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Know how to solve problems. Again, its our job to understand what the limitations are. Its our job to understand that what is given in terms of giving an asset an order and we may look at it and say, hey, things change, we need to go over there now. That may or may not be something our military counterparts can do. We have to understand that. We have to understand that in order to maximize the efficiency and efficacious of that resource. This year we did a command of control exercise and we did a communications drill and we did them simultaneously. They were sort of related, sort of not. One w...

To move material and personnel and one of the ways were going to be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, and the National Guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the fi...

This year we did a command of control exercise and we did a communications drill and we did them simultaneously. They were sort of related, sort of not. One was, we brought out the coms people and said, play, we set up 3 points around the city and said play, make this stuff connect. See if we can talk to each other. We had the National Guard above us in a helicopter, even though it was really foggy, they didnt see much, but they demonstrated proof of concept that they can connect the video feed. We learned there are limitations in things of band width and video feed that im not qualified to ta...

Of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the next scenarios we can challenge people with. It probably wont be the same ones. We are building the...

This is the third time Union Members have voted on a deal they rejected the first two. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama live at the union hall in oakland when that announcement came less than an hour ago. Jana. Reporter frank, ac transit has nearly 80,000 riders no doubt relieve had the the buses will continue running. And tonight here is what the un president said what the Union President said. Were very satisfied that the riders will get the service theyre used to and they deserve. The atu local 192 represents about 1,600ac transit bus drivers and mechanics, Clerical Workers and other workers who keep t...