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Macon, were learning the best. Firefighting below the deck, members on the flight deck learning about aircraft rescue, firefighting. Similarly, and i wont be able to stay the whole day today because soon ill be headed over to treasure island, a former navy firefighting school, well have that facility about 14 years and well be welcoming 40 members from the u. S. Marine corps, 20 members from the u. S. Navy, 10 members the u. S. Coast guard, where we will then partner with them and cross train them and use our techniques, reaching technical rescue and high and low rescue being demonstrated in d...

Seminars such as this and the opportunity to network with our colleagues and each other on search and rescue and Public Safety. Its just a great addition to the already exciting opportunity to see the navy and our armed forces at work. Some of you may be wondering exactly why am i here, whats a ranger doing up here during fleet week. Ill try to explain that a little bit. This is our 40th anniversary of having a National Park in San Francisco. So, those strikev lands at the golden gate hills right behind that helicopter there are now part of the golden gate National Parks. And that happened 40 ...

Greatest Civil Engineering set of blunders that our country has made in our countrys history. And what we all learn from Hurricane Katrina is what happens when we dont have a community that is prepared and a set of relationships that is ready to be hit by the big one. Which leads me to the third reason why i wake up at night. The neighborhoods that i represent in the northeast not only represent the oldest neighborhoods in our city, but some of the most vulnerable. We have some of the poorest residents. Half of my district are recent immigrants who are mono lingual. I have hundreds of constitu...

And for all of you, tomorrow were going to have the former secretary defense William Perry speak. And the final speaker tomorrow will be the commander of north com, it will be the first time the northern command. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to day two of the Senior Leader seminar for San Francisco fleet week 2012. We had a great day yesterday and were going to have an even greater day today. Weve got a number of people that i would like to bring up to welcome you all. While this Senior Leader seminar is going on, theres a number of other activities that are going on at the same time. And a v...

Preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the First Responders, the great coming together of our uniformed pers...