fiery vigil

Terminal Learning Objective

• Action: Large Scale Evacuation

• Condition: Given a classroom environment

• Standard: Learn the events during a natural disaster

Safety Consideration

• Fire Exit’s

• Assembly Area

• Head Count

Risk Assessment Level

LOW

Environmental Considerations

Silence all noise making electronics and dispose of your

waste appropriately.

Evaluation

You will be questioned

Instructional Lead-in

During the last lecture you learned the proper application of a contraceptive, during this

block you will learn the devastation of a natural

disaster.

Enabling Learning Objective

• Action: Operation Fiery Vigil

• Condition: Given a classroom environment

• Standard: Evaluate the events that forced the closure of two U.S. bases.

FIERY VIGILNON COMBATANTS EVACUATION

OPERATION (NEO)

JUNE 10, 1991

BYSGT BEST

EVACUATIONEVACUATIONOFOF

CLARK AIR FORCE CLARK AIR FORCE & SUBIC NAVAL BASE& SUBIC NAVAL BASE

In June 1991 Mt. Pinatubo Erupted several times

larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington.

Introduction

The Giant Awakens

The giant awakens and the skies darken as the ash and soot fell down on the tropical

island of the Republic of the Philippines. The volcano now a ticking time bomb has come to life once again and the residents of Clark Air

base and Subic bay Naval Station worried about their fate.

As flaming pebbles and lava begin to devastate the countryside, emergency

response teams dispatched and make repairs on a satellite to transmit real-time data about

the volcano.Typhoon Yunya Bering down on the tropical

island. With this medley of disasters looming, Mission Control scramble to assemble a team of specialists to assist the island residents.

AGENDA• HISTORY OF CLARK AIR

BASE & SUBIC BAY NAVAL STATION

• NEO OPPERATION FIERY VIGIL

• UNITS INVOLVED • EVACUATION• CONCLUTION• QUESTIONS

Non Combatants Evacuation Operation

(NEO)

• Relocate threatened civilians and noncombatants for location in a foreign country or host nation.

HISTORY OFCLARK AIR FORCE BASE

• 1902 TO 1903 THE US ARMY SET UP POST IN FERTIL PLAIN ON WHAT WAS LATER CALLED CLARK AIR BASE. PRESIDENT ROSEVELT SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON SEPTEMBER 1 ESTABLISHING 7700 ACRESS CENTERED ON CLARK AIR BASE.

• 1941 THE JAPANES LUNCHED AN ATTACK ON CLARK AIR BASE. CLARK WAS EVACUATED.

• 1945 ON JANUARY 31 AMERICAN FORCES REGAINED POSESION OF CLARK AIR BASE

• 1947 U.S. AND THE PHILLIPPINES SIGNS THE MILITARY BASE AGREEMENT GUARANTED AMERICAN POSSESSION OF U.S BASES IN THE PHILLIPPINES FOR 99 YEARS.

• 1964 CLARK AIR BASE ENTERED VIETNAM• 1975 CLARK AIR BASE SERVES AS A STAGING POINT FOR

VIETNAMESE FLEEING NORTH VIETNAM.• 1991 OPERATION FIERY VIGIL.• 1997 THE LAST U.S FORCES LEFT THE PHILLIPPINES.

SOUTH WESTERN POINT OF THE PHILLIPPINES

HISTORY OFSUBIC BAY NAVAL STATION

• 1900 PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING THE SUBIC BAY NAVAL RESERVATION.

• 1942 JAPANESE ATTACK SUBIC BAY NAVAL STATION.

• 1944 THE U.S. LEBERATED THE NAVAL BASE.

• 1947 MILITARY BASE AGREEMENT OF 99 YEARS TERM.

• 1966 U.S. AGREEMENT WAS CHANGE TO EXPIRE IN 1991.

• 1979 THE MILITARY BASE AGREEMENT IS AMMENDED BUT U.S. GUARANTED “UNHAMPERED” MILITARY USE.,

• 1991 APRIL 2ND, MOUNT PINATUBO BEGAN IT’S STEMING.

Aerial Pics of Subic Bay, Philippines 10,000 Military

& Family Personnel.

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Satellite Photo of southern east Philippines

Mt. Pinatubo

FIERY VIGILMission: Evacuation of 19,000 Air Force and Naval personnel and their families from Clark AFB/Subic Bay during the eruption of Mount Pinatubo's volcano and Typhoon Yunya.

Dates: 16-26 June 1991

Participating Units: 17 7th Fleet ships; Anderson AFB Guam, Hickam AFB Hawaii, McChord AFB Washington, Travis AFB California

Type: (NEO) Humanitarian; Disaster Relief; Evacuation Location: Philippines

UNITS INVOLVED

• Persian Gulf task force 154, 23 ship armada

The carriers are: • Midway (CV- 41)• Theodore Roosevelt (CVN – 71)• America (CV – 66)• Ranger (CV- 61)

Three Aegis Cruisers• Leyte Gulf (CG-55)• Bunker Hill (CG-52)• Normandy (CG-60)

CLARK AIR FIELD•Nearly 1,000 446th reservists were called to active duty in support of Operation Desert Storm.

•Hundreds More wing reservists were activated for duty at McChord. Wing reservists pitched into to assist survivors of Mount Pinatubo eruption in Operation Fiery Vigil.

MOUNT PINATUBO AWAKEN

Mt. Pinatuobo had been dormant for 500 years, the size and impact of the eruption were completely

unexpected.

June 12, 1991, Eruption Cloud of Mt. Pinatubo from Clark Air Base

THE JUNE 1991 ERUPTION OF MOUNT PINATUBO,

PHILIPPINES ERUPTION PHASES. View to the west from Clark Air Base of the first major eruption of Pinatubo on June 12, 1991. After more than two

months of increasing activity, localized deformation, and emission of small plumes, a series of strong explosions on this date heralded the start of the

major pyroclastic phase.

MOUNT PINATUBO AWAKEN

The Secretary of Defense authorized evacuation of all non-essential military

and DOD civilian personnel and their

dependents at Clark Air Base to safe haven elsewhere in the

Philippines. Evacuation began at 0600 local on 10

June. 5 days later a massive eruption of

Mount Pinatubo occurred on 15 June that sent

debris over 100,000 feet into the air and then

down onto Clark, burying the base under one to two feet of ash. Those

who fled the base never went back.

EVACUATIONJUNE 10 5 A.M. MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM A. STADER13TH AIR FORCE COMMANDER,ORDERED THE EVACUATION OF ALL NON-MISSION ESSENTIAL PEOPLE AND FAMILIES TO SUBIC BAY.

THE FIRST VEHICLES WERE ROLLING OUT THE GATE SIX HOURS LATER 14,000 PEOPLE WERE ON THE ROAD HEADED FOR SUBIC BAY.

1,500 MISSION ESSENTIAL PEOPLE STILL STAYED BACK AT CARLK AIR BASE.

JNUE 10, 1991 ABOUT 14,000 FOLKS ON THE ROAD BEGAN THERE EVACUATION.

EVACUATION

• Fiery Vigil Evacuation of more than 45,000 military personnel, DOD civilians, and families from the Republic of the Philippines.

• Roughly 300 personnel were sent too Okinawa Air Base.

• While more than 19,700 took the trip of a life time by Naval Vessel to Guam, Hawaii, and the good old U.S.A.

ON THE USS MIDWAY AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN

June 17, USS Abraham Lincoln

•Transformed into a huge 4000bedroom with cots for people to sleep in.

•On load evacuees (2000 people and 500 pets)

USS Midway loading medical teams. 2,000 cots and enough food to feed 3,000 people for

two weeks

ASH SOLDIERS

MISSION SECURITY WAS A TOP PRIORITY, ALONG WITH RESTORING ESSENTIAL SERVICES LIKE POWER

AND WATER. MOVING MONITIONS OUT OF CLARK AND SUBIC BAY.

NAVY EXCHANGESeabees from Naval Mobile Construction

Battalion and Maintenance Unit 302, returning from Desert Storm was diverted to Subic bay

Naval Station.

CLARK AIR BASE PHILLIPPINES

• THE VOLCANO RENDERED CONTINUED U.S. OPERATION AT CLARK VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE, SO AT ONCE THE U.S. DRAFTED A BASE CLOSURE PLAN. A SAFE, ORDERLY, WITHDRAWAL.

CLARK AIR BASE HOUSING

• The Secretary of the Air Force visited Clark Air Base on 5 November and paid tribute to those who remained throughout the volcanic activity and cleanup-the Ash Warriors. The American flag was lowered for the last time on 26 November 1991 by those Ash Warriors and Clark Air Base was turned over to the government of the Philippines, ending over 90 years of US presence at the base.

CONCLUSION• More than 53,000 Evacuated and 20,000

permanently displaced• Taking Several Hundred Human lives• $ 250 million in damage• Shut Down two major U.S. Bases in the

Republic of the Philippines.

QUESTIONS?

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