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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, general baldwin, we heard from colonel span owe about now your three hats of authority, your state...

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 system. We instituted assessments for growth in schools, we create the thresholds for the complete tur...

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 regional groups that are working together before the unified command has been established, coordinat...

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 we got there i want to set the frame here so you understand what were dealing with. Afghanistan range...

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 people that train and certify that Crisis Response Adaptive Force package. His folks also put together...