Rock Solid Warrior Published Jan. 4, 2008 387th Expeditionary Mission Support Squadron SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brannan NCO in charge of readiness and emergency management Home unit/base: Headquarters, United States Air Forces in Europe, Ramstein Air Base, Germany How do you support the mission here? I provide emergency and disaster response capabilities for approximately 600 servicemembers. I'm the Air Force's incident management system installation control center manager, guiding senior leadership and commanders through emergency response checklists. Additionally, I provide nuclear, biological, chemical assessment and deterrent capabilities. How many times have you deployed and what makes this one unique? I've deployed four times. What makes this one different and exciting is we are only the second rotation at this location. The readiness and emergency management office has built a $253,000 detection and survival equipment account, established a 193-page installation emergency response plan and created an Air Force Information Management System compliant installation control center. How does your job differ in a deployed environment versus home base? When we are at home base, we're primarily focused on training the base populace on a variety of subjects, most commonly chemical warfare defense. However, when we deploy, our career field shifts gears into a weapon of mass destruction assessment and countermeasure role and emergency command and control management. When I deploy, it's a chance for me to apply my wartime skills and ethos; it's where the "rubber meets the road."