Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Common ResponsibilitiesChapter 3 Operational Planning Cycle The United States Coast Guard (CG) Incident Management Handbook (IMH) is designed to assist CG personnel in the use of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Incident Command System (ICS) during responseoperations. The ICS program has adopted the motto Ordo e Chao – Order out of Chaos. The IMH is intended to be used as a reference job aid for responders to provide a systematic response process bringing order out of the chaos of incident response. It is not a policy document but rather guidance for response personnel requiring judgment in application.If you would like us to up load additional chapters, please let us know and consider becoming a patron at Patreon.com/usgovpub