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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>I hold the EOC seat for Military Support to
Civilian Authority and have done so for multiple years, being an active
participant during hurricanes, disaster drills and even ran the Logistics
Staging Area when FL had back to back hurricanes. This came from contacts
just as you are describing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>CAP got plaudits from the truckers who transport
food, water and ice. One driver said, "Your operation is one of the
smoothest and most professionally run I have ever seen, and I've been doing this
for a long time. I think he said 40 years, but I can't be sure of
the time length.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>We used ICS forms and contacted the Emergency
Manager (EM) for the county on a regular basis. By the end of the day, all
the bills of lading, conversations with the EM and other support staff were not
only logged, but printed out and delivered to the EM within 30 minutes of the
operation shut down. They had hard copies printed out showing what
went where, who took it, and when it was deployed. At one time we had 150
Tractor Trailer Rigs on the yard of a former citrus plant.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>It worked exceedingly well. The biggest
amount of fun I got was having National Guard Officers drop in to tell me that
they were former CAP Cadets and were pleased to see the professionalism and
involvement of my support staff.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>The funniest thing I can recall was one cadet who
wore glasses was given a safety briefing concerning forklifts, and the
routes they would take into and out of a huge freezer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>As he came out of the freezer, his glasses fogged
over so I added an additional warning about fog appearing out of nowhere during
the day. He looked at me with a serious expression, until I told him to
wipe the condensation off of his glasses, then he enjoyed the laugh that the
other cadets were giving him. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>You can't work too closely with sister
agencies. Our people MUST be consummate professionals and provide
more effort than anyone else in order to be respected for the job that volunteer
professionals can do for the other organizations. They will put you in all sorts
of positions once they know they can trust you to do things the right
way</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>Keep up the good work!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>David M. Moseley, Lt. Colonel, CAP</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>ESF 13 Chair for the Lake County FL</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Cupid>EOC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 06, 2013 6:49 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [PAO] CAP and disaster relief.</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>How about back to Tom's orginal question?<BR><BR>At my local sq
at Palo Alto, California, we are having an all-hands participation in our local
airport open house Sept 29. We park our plane and recruiting booth smack between
the local pilot/airport association host of the day's events and our
city's fire and police force. We do static line patrol and provide a cadet
color guard for an opening ceremony. Often the local Red Cross and USCGAux
comes thanks to many, many invites to them from CAP over the years and when they
show up, we set up very close to them. We make a lot of useful
swapped-biz-card contacts. For example, a few years ago our city police
battle wagon programmed in key radio contact freqs with CAP.<BR><BR>We also
participate on a n annual ground SAR exercise with out local county sheriff SAR
team woch are always actove in local disasters.<BR><BR>So.... last year when the
city battle wagon was dipatched to help with Occupy Oakland, CAP radio freqs
were primed and ready to go if needed by local cops whpw first hand our
capabilities and call-out procedures. Sometimes the best training and
relationship building is done at community events like airport open houses and
Red Cross disaster preparedness events.<BR><BR>Cheers to
all,<BR>Alice<BR><BR>>>September is national Disaster Preparedness
Month. I was just curious about<BR><BR>>>How many PAO’s are writing
articles about how their wings are/have been training to address local disaster
response.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>>Tom Traver<BR>
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