what we re looking forward to do. we re looking forward to build upon and leverage what we re doing here. communications, that was one of the first things. it s different with our active duty forces because you see here, we send our aircraft all around the world. we can t 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, it s 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, it s 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 we
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 there s less for the fire to feed on. to what extent in cal fire and all your other things do you encourage people to do things in their forest when you don t have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire? it s 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 two-fold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a public education stand poi
the first things. it s different with our active duty forces because you see here, we send our aircraft all around the world. we can t 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, it s 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, it s 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, i d like to thank our panelists and open it up to our group for any q
we re doing well right now but there s khal lefrpgs we can do better on and that s exactly what we re looking forward to do. we re looking forward to build upon and leverage what we re doing here. communications, that was one of the first things. it s different with our active duty forces because you see here, we send our aircraft all around the world. we can t 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, it s 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, it s a great exercise for us tactically as well. we are able to integrate with cal fire itself with the objective being the fir
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 two-fold 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 self-sustaining and self-supporting. they need to be prepared. we try to educate them in respect that we say we ll provide the offense, you provide the defense. we talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure against wild land fires. a lot of it is public education, survivability, building standards, but predominately our focus is putting the onus on the land owner, putting