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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...