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Instructor. She completed a 7month deployment. Captain Mike Napolitano is serving with the navys expedition training group. While deployed in 2004, he spearheaded Maritime Patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as Commanding Officer of the expeditionary training group. This is a fabulous panel and i know youre going to appreciate what they have to say. Rear admiral, ...

Group. While deployed in 2004, he spearheaded Maritime Patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as Commanding Officer of the expeditionary training group. This is a fabulous panel and i know youre going to appreciate what they have to say. Rear admiral, i think youll start. First of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to San Francisco fleet ...

Them into a confrontation with the United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Sec...

The asia pacific region. Secondly, that we would maintain freedom of access throughout that region. In particular, we would maintain the sea lanes in that area, whatever the challenge might be. Even as we reduce our defense budget, therefore we must maintain and would maintain a powerful navy, and that that navy would be charged with maintaining the freedom of those sea lanes. We had, of course, to be concerned as to whether there would be a challenge for that. We observed that the rise and shin...

Program of exercise we conducted. The exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. During the time i was secretary, we had a Disaster Response very similar to the one theyre doing here in San Francisco today. We bought naval forces from the United States, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. And these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising h...

Stories from the field, if you will, peoples experiences in working in International Environments to help promote humanitarian missions. Fleet week got involved with a humanitarian mission back in october in the earthquake in van, turkey. Theres a heavy kurdish in San Francisco and the. Better recover from their event and how to better prepare in the future from the katz traufk event that had taken place would not occur. We got a phone call at the fleet Week Association to ask if we could help b...

Multiple professional military Education Programs and other venues and the maturing of thinking and policies since 9 11 and katrina. There is a recognition within this analysis that there are gaps in awareness of the capabilities dod can provide in complex catastrophes, as well as the inherent complexities and lack of understanding in our various chains of command and our authorities. The report recognizes what we have used to drive the dsca portion of fleet week, that local authorities are like...

The United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Security strategy is that unambigu...

President ial election underway, and the chinese were using a not too subtle way of explaining to them what they wanted the outcome of that election to be. Thises was an unacceptable form of military coercion and both the general and i agreed that a strong response was needed by the United States, something more than a diplomatic letter of protest. After some discussion we agreed to send two Carrier Battle Groups to taiwan. Within an hour the president had approved our recommendation and before ...

Shine has more energy needs for more energy than they can produce themselves, and to maintain the Economic Growth which they believe is essential. We observed that the South China Sea is a potential source of Energy Supplies for china and that there is a contention among the nations in that region as to where the ownership and rights of access are to the South China Sea. And this is conceivable that china might seek to reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them int...