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Theres many different ways of doing things. So we would be out there telling the afghans, this is how you conduct police operations, this is how we do police training, this is how you hold your weapon and engage the enemy, and then several weeks later another force would come in and not that it was necessarily wrong, but it was different. So from the afghan perspective, incredibly frustrating to understand where they are going and what they need to be doing and what is right and what is wrong. So in closing if someone were to ask me from 2010 to where were at now, is there hope i would say, ye...

Was trying to be sure we took people and spent time with the Police Officers themselves. We probably spent way too much too much emphasis on contractors early on and the problem with that was we would send our Contractor Force out, they may have been the only people out there doing the training, and what would happen when the threat increase took place, the contractors would remain on the safety of the compound. This could go on for days or weeks. The frustration came from the afghans because they relied on that training on a daily basis. So the person that was with them training them may not ...

Medical patients and that also showed a great partnership. This is the Health Care Association for hawaii and this is the part of the agency that helped us coordinate the medical response part of this. They were able to conduct a 50bed Disaster Medical Assistance Team hospital on the island of oahu and this allowed the state of hawaii to be able to exercise their statewide disaster drill. One of the things that hawaii has never been able to do is to be able to practice together in one live exercise. They have all of their processes, how theyre going to respond in a local disaster situation, bu...

Channels to be able to open it up for maritime traffic in the bay. This part, this event, was the satellite, construction of a satellite medical facility. Some of our military capability is we have the right engineers and people that can go in and rebuild infrastructure and support. So one of the things they did during this exercise, they actually went in there for about a weeklong event and actually constructed a building and this also helps us it restore capability to wherever we are responding to. This shows a lot of different response here. This is our urban search and rescue event that wa...

Governors Blue Panel Commission report looked at also a lot of those kind of things and what i did was just put a picture up there to show you the 2007 wild fires. When we get to these major wild fires, were talking about multiple wild fires and almost what you would call a fire storm. A lot of the Lessons Learned there are in bullets from just 2007. Why this discussion is important and Lessons Learned up there, the 2007 fires burned a little over 500,000 acres, destroyed over 3200 structures and caused 10 fatalities. So why this is important, as you start to read the fire weather reports that...