Weigh in on that. We have an introduction all training service, students from several Different Countries that come here, they learn aviation, they become naval aviators while they are here and it is something weve been doing for quite a while and what our partner nations, it is important that the crosspollination and crosstraining that we do with our allies is something that weve done for a long time. We have air force folks training here, always been International Students training here because its a good place to train and good quality training. How many students do you have internationally . I cant speak to the exact number of International Student students. Roughly . Close to my number. What was he training to do . He was in aviation biplane so training in aviation. The suspect was a member of a Saudi Arabia Air force . I dont want to get into that, that is up to the fbi, it would be speculation on my part to say that. Again, i am not going to speak about his exact training right
more changes? i am not going to speculate. how are you confident that he was acting alone? i am not going to speculate on the particulars of the investigation or exactly what happened. thank you very much, i appreciate it, thank you, everybody, . there training, they rushed in with a lot of people would not do so and risk their lives for that. i thought you might have a chance to talk about them. we have been to the hospital to see the officers and their families and to kind of reinforce what the captain just said, we do active shooter training both on-site training and also computer simulation is that we train with the dod police and the program in the navy so this was an actual example of where all that training comes in, how do we react to this and how do we coordinate and communicate with each other, so unfortunately that training was put to the test today. i will tell you, it is hard to
morning, from the navy police, dod police, es cac yeah county, two of which got shot doing this response. also the florida highway patrol, presence cola police department, our state and federal partners. i don t want to lose sight of the fact they got here in short order, neutralized the threat and, as i mentioned before, so there s no further loss of life. let s keep that in the back of our mind as well as the thoughts to those injured and certainly the family of those who lost their lives this morning. there was also a mother back there who has a 3-month-old still on the base that she was trying to get to. she had a 3-month-old she was trying to get to. i ll talk to you and we ll take care of it. any other questions? thank you all very much. all right. that s the important thing, all the things we needed to know and so that is the news conference with that breaking news out of pensacola, florida.
were on the scene two minutes after the call came out, inside the gate moving towards deployment. we had more than enough teams and resources. we didn t turn anybody away. nobody was turned away by their own agency that i m aware of. but i don t think you could have had a faster response. the military folks, d.o.d. police and ncis both were also on the scene and in the building in a matter of minutes. i think the response was as quick as it could be. another report that the whole navy yard was really undermanned as far as police was concerned. only seven police officers on the navy yard that monday morning. are you familiar with what was going on then? i do know that the first engagement with the shooter was the naval district of washington, their military police. those officers and the guard there, contract guard with them were the first ones to engage the shooter. i don t know what their total number of personnel was. but i spoke with the chief personally when he came out of the