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To be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, and the National Guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful ye...

Need. Were going to need help with patient movement. Were going to need help with the chronickly ill because by the time the military arrives, a day or so into it at least, even with the best of plans, were going to have to start figuring out how do we manage those chronic patients and you know what, moving stuff is what theyre really good at. Moving patients in particular, they are amazing. So we start to look at things like that. As we look through this and we start to talk, remember its beyon...

Of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the...

Earth moves, things fall, we get a lot of rubble. Thats going to be one of our critical, critical things we have to do. We have to be able to move material and personnel and one of the ways were going to be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, and the National Guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We ...

All working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this...

Network. And with that brings the promise of new challenges for sure in interoperatability and new capabilities that we have never had before. In fact, no other country is as far along as we are, even though were just starting. What we see is the opportunity there to interoperate in many different ways than just voice as we have in the past. The challenge for us in the future will be the challenge of connectivity where we can connect wide band or narrow band voice or data or video across differe...

Some of our challenges were the radio communications. We got cross banded with San Francisco but bringing in commercial satellite down to the marine force that would be on the ground was one of the challenges that we had to work through after the event. It was successful but its something that in planning in an emergency we need to make sure that the correct satellite assets are down to the end users, the people on the ground. Hello, so we had a lot of success i think we talked about, at least a...

Width and video feed that im not qualified to talk about, im strictly a push to talk guy. We know as a city when the earth moves, things fall, we get a lot of rubble. Thats going to be one of our critical, critical things we have to do. We have to be able to move material and personnel and one of the ways were going to be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, ...

With that, im going to bring up dejon and take over the panel and ill talk to you shortly. Thank you, rob. The panelists we have represent a broad group of participants, some of them participated themselves and some of them had individuals in their organizations participate. And i want them to start with an introduction of who they are, a little bit about their own background, so you understand the lens they were looking through when they were providing some of their answers today. Starting with...

Of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the...