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Then cause the white house to react to what theyre seeing on cnn. So, how do you get in front of that news cycle . And the only way you can do that as tip oneill said, all things in politics are local and i think we heard from vice admiral nathan that i think all responses are local as well. And, so, we really need to start most importantly at the local level, at those planning levels, because the first shot of any campaign, the plan will change, but the partnerships need to remain constant. And...

Health systems, anything that would contribute to their growth. So girls in school, big focus area. We wanted to reverse the effects of the state of women and girls in afghanistan. So once the security foot hold was gained in southwest afghanistan by the marines in 2010 and 2011 and they continued to conduct operations as im speaking, we began to build capacity at every level to ensure the afghans are ultimately able to take the helm of their own destiny and they have the capacity to run this sy...

Struggling with and we are working with on a daily basis. Thank you, mr. Brig. Every exercise ive been involved with, managing information and communication is easily no. 1 or 2 on the list. In the heat of an event, information is flowing in, theres usually no shortage of information rtion its translating that to something credible that is the challenge. Usually 50 percent of that information is wrong and untimely. Before a unified command is established and you have various city departments or ...

Im going to bring you to when i was there during 2010 and 2011 after the president decided to surge the forces. First marine decision, First Marine Expeditionary force forward entered southwest afghanistan during 2009. We arrived in 2010 so it was a bit more stable. And we went straight to helman and nimruz province. Very complex dynamic environment that we were operating in but before i begin it talk to you about the operational picture, i just want to give you a snapshot of afghanistan. When w...

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 pe...

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 o...

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 where were going to see our success down the road. Thank you. applause . Thank you, barry, now its Lieutenant Commander serrano and captain napalitano good morning, everyone, im pleased to be here today to tell you about an exercise we conducted this past summer in hawaii as part of rim...

Function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, were going to need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yep...

San andreas fault. Were working with other city departments so they know what to expect from us. Its been an education process. As we started down the road i think there was an expectation all water and sewer was going to be in operation in San Francisco after an ert quake. That probably is not going to happen. Its a little bit different having several blocks in your population out of water versus out of electricity or gas or cell phone service. Its a little bit different level of emergency. Aft...

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 willing to help shared by many different countries. The frustration was many different countries, theres m...