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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...

Any disca planner understands that c2 piece. Second is understand the ics and then take the time to get the training. We put together a pretty robust Training Plan in preparation for this. We did the fema online course, eoc course at nasne, hadr course, trained with cal fire, take the time to take that training. Its tough to fit it in but its important to fit it in and it will make us more effective. We did an exercise back in may in preparation for this and developed a pretty detailed concept of operations. We built load plan, timelines, spare parts lists, we really got into the weeds, thinki...

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...

Just one, and that is i will pass to my relief to continue to support events like this and look for opportunities to continue to learn how we best in the military can integrate with our civilian and federal contemporaries to be prepared for an eventuality that we hope will never come, but we certainly should be prepared for. So the one thing im passing on is keep the momentum. Thank you, all. One other benefit that was cited in the after action review and also was mentioned today is the chance it meet someone else from the other agency. We also heard a lot about training, understanding ics, un...

Jennifer tonight were going to go straight to the state of michigan where more than 10,000 protestors descended on lansing, the capitol to raise their voices against harsh new antilabor laws. Right to work has got to go he wants to turn us around make 10 an hour, what are we going to do for our families . Jennifer preach it, sir. Despite the uproar outside the capitol, inside it, the Republicanled Legislature still passed righttowork legislation today. That legislation would muzzle the union voice in michigan by taking away the requirement that everyone whos in a union shop should pay union du...