Forest when you dont have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire . Its an excellent question, sir. We spend a large time in cal fire on Public Education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or Vegetation Management program in cal fire, we have a Robust Program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and Vegetation Management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u. S. Forest service. So twofold program, Vegetation Management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a Public Education stand point. What we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be selfsustaining and selfsupporting. They need to be prepared. We try to educate them in respect that we say well provide the offense, you provide the defense. We talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure
Build upon and leverage what were doing here. Communications, that was one of the first things. Its different with our active duty forces because you see here, we send our aircraft all around the world. We cant necessarily just invest in some components in the aircraft and call it good because those assets may be gone and deployed but we have work arounds for that. We are looking forward to that as well in addition to the training. Lastly is we again kind of relish the opportunity to participate in the operations against an active enemy. At least here, its fire. We appreciate the fact we can go ahead and enter a Tactical Command air control. Those are operations that are familiar to us and they are, its a great exercise for us tactically as well. We are able to integrate with cal fire itself with the objective being the fire itself. Those work out for us here and we can go ahead and use those skills forward as well. Thank you very much, we appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, id like
But we have work arounds for that. We are looking forward to that as well in addition to the training. Lastly is we again kind of relish the opportunity to participate in the operations against an active enemy. At least here, its fire. We appreciate the fact we can go ahead and enter a Tactical Command air control. Those are operations that are familiar to us and they are, its a great exercise for us tactically as well. We are able to integrate with cal fire itself with the objective being the fire itself. Those work out for us here and we can go ahead and use those skills forward as well. Thank you very much, we appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, id like to thank our panelists and open it up to our group for any questions of our panelists today. Yes, sir, secretary. There are a lot of things you can do in a forest that tend to make it easier it fight a fire like most importantly burning off the fuel during the wet season so theres less for the fire to feed on. To what extent in ca
Need to keep the ball moving forward. We cant i think most of us all here would agree, we really cant prevent the next disaster from happening. But by building the partnerships that we are here today and will continue to build in the future, we can certainly limit the number of deaths and longterm destruction. We can surge a lot of things resources, people. But we cannot surge trust. So venues such as this is what helps us build that trust so that when the bell does go off we know a comment i made yesterday and id like to use it again in closing today, the most important thing for me to come out of this twoday seminar and sbat into the future is the ability for us to physically face to face look each other in the eye, shake hands and say to each other, we are in this together. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. applause . Thank you, admiral beeman. You have helped me carry out one of the instructions secretary schultz gave to me 3 years ago, bring the fleet back to fleet week. We couldnt
To do it. Lieutenant colonel. Yes, general, in the mou it does address the ground portion but the focus of effort is mainly on the aviation side but it is built in there for the ground side if necessary. I just want to say in 2008 we did activate hand crews to fight fires and weve identified soldiers throughout the state to respond if needed. Theyve got the tools that they need, the boots and all that cached and available. Its really just a matter of getting the call and being ready to go. I was going to end with general myat. I know weve trained soldiers to do that kind of thing. After the colorado fires just recently they did put a lot of soldiers that trained, so we do still have that program who can do that if the need warrants. Any other questions from out there before i turn it over to general myat . Let me thank our panel here. Thank you. applause . As we leave here today, we need to keep the ball moving forward. We cant i think most of us all here would agree, we really cant pr