Medical patients and that also showed a great partnership. This is the Health Care Association for hawaii and this is the part of the agency that helped us coordinate the medical response part of this. They were able to conduct a 50bed Disaster Medical Assistance Team hospital on the island of oahu and this allowed the state of hawaii to be able to exercise their statewide disaster drill. One of the things that hawaii has never been able to do is to be able to practice together in one live exercise. They have all of their processes, how theyre going to respond in a local disaster situation, but they have never been able to really put that to use. And being able to partner with us during the rimpac exercise offered them the opportunity to do that. We also had a lot of Civil Military interaction by us providing a lot of capability for them to be able to exercise their disaster plan as well. You see some patients here in the moulage. They were able to moulage and fake wounds and put triag
Channels to be able to open it up for maritime traffic in the bay. This part, this event, was the satellite, construction of a satellite medical facility. Some of our military capability is we have the right engineers and people that can go in and rebuild infrastructure and support. So one of the things they did during this exercise, they actually went in there for about a weeklong event and actually constructed a building and this also helps us it restore capability to wherever we are responding to. This shows a lot of different response here. This is our urban search and rescue event that was part of the overall exercise. We had a lot of different partners that responded to this rubble pile. We had urban search and rescue, u. S. Coast guard, and this provided an opportunity for our military to work with the federal and state partners there in learning how to interact with their agencies and also being able to learn some of the different capabilities that they have in using their equi
Recent in the news that the increases happened so he thought i might be able to add some Background Information on that. For about 6 months i was the Senior Advisor to the chief of police for Kabul City Police department in the capitol. Back at the end of 20092010, we real laiz that we probably spent a great deal of money and effort on trying to transform the afghan army and we probably neglected the police force. And the reason that realization was so important was because the police in afghanistan are not what we consider traditional police. Theres a number of Police Officers in the audience that could understood this. In afghanistan, the police are not so concerned with traffic control, traffic is insane in afghanistan. So youll see traffic lights but they dont work. They are not so concerned with chasing criminals. What they are concerned with is protecting themselves and protecting the villagers. In a lot of places throughout afghanistan, the police might be the only thing thats s
Were at now, is there hope i would say, yes, there is. As we stand down our combat forces and shift to an advisory and a training role i think were going to be able to take our lessons lerbed learned and ensure that we can continue to build on what weve done. There were some Great Success stories. One of the things we worked on a lot was trying to bring women into the policing, something that was unheard of only a few years ago. Nina talked about the teachers but there was women who wanted to be Police Officers, there was women who had Death Threats against them from their own families and were actually serving as Police Officers in hiding because they wanted to do something that was important. So that was, to me that was a huge success story. But i think what we need to do is reset our vetting process, put more bio metrics in and ensure that we are Standing Shoulder to shoulder with the afghans as they try to build and then we teach the afghans to help themselves. And i think thats wh
Right attitude and you can see the Tactical Unit at the bottom there and the Crisis Response Civil Military Operations Center that was there to provide the command and control of those Tactical Units responding on the military side, this provided a perfect environment and opportunity for them to be able to interact with the civilian partners and provide the most appropriate response and understanding. Very complex and again i just want to reiterate that the military, we know when were responding in this type of environment that were not coming in with the heavy capability and saying dont worry, were here to help you and take over, were here to complement and support you with the appropriate ways that you request our needs. The next few slides that im going to go over here shows some of the military capability and how some of those responses that we did during this exercise can also be applied at home in a domestic environment such as a response to maybe an earthquake here in San Franci