call it good because those assets may be gone and deployed but we have work arounds for that. we are looking forward to that as well in addition to the training. lastly is we again kind of relish the opportunity to participate in the operations against an active enemy. at least here, it's fire. we appreciate the fact we can go ahead and enter a tactical command air control. those are operations that are familiar to us and they are, it's a great exercise for us tactically as well. we are able to integrate with cal fire itself with the objective being the fire itself. those work out for us here and we can go ahead and use those skills forward as well. thank you very much, we appreciate the opportunity. >> thank you, i'd like to thank our panelists and open it up to our group for any questions of our panelists today. yes, sir, secretary.

>> there are a lot of things you can do in a forest that tend to make it easier it fight a fire like most importantly burning off the fuel during the wet season so there's less for the fire to feed on. to what extent in cal fire and all your other things do you encourage people to do things in their forest when you don't have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire? >> it's an excellent question, sir. we spend a large time in cal fire on public education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or vegetation management program in cal fire, we have a robust program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and

private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u.s. forest service. so two-fold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a public education stand point. what we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be self-sustaining and self-supporting. they need to be prepared. we try to educate them in respect that we say we'll provide the offense, you provide the defense. we talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure against wild land fires. a lot of it is public education, survivability, building standards, but predominately our focus is putting the onus on the land owner, putting the onus on the private property owner, we will attempt to protect your home but the days of staying and defending your home and killing our fire fighters are done. we will not stand and defend a

house that has not been prepared by a land owner and die for it. we don't do that any more. that's one of our doctrinal changes and we set forth some new guidelines with that. >> thank you. >> question, mr. secretary. >> in a large scale disaster relief, where the military is called in to assist the civilian components there is an obvious issue of how you get the command and control and in particular what telecommunications is used to support that command and control. your exercising together is very critical, i think, to working out command and control but you still have an equipment problem because the equipment, telecommunication equipment designed for the military was different from that used. how are you working out to get the coordination of telecommunications, particularly in disaster relief where the cellular infrastructure may be broken

down and not available to support? could you comment somehow are you going to work out this telecommunications problem. >> so from a perspective of fema, we not only have a defense officer appointed by dod embedded with us during a disaster but we actually practice and have communications interoperatability over our systems to be sure we can communicate with each other on similar platforms and also support state and local platforms, whether it was katrina or other events we've actually been able to bring in national guard platforms to provide 911 systems for cities that have lost those systems. we recently in the joplin tornados and also tuscaloosa tornados we brought in dod equipment to replace what was destroyed. from the fire side i know there's a lot of things you are doing to work around

the interoperatability issues with regard to communications between fire and dod and maybe if ray or anybody else wants to speak to that. >> our communications challenges still exist. we have excellent telecom communications, we have a layered effect of our radio systems. we have mobile command posts that we can exercise. so we're prepared for power outages, reduction of telecoms, we have a layered effect for our communications. but as everybody here said, we need help. if somebody here can help me get a navy or marine corps aircraft to talk to my guys on the ground tactically, i need that and i don't have that today. i use a command control helicopter, a civilian helicopter, to handle that and transfer that to an air to air victor frequency. but from a command control

perspective, we're fairly robust. are we perfect, no, but we do have layered defenses against that. >> miss yeager, i don't know if you want to say anything from a national guard perspective. >> we have some mobile explorable platforms we can send out to incidents to help provide additional infrastructure in the event everything breaks down then our units have organic communications capability so i can move that out and i can help reinforce cal fire on their incident with what i have in the aviation brigade and units through the state of california have that same communication but the iceu, which is a mobile communications platform, is ideal in events like this to push out to help. >> any other questions? >> i have one. back in 1992 when it was a big fire season and there was a lot of grass, they came to us and i was down

at camp pendleton and they asked us it train marines on shovel work. what happened about 6 months later, they ended up sending two battalions to yellowstone. i haven't heard any discussion at all, do you expect the military, the guard or the active forces to be training people to do shovel-like work? all you have talked about so far is aviation. >> one of the challenges with a ground-based attack and training a soldier to be a ground-based fire fighter is the training takes time. and it takes approximately 3 to 5 days of solid training to make sure that they are going to be working in a safe environment to learn what's going on. and most of the time that, the incidents in california will become mitigated. now, not to say that we certainly have that as an

option. we have a fairly robust what we call fire crew program using cdcr inmate fire fighters. it is on our radar and it's something that we have as a contingency if we needed to do it. >> lieutenant colonel. >> yes, general, in the mou it does address the ground portion but the focus of effort is mainly on the aviation side but it is built in there for the ground side if necessary. >> i just want to say in 2008 we did activate hand crews to fight fires and we've identified soldiers throughout the state to respond if needed. they've got the tools that they need, the boots and all that cached and available. it's really just a matter of getting the call and being ready to go. >> i was going to end with general myat. i know we've

trained soldiers to do that kind of thing. after the colorado fires just recently they did put a lot of soldiers that trained, so we do still have that program who can do that if the need warrants. any other questions from out there before i turn it over to general myat? let me thank our panel here. >> thank you. (applause). as we leave here today, we need to keep the ball moving forward. we can't -- i think most of us all here would agree, we really can't prevent the next disaster from happening. but by building the

partnerships that we are here today and will continue to build in the future, we can certainly limit the number of deaths and long-term destruction. we can surge a lot of things: resources, people. but we cannot surge trust. so venues such as this is what helps us build that trust so that when the bell does go off we know -- a comment i made yesterday and i'd like to use it again in closing today, the most important thing for me to come out of this two-day seminar and sbat -- into the future is the ability for us to physically face to face look each other in the eye, shake hands and say to each other, we are in this together. thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

. (applause). >> thank you, admiral beeman. you have helped me carry out one of the instructions secretary schultz gave to me 3 years ago, bring the fleet back to fleet week. we couldn't do it without you. i thank secretary and mrs. perry for coming, just -- i know it's, you've got some other things, people are waiting on you right now but i really appreciate you coming here. of course secretary and mrs. schultz for the entire program. vice admiral nathan, i don't know if he's here, he may have gone already, but he gave a great talk yesterday on the medical side. and vice admiral z, coast guard, our

senior rep here, i can never pronounce his name but he's made things great. general speese, thank you for making this happen. rear admiral hubner, he was here, he's been terrific working with us. rear admiral rivera coming up from the chilean navy, thank you so much. i learned a lot. we need the kind of input that we got from you, really, and we thank you so much. i would be remiss not to mention the two people that really are responsible for all this. first was lewis loeven. lewis loeven works hours and hours to do this. thank you so much. but the other is because she's committed to make it happen and it's her focus that always to learn from everything that happens, ann koninberg at

dem, thank you so much, ann, for everything you do. you had to have a pass to get on the ship. i've asked captain pringle, to get off the ship, i wonder if you can secure the hatch until they fill out their participant form. if you could do that, i would appreciate that. fleet week, we are a neutral convener of the process to improve the relation ships between this global force for good and the local civilian officials. and one of our goals is next time you put up your slide with all those logos on it, general, you are going to have the san francisco fleet week logo on it, too. i look at what we accomplished in 2010, we had a meeting to

understand dsca, in 2011 we had the table top exercise, we debriefed that, we had a great speaker then we had an education seminar. this time, this year we had a functional exercise in august which was terrific, you saw the panel, a medical exercise as part of fleet week and you saw the enthusiasm of the participants, then we had the back brief. now we've had a strategic operational and tactical discussions about going forward and the things that we can accomplish. so what are you going to do in 2013? well, fill out the form and tell us what you think we ought to do but we're going to be working hard to move this forward. i think ray cheney said it from cal fire best today: we are all better off because we're in here for the last day and a half and i'm sitting here wondering, all my contemporaries, what have they been doing for the last 36 hours? they haven't been doing

anything near as important as what we've been doing. i thank all of you so much for participating and stay in touch. if we've got your email address you will never be lonely because we're going to get you back here next year. thank you all so much. (applause).

>> we very pleased that mayor lee is here today and building is strong foundation for the future of the airport and now my pleasure to introduce mayor lee. thank you john and thank you to you and the airport commission and all the staff here at the airport for loopholes working hard to make sure this engine of opportunity is for everybody. i'm joined by representative from congresswoman thank you for

being here and, of course, richard our commissioners is here as well and than mr. mac who is part of the labor council. i think we'll have quilts from the board of supervisors from both couldn't. you know something we despair a little bit over jobs. they get to continue bragging they have is an unemployment rate lower than ourselves but that's because the airport is booming. and everybody's is investing in this year. looking behind me it's always been about peculiar i know this airport is a huge generate of work a huge amount of folks come

there here and it's a big asset. not too many months ago we opened up terminal two and i & i've often said it feels like a first class lobby. johnny ask when i do the red eyes a lot of your goat to have those jogging art stations open after 10 but that will mean more jobs. and i will say that this $4.1.10 year capital plan is yet again another strong strong demonstration of our airports thinking ahead. it's an airport that's on water so it continually has to update

itself and deal with seawall rise sea level rise. it has to build new facilities. the airport runways have to be invested in and the buildings themselves whether we get a new control tower oreo do the old terminal it looks like all terminals feel the same way. john did a fabulous job in making sure our labor forces throughout the area feel directly involved. it's a humanely economical engine you'll say that billion dollars and the new buildings

but the $14. billion will have a large number of the construction jobs and the engineering designing jobs as well as the concession vendors that reflect the diversity of our airport. i like coming to the airport when i'm traveling more and more those days and others for the america's cup and the data breakers and all the different summer events many, many thousands of people will come through the airport. it's modern and save and has the highest level of technology and safety for everyone.

we keep that for most in our minds as we approach the modernization. i'm detailed to mountains this i had a 10 year infrastructure plan for the city and once we get those plans out then the conversation starts to get to the place where the airport is one of the biggest investments. our airport dpements with every visitor who comes here they feel welcome and you see that reflected in the signage. a 10 year capital plan means we

have articulated for our immediate year we have the investments and the other cities around the bay area we're invest in this very great asset. same thing we do with our water system and our great art institutions. we plan ahead and involve everybody and get them to buy into our assets and the whole region. i want to thank the commission and the staff, of course, and their corpse partners as well. i want to thank you all the other city agencies that come together whether it's police and fire we see working here very much alive in the evolution of safety on the water or runways. everybody has to work together

on these and i know once you review the details you'll see how investment friendly and the future of the airport come alive as the great innovation capita of the united states. thank you, very much john for your work (clapping) >> thank you, mayor lee. as the mayor i said we're going to take the t e levels in the airport to create that experience in terminal 1, 2, and 3 and making an international terminal had opened. when this opened in 2011 it became a stated for airports worldwide that has conveniences unique amenity like the yogurt

room. it has $14.50 per passenger. we want to continue to make those improvements for the convenience of travelers. boarding area e we're here right now and this will opulence a year from now. and it will handle united airlines. we're going to improve the center checkpoint in terminal 3 and expand the front gate as well. shortly after the competition of

this building we're going to do terminal b. terminal one will be valve improved and fanned and the t two experience will be carried throughout the whole airport. we look for the lobby area to be improved. we're very pleased as well to be moving forward on a four-star hotel 4 hundred rooms the air train system has been designed to stop right in front of the a bordering area the same area

where the hilton used to be. and this project will be completed in three to four years. i want to thank the staff for putting this together so quickly. and it insures a high-level of performance and thank you to the staff who helps to us make this large investment. and thank you as well to our labor partners bill knapp we have an outstanding relationship to insure that labor is

continued on the big projects. we have an excellent partner with our strong supporter and here chief of staff is here >> good morning. i'm brian i'm the district chief for our congresswoman. we offered mr. bart's the opportunity to reschedule this but our congress woman says thank you, mayor lee we have to recognize this is the congress woman's great pleasure to represent those areas. and thank you to the airport director john martin she

considers him brilliant. she wanted phone calls to know this new decade will see the airport for having seen for travelers. there will be a nice hotel and it will make san francisco airport itself is great designation. it will create jobs and this has a massive ripple effect on the area. we know we think the airport is always under construction that's because the economy is changing. this will be your decade in the sun congratulations. (clapping) >> thank you brian, of course, the - i'm sorry the airport is owned by the city and county of

70 but we're a strong partnership. we're happy supervisor pine is here to say a few words. supervisor >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be here in the county to talk about the renovation of this incredible airport. on behalf of the county board of supervisors we couldn't be more satisfied with this airport. it's a key xhieconomical engine. as the airport expands tens of thousands of our citizens work here and we're thrilled to see the airport modernize.

also i need to speak on behalf of the regional. i think we're all aware with the global competition the bay area has to compete with other airports. i don't see many airports like san francisco international. we're one of the few airports in the nation that are keeping pace with our competitors. i thank the city for your forsythe in making sure we can compete internationally. and finally one request we should say welcome to