Discussions that took place yesterday, what are some of the things you learned about relating to civilian issues that will exist and how will you be able to help . . Oo . A Northern California has rich and diverse medical response capabilities. Its impressive the types of capabilities, the number of assets, the number of people trained to do these things are. The California National guard has air and land assets that are substantial and can be rapidly deployed to assist the civil responders in their mission to move people, to get things set up, to establish common security. Its a partnership that really needs to happen and is natural. The governor controls the california natial guard, he can make forces appear very rapidly in support of a regional disaster, a local emergency or wherever they are needed, and transportation, communication, security logistics capabilities that come to the table really augment the medical care thats being provided in the disaster scene. Like colonel ingels
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 underway. Ill boil mine down into just one, and that is i will pass to my relief to continue to support events like
Defined chain of command and a large response capable of being produced. However, in an overwhelming disaster things dont always go as planned and certainly our experiences in combat has showed us there and Prior Experience with disasters have outlined that even though theres a welldefined system of response it doesnt always work out. What i defined yesterday was that logistics problems may get in the way and interfere with medical surge planning as is outlined. Putting resources where they are needed in a huge disaster may outstrip the ability of local authorities to do that because roads are out. The niche we have as the marine corps assets we have the ability to locate some of our resources like shock trauma platoons, thats what we do in combat and we have experience with that and that may be something that may be of benefit to this process. During the last panel, mr. Cahen mentioned its so important to understand the resources that his agency has versus the ones that the military h
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
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 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 t