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Combination of active and reserve components. One benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in the squadrons. You may have people who have been there for 6, 7 years and have seen multiple fires. That mutual trust is absolutely essential to this capability. A couple things that come it mind real briefly, were talking about wild and land fires primarily but rest assured amongst the group here were always thinking in an all rest capacity. Cal fires mission is we are the states fire department. We are thinking about all Risk Missions whether its fire, flood, natural or man made dis...

Recognizes that you great folks have a primary mission, thats defense of the nation and we respect that and we understand this is an ancillary job and there is a high revel of rotation of people coming back from afghanistan or iraq, whatever the case may be, but we also reach out to squadron level training. It really comes down to meeting with your cooperating agencies and training together on a frequent basis and having good and open dialogue. As i look back at that map here, knowing we were heading into that time of year where were going to hit significant fire weather and knowing Northern C...

Specifically with regard to when we Start Talking about air ops and moving air resources around, how do we ensure that we have that interoperatability that we discussed so much yesterday between the different components. Can you hear me now . Perfect. It all begins with preplanning and Strategic Planning ahead of time. How our agreements at a local level were born was out of the 2003 cedar fire. The cedar fire was about 280,000 acres. As an example, i have the dubious distinction of being one of the first chief officers at the scene of that incident. Just to give you an idea, at peak the cedar...

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...

Yesterday, we are here for the long time. On the installation side which we coordinate with cal fire and the navy we have annual exercise and we hit that every springtime prior to the fire season. I think whats also, its important to remember that although it was stressed, the military members are members of the community as well so lets not forget that as far as active duty. Although were transient in nature, sometimes were in deployment, many of us are home owners and we live in that community. We are part of that community as well. Just like the guard, we have an interest in protecting our ...