With our civilian and federal contemporaries to be prepared for an eventuality that we hope will never come, but we certainly should be prepared for. So the one thing im passing on is keep the momentum. Thank you, all. One other benefit that was cited in the after action review and also was mentioned today is the chance it meet someone else from the other agency. We also heard a lot about training, understanding ics, understanding dsca and thats defense support of civil authorities. Its the Guiding Principles for how our Armed Services are going to support civilians when something happens. And i think those are common across a lot of the themes you are going to hear today and throughout the weekend. So id kind of like to take those two off the table because they are sort of gimmes and put it to you, what are the things you told your boss about this exercise and what is something that for next year you would like to see us do . Michelle, if youd start us off. So i think that the major t
Complicated. We dont understand under that structure normally. Its very important that my relief understands or any disca planner understands that c2 piece. Second is understand the ics and then take the time to get the training. We put together a pretty robust Training Plan in preparation for this. We did the fema online course, eoc course at nasne, hadr course, trained with cal fire, take the time to take that training. Its tough to fit it in but its important to fit it in and it will make us more effective. We did an exercise back in may in preparation for this and developed a pretty detailed concept of operations. We built load plan, timelines, spare parts lists, we really got into the weeds, thinking about the second and third tier effects, so i want my relief to understand that and i want him to know where that plan is so he can pull it right off the shelf if this ever happens and be ready to respond quickly instead of trying to figure this all out when we need to be getting unde
Future and we know its going to happen, we just dont know when, i sometimes tell my team were one day closer to the next disaster. I dont know when its going to be, but were one day closer. When that happens its unlikely that the people we exercised with are actually going to be the people who are responding. So knowing that, what are the top 3 things that you might share, your elevator speech, if you will. Rob mentioned institutional knowledge. What do you want to take and give to someone else when they come to San Francisco . And this is for our military participants. Captain houston . My recommendation, dod element coming into a city incident, is, one, bring a list of your communications capabilities, your frequencies and documented in its capabilities, not necessarily the acronym of your branch. We came in with our hf radios and lucas took that information, he understood it and put it on to his ics form. So thats the no. 1 priority that i would say to bring in initially. 2, i would
Work, time and thought has been put into that. I think one of the best conferences that ive attended was the very last one in september, which was the after action. I know jill raycauft and lucas ekrode have taken this to heart so we do have a road map for next year. Read the after action. No. 2, captain houston mentioned it already, its think open architecture. I noticed that departures for the military, our communication is encrypted, when you are doing humanitarian assistance or even here on national soil, you need to be able to communicate. So that was a take away, probably unencrypted plain text communication. Think open architecture. The last one that i have is definitely familiarize yourself with disca, its coming to the forefront, communications quite specifically. That means knowing what civilian authorities utilize in terms of frequencies and wave forms and thats not something that we do every day as communicators. So it provides an opportunity for a more wellround ed case an
City were required to have a tactical interoperatable communications plan. It describes how you interoperate in an emergency or an event within the city as well as regional partners. We dont have that with military and i think thats one of the biggest take aways, we need to really flesh out a document so we have captured who our contacts are, what technology they are going to bring to the table and start that initial planning from the getgo. We also had some technical challenges with land mobile radio. You know, we have the coverage issues, but we were stationed at the San Francisco Police Department command van, i had some very sharp people there who were able to work through a lot of those interoperatability issues so a huge thank you to the Police Department and also the Fire Department and Sheriffs Department were also there able to provide us with otherality gnat communications paths, only channels we were able to use for the exercise. It was a really good team effort by the city,