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Department of Energy (DOE)
Y-12 Special Response Teams
Y-12
Plant, Oak Ridge Tennessee
Special
Response Team at the Oak Ridge Central Training
Facility (CTF) A Team stacked up for entry
during Live Fire House Training
About
Y-12 Special Response Teams
- The Department
of Energy Y-12
Plant is located in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee and is tasked with manufacturing
and reworking nuclear weapon components, dismantling
nuclear weapon components returned from the national
arsenal, serves as the nation's storehouse for special
nuclear material (SNM), and provides special production
support to various programs. The Special Response
Teams (SRT) are tasked with the mission to protect
nuclear weapon components and special nuclear material
(SNM) with deadly force if necessary. These teams
are filled with professionals that have served in
the Military and local, state and federal Law Enforcement.
It is not uncommon to find former Marines, Rangers,
Special Forces, and Air Force Security Police veterans
serving in various positions within the teams. Additional,
all team members go through extensive initial training
and regular testing to gain and keep their position.
Qualification standards include bi-annual marksmanship
testing with all team weapons. Some of those
qualifications include precision shooting while on
the move (no easy skill), obstacle course that
includes engaging various targets while negotiating
obstacles, individual and team building assaults
(CQB) in both day and night conditions, and various
other physical and written test. In all, they receive
more that ten times the annual training time of some
Law Enforcement departments.
Special
Response Team Assaulters
Additional Facts about the Oak
Ridge Y-12 Plant
Owner—U.S.
Department of Energy
Managing
Contractor—Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.
Location—In
the Bear Creek Valley of East Tennessee, within the
city limits of Oak Ridge, Tennessee (population 28,000),
about 15 miles from Knoxville
Size—811
acres, spanning 2.5 miles, with some 250 buildings
that house about 7 million square feet of laboratory,
research and development, machining, dismantlement,
and storage areas
Unions—International
Guards Union of America (IGUA) Atomic Trades and Labor
Council (ATLC), consisting of 18 local unions
Mailing
Address—Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant; P.O. Box 2009;
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8245
