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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 friends and neighbors. Sustainment is, its important to us and well maintain it especially on the region side. Were able to have these longstanding relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports th...

Friends and neighbors. Sustainment is, its important to us and well maintain it especially on the region side. Were able to have these longstanding relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the ongoing efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. Just to follow on that, the Navy Squadrons that provide Fire Fighting capability are a 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....

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...

Ill say thats unprecedented with any civilian Emergency Services agency going to a dod asset and having it engage in 4 hours. Commander, anything you want to share . More recently in 2012, two squadrons provided 3 aircraft and the notification process was approximately 2 to 3 hours. We have expanded the capability in the navy, as i said earlier, and that allows for that rapid surge response which was put to the test in august. On this most recent lightning complex fire, it was a little bit different for us as far as what happened there. Like cal fire wants to, just like we all do, is aggressiv...

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...