor shortages or a sudden increase
  in demands. Such support may extend to augmentation of critical government services by Soldiers, as
  authorized by the President and directed by the Secretary of Defense. For example, skilled Soldiers replaced
  striking air controllers in the Federal Aviation Administration until newly hired civilians completed training.
  Soldiers have moved coal during strikes or even operated key commercial enterprises when national security
  considerations justified such extreme action.
  DEFENSE SUPPORT OF CIVIL AUTHORITIES CONSIDERATIONS
  B-18. Commanders, supported by their staffs, use the operations process to drive the conceptual and detailed
  planning necessary to understand, visualize, and describe their operational environment; make and articulate
  decisions; and direct, lead, and assess military operations. The activities of the operations process are not
  discrete; they overlap and recur as circumstances demand. Planning starts an iteration of the operations
  process. Upon completion of the initial order, planning continues as leaders revise the plan based on changing
  circumstances. Preparing begins during planning and continues through execution. Execution puts a plan into
  action by applying combat power to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain a position of relative
  advantage. Assessing is continuous and influences the other three activities. This section uses the operations
  process activities (plan, prepare, execute, and assess) to discuss considerations that are important to the MEB
  in conducting DSCA.
  PLAN
  B-19. The MEB uses Army planning procedures for DSCA, but must be able to participate and integrate its
  planning with federal, state, tribal, or local levels as discussed in the following section. Soldiers receive their
  orders in an Army format, but these orders must be consistent with the overall shared objectives for the
  response. These orders are aligned with the specific guidance that other on-the-ground responders from other
  civilian and military organizations are receiving. Soldiers exercise individual initiative to establish and
  maintain communication at all levels. Based on the type of support provided, MEB leaders, staffs, and
  Soldiers need to be familiar (to varying degrees) with the terminology, doctrine, and procedures that are used
  by first responders to ensure the effective integration of Army personnel and equipment. This ensures that
  citizens who are affected by the disaster receive the best care and service possible.
  B-20. When the MEB conducts DSCA tasks, a lead federal or state government agency has the overall
  responsibility depending on the MEB status as a 10 USC or 32 USC Title 10 or Title 32 organizations. The
  MEB status as a state or federal asset will determine which documents it should use as legal authorities when
  conducting operations. If the MEB is a state asset, it reports to the state National Guard chain of command.
  If the MEB is a 10 USC asset (Regular Army), it reports to its federal chain of command.
  Note. The military chain of command is not violated while the MEB supports the lead federal
  agency to assist citizens who are affected by a disaster.