Some of our challenges were the radio communications. We got cross banded with San Francisco but bringing in commercial satellite down to the marine force that would be on the ground was one of the challenges that we had to work through after the event. It was successful but its something that in planning in an emergency we need to make sure that the correct satellite assets are down to the end users, the people on the ground. Hello, so we had a lot of success i think we talked about, at least at the ocean beach location we were able to get the ip Internet Communications with web eoc, we had really good telephone communications, you know, with our blackberries, our smart phones and some satellite phones. I think from at least the citys perspective our biggest challenge was the lan communications. Weve worked really hard to improve interoperatability communications with the city. If we were needing assistance from Oakland Police department and they needed to come into San Francisco, we
Just one, and that is i will pass to my relief to continue to support events like this and look for opportunities to continue to learn how we best in the military can integrate 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
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 task for next year when we do this communications drill, which i hope we continue to do, and i think you mentioned this earlier, we assumed that all of the citys primary communications were online and operational. We used 800 megahertz push to talk radios here. We assumed that system was online and operational and i think next year it would be a really good exercise for us to pull that Communications Capability out of the picture and use military assets. I think were going to have a lot of Lessons Learned out of that activity and it would be a good exercise for the city personnel to understand how they would operate using the military aid. I think one of the things that i wrote in my after action report it my boss was about training. We actually have an acu1,
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 underway. Ill boil mine down into just one, and that is i will pass to my relief to continue to support events like this and look for opportunities to continue to learn how we best in the military can integrate with our civilian and federal contemporaries to be prepared for an eventuality that we hope will never come, but we certainly sho
Just one, and that is i will pass to my relief to continue to support events like this and look for opportunities to continue to learn how we best in the military can integrate 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