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Families. May they all rest in peace. May their memories be a blessing. Lets not also forget the fact the doctors, the nurses, the other medical personnel who are risking their lives right now to save lives and all the other men and women who are also risking their lives to simply help all of us get through this coronavirus pandemic. I think i speak for all of our viewers here in the United States and around the world, we are so grateful to all of them. Inside the e. R. , the incredible fight against the coronavirus starts right now. Its a disaster of bibly call proportions. The moment that so...

Helps countries get ready for epidemics. Go through a couple things here, initially, what appears to be clear, doctor, we need to know where the virus is and where it is not. And we cannot do that until we have a test. Isnt that at the heart of where we are today, sir . There are a few things that we urgently have to do, and everyone has a really Important Role to play. Testing is crucially important, and we are seeing testing come up with commercial Companies Like abbott coming into the game and getting test kits out there. We are seeing hospital laboratories develop their own tests now that ...

Us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other responses . I wanted to touch can you hear me now . I wanted to touch on that last topic as far as the command control because what we have here in the marine corps is similar to the navy. We have the installation, the regional installation command and also partners with the operational foresite. We allow the operational foresight, we...

Operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at least under operational response, maintains with the operators. The third aircraft wing maintains operational control but we send our operatives out to be controlled by the civic sight. Were comfortable with that and thats matured a lot in the last couple years. Talked a lot about command and control and agreements and moving resources. One other question that came up yesterday we were discussing yesterday is how do communications occur specifically with regard to when we Start Talking about air ops and moving air resources around...

About how is the National Guard and dod resources and capabilities integrated into the command and control at the fire and also the supporting ops centers whether it be the gac or other centers down there. Maybe our military personnel can talk about that, or ray. Its important to note that we are the supporting effort to cal fire and we get called in when they are basically out of assets. We are working for cal fire, they are the incident commanders, we follow their coordination, typically were the last ones in and the first ones out. We do have an ongoing relationship with cal fire, im in con...