Us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other responses . I wanted to touch can you hear me now . I wanted to touch on that last topic as far as the command control because what we have here in the marine corps is similar to the navy. We have the installation, the regional installation command and also partners with the operational foresite. We allow the operational foresight, we maintain those but then we coordinate, cooperate, with the operational foresight once the call comes in for support. So were able to do that obviously through memorandum of understandings and we have agreements and our wing operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at least under operational response, maintains with the operators. The third aircraft wing maintains operational c
Operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at least under operational response, maintains with the operators. The third aircraft wing maintains operational control but we send our operatives out to be controlled by the civic sight. Were comfortable with that and thats matured a lot in the last couple years. Talked a lot about command and control and agreements and moving resources. One other question that came up yesterday we were discussing yesterday is how do communications occur specifically with regard to when we Start Talking about air ops and moving air resources around, how do we ensure that we have that interoperatability that we discussed so much yesterday between the different components. Can you hear me now . Perfect. It all begins with preplanning and Strategic Planning ahead of time. How our agreements at a local level were born was out of the 2003 cedar fire. The cedar fire was about 280,000 acres. As an example, i have the dubious distinction of being o
About how is the National Guard and dod resources and capabilities integrated into the command and control at the fire and also the supporting ops centers whether it be the gac or other centers down there. Maybe our military personnel can talk about that, or ray. Its important to note that we are the supporting effort to cal fire and we get called in when they are basically out of assets. We are working for cal fire, they are the incident commanders, we follow their coordination, typically were the last ones in and the first ones out. We do have an ongoing relationship with cal fire, im in contact with cal fire all the time. We have good Situational Awareness whats going on in the state of california. They normally put us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other respons
Us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other responses . I wanted to touch can you hear me now . I wanted to touch on that last topic as far as the command control because what we have here in the marine corps is similar to the navy. We have the installation, the regional installation command and also partners with the operational foresite. We allow the operational foresight, we maintain those but then we coordinate, cooperate, with the operational foresight once the call comes in for support. So were able to do that obviously through memorandum of understandings and we have agreements and our wing operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at least under operational response, maintains with the operators. The third aircraft wing maintains operational c
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