Operation Lone Star is an annual joint military and civil humanitarian medical mission that takes place along the Texas-Mexico border. The purpose of this collaborative effort is to conduct Medical-Innovative Readiness Training exercises while simultaneously providing free medical services to residents across the Rio Grande Valley

NOTICE

Beginning in 2008, headquarters requires that all Medical Brigade personnel must complete Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Independent Study Program (ISP) course courses 100, 200, 700, and 800 to be eligible to participate in Operation Lone Star. Personnel will be required to furnish an official FEMA EMI ISP transcript (not the Student Record).

There is no cost in completing these courses.

(Many of you may have already taken these courses as part of your MEMS qualification.)

The required course titles are:

IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command System
IS-200  Basic Incident Command System
IS-700  National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction
IS-800  National Response Plan (NRP), An Introduction

Links:

• FEMA EMI Independent Study Program Course List
• IS-100 http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is100.asp
• IS-200 http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is200.asp
• IS-700 http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is700.asp
• IS-800 http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is800a.asp
• Transcript Request Form http://training.fema.gov/IS/