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
The table in terms of medical. It was a huge hit, to be perfectly honest. It was well received. The medical community here in town was very impressed, really wanted to see more of it, and this year we grew that a little bit. It took flight, literally. It started with looking at rather than be a show and tell, like most things with fleet week, it started with, lets make it more than an air show. Then it led to lets get on the ground and do hands on with our middle managers. The same thing is happening in the medical exchange program. We have gone from a show and tell basically of this is what we have to offer, to this year of actual demonstration of that in a more austere environment and we tried to fit that in, how does it fit in with what were doing in San Francisco and the bay area with medical planning. So yesterday we had an opportunity to go out and see a shock trauma platoon set up on ocean beach, had them running demonstrations and asking questions of the doctors and nurses ther
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 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 g