Was trying to be sure we took people and spent time with the Police Officers themselves. We probably spent way too much too much emphasis on contractors early on and the problem with that was we would send our Contractor Force out, they may have been the only people out there doing the training, and what would happen when the threat increase took place, the contractors would remain on the safety of the compound. This could go on for days or weeks. The frustration came from the afghans because they relied on that training on a daily basis. So the person that was with them training them may not be there now for days or weeks at a time. So we kind of changed that around and said we need to take our armed personnel and put them out there and spend time with these folks day in and day out, not only built trust between us and the afghans but it gave them the ability to prg on a daily basis. So the other frustration was the coalition effort. There was a lot of people with great intentions wil
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