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Commander steve everett, to his left Lieutenant Colonel dana, marine corps installation west. Thank you. Let me go ahead and start off by talking a little bit and just going back over some of the discussions yesterday that i think are going to play into this discussion. We had vice admiral beeman talk a little bit yesterday about capabilities and vice admiral zunkoff talked about partnerships, unity of effort, unity of command. Mayor lee talked about dod efforts, expertise, Community Efforts and as we go into all those discussions today you will see best practices applied during the 10 years f...

We also had the humanitarian assistance coordination center. Thats the place we were able to take the nongovernmental agencies and the hoetion Nation International agencies and have them interacting and coordinating with the military folks so that we were able to provide an understanding of how we all work together. So if you want additional information, if you want to talk to captain napalitano, he is the Commanding Officer for the expeditionary training group, and he is the in charge of the people that train and certify that Crisis Response Adaptive Force package. His folks also put together...

Is reset our vetting process, put more bio metrics in and ensure that we are Standing Shoulder to shoulder with the afghans as they try to build and then we teach the afghans to help themselves. And i think thats where were going to see our success down the road. Thank you. applause . Thank you, barry, now its Lieutenant Commander serrano and captain napalitano good morning, everyone, im pleased to be here today to tell you about an exercise we conducted this past summer in hawaii as part of rim of pacific exercise which involved 22 participating nations and this offered us a venue to be able ...

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...

Jennifer. >> general dunford, what did you alert the white house? there's indications that they did not know until ten hours after the attack began. also, there's members on capitol hill, members of the armed services committee that said that we didn't know we had troops in niger is. that -- >> two separate questions. we notified the white house as soon as we had a soldier that was missing. that was the first report. they would have received an initial report, probably simultaneous the way it works with our ops centers, we had three killed in action. and then we had a soldier that was missing ...