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[laughter] thanks, i appreciate your comments. And i am intrigued by those that you wrapped up within the decision they can process for the preparedness and the allocation of resources and you find it completely ad hoc and disjointed and one response to that is democracy. It is a messy process with the location resources done by things allocated by criteria that might not always be rational. That is the reality of the democracy and the testing of the responsibility and the political executive branch. You mentioned in terms of how to fix it in rationalizing the democracy i think that we could a...

Authorities utilize in terms of frequencies and wave forms and thats not something that we do every day as communicators. So it provides an opportunity for a more wellround ed case and i certainly got into that territory this year. Thank you. Theres definitely 3 things im going to hit hard with my relief. First is understand that c2 piece because it is 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...

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...

He can pull it right off the shelf if this ever happens and be ready to respond quickly instead of trying to figure this all out when we need to be getting underway. Ill boil mine down into 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 bene...

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...