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Instructor. She completed a 7month deployment. Captain Mike Napolitano is serving with the navys expedition training group. While deployed in 2004, he spearheaded Maritime Patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as Commanding Officer of the expeditionary training group. This is a fabulous panel and i know youre going to appreciate what they have to say. Rear admiral, i think youll start. First of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to San...

Group. While deployed in 2004, he spearheaded Maritime Patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as Commanding Officer of the expeditionary training group. This is a fabulous panel and i know youre going to appreciate what they have to say. Rear admiral, i think youll start. First of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to San Francisco fleet week, particularly to admiral Gary Roughhead for being invited to participate in this senior seminar...

Them into a confrontation with the United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Security strategy is that unambiguous commitment, and i believe that the u. S. Navy is capable of maint...

The asia pacific region. Secondly, that we would maintain freedom of access throughout that region. In particular, we would maintain the sea lanes in that area, whatever the challenge might be. Even as we reduce our defense budget, therefore we must maintain and would maintain a powerful navy, and that that navy would be charged with maintaining the freedom of those sea lanes. We had, of course, to be concerned as to whether there would be a challenge for that. We observed that the rise and shine has more energy needs for more energy than they can produce themselves, and to maintain the Econom...

Program of exercise we conducted. The exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. During the time i was secretary, we had a Disaster Response very similar to the one theyre doing here in San Francisco today. We bought naval forces from the United States, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. And these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising how to respond and alleviate that disaster. Well, that was then. How about now . Last year the United...