Omaha is home to a nine-person U.S. Air Force and civilian team that spends most of its time planning for the enemies you can't see.

They operate under C-STARS Omaha, which stands for Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills.

"We are Air Force training platforms partnering with civilian medical centers to advance medical readiness training for medical personnel," said the center's director, Lt. Col. Dr. Elizabeth Schnaubelt.

Schnaubelt said Omaha was selected as a site based on the expertise of the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Biocontainment Unit.

The Biocontainment Unit's job is to contain and teach how to contain highly infectious diseases.

UNMC was on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and was one of the nation's leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We need the ability to move and care for patients infected with these diseases wherever they are," said Dr. James Lawler, UNMC's director of clinical and biodefense research.

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