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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 equipment. We also had some medical partners there where they were able to locate and evacuate the 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 p ....
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 ....
Commander steve everett, to his left Lieutenant Colonel dana, marine corps installation west. Thank you. Let me go ahead and start off by talking a little bit and just going back over some of the discussions yesterday that i think are going to play into this discussion. We had vice admiral beeman talk a little bit yesterday about capabilities and vice admiral zunkoff talked about partnerships, unity of effort, unity of command. Mayor lee talked about dod efforts, expertise, Community Efforts and as we go into all those discussions today you will see best practices applied during the 10 years from those fires. I have the pleasure of working for administrator fuget in fema headquarters. Femas role is to coordinate response between state and local governments and his focus, his direction to us really comes down it 3 things. He asks us to always plan for the worst case, th ....
We also had the humanitarian assistance coordination center. Thats the place we were able to take the nongovernmental agencies and the hoetion Nation International agencies and have them interacting and coordinating with the military folks so that we were able to provide an understanding of how we all work together. So if you want additional information, if you want to talk to captain napalitano, he is the Commanding Officer for the expeditionary training group, and he is the in charge of the people that train and certify that Crisis ResponseAdaptive Force package. His folks also put together the different events for this, for the exercise. The apan provides us an opportunity to be able to share this information with others who want to share the informat ....
Necessarily wrong, but it was different. So from the afghan perspective, incredibly frustrating to understand where they are going and what they need to be doing and what is right and what is wrong. So in closing if someone were to ask me from 2010 to where 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 t ....