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Response here. This is our urban search and rescue event that was part of the overall exercise. We had a lot of different partners that responded to this rubble pile. We had urban search and rescue, u. S. Coast guard, and this 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 part...

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 t...

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 exerc...

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...

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...

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...

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 s...

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