This hearing will come to order. The war in ukraine is at an inflection point. Counter offensive to reclaim its rightful territories putin is desperate. Forcing unwilling men across russia to join an illegal and increasingly unpopular war. Buying rockets from north korea, drones from iran, staging sham referendums. So funny that even governments friendly to moscow have said they wont recognize him. Make a mistake, ukraine continues to face a daily nightmare of pulling neighbors and countrymen out of mass graves and children going to school in basements or fighting for their very existence. Seven months into this war, putin is not where he wanted to be. Thanks to the ukrainian people, more than 15 billion in weapons from the United States and a Strong International coalition but it is also do to trying to isolate russia from the Financial System. To strip russia of revenues reserves and access to Global Markets. Ambassador obrien, rosenberg, i want to take a moment to come been commende
Announcement of the incident. But the real key is that those plans will need to be immediately operational so that we can sort out who really does need to come in and get what level of care and that varies by facility, depending on their capabilities, along with hospital lockdown plans to secure the overall Physical Plant and make sure those capabilities remain intact for all sorts of threats. And the other key piece is dph is an immediate back up to that with the ability to use our clinics and our other partners to stand up potentially alternate care centers and other types of, depeplding on the situation, other types of areas where people can be triaged or get information or get care if necessary. So those plans are in place, were constantly developing them because we have to really look and we dont have the ability to predesignate every site, after an earthquake we need to make sure each and every site we announce to the public is safe before its announced so its a complex type of s
Load patients to other counties, to other states, to other areas in the country . Do your roads work . Do you have a transportation infrastructure, do you have a Communications Net up . No . We can bring that. We come as we are. We constantly prepare for the next major conflict. In the navy our motto is this is big navys motto a global force for good. We believe that we operate on a continuum of bringing heat and light. You are sitting on one of those platforms right now. You are sitting on this amazing lhd, the uss macon island, it can bring the heat or it can bring the light. Do you want to get a little twitchy around the world and you want to sort of rattle the cage a little bit and test our will and show bravado . You dont want an Amphibious Group showing up off your shore. That can be a bad day for you. On the other hand, wed like to bring the light. Wed like to bring the medical prowess, its ability to generate electricity for you, wed like to bring its cadre of people to rebuild
Something happens. I know we are quite a bit ahead of time, you are going to have a 20minute break from now and then our next speaker will come up at that point. Thank you again. He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. General spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here
The military planners and also the civilian planners is definitely going to be bearing fruit in years to come when something happens. I know we are quite a bit ahead of time, you are going to have a 20minute break from now and then our next speaker will come up at that point. Thank you again. He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendou