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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...

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, understanding dsca and thats defense support of civil authorities. Its the Guiding Principles for how our Armed Services are going to support civilians when something happens. And...

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 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...

Complicated. We dont understand under that structure normally. Its very important that my relief understands or 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 detail...

Future and we know its going to happen, we just dont know when, i sometimes tell my team were one day closer to the next disaster. I dont know when its going to be, but were one day closer. When that happens its unlikely that the people we exercised with are actually going to be the people who are responding. So knowing that, what are the top 3 things that you might share, your elevator speech, if you will. Rob mentioned institutional knowledge. What do you want to take and give to someone else when they come to San Francisco . And this is for our military participants. Captain houston . My re...