one of our panelists is up here, second from your left, rob dudgeon, he's with the department of emergency management and he's the director of emergency services. rob's organization has been instrumental in creating the program that we have from back in 2010 all the way through to today and i know in the future we're already talking about putting together a hot wash of everything we've learned through 2012's fleet week. so rob is going to talk about the van, turkey mission. from turkey we have rear admiral guereva he has more than 14 years sea-going experience serving across various frigates. he assumed command of the suband joint command, chilean joint chief. he has been promoted to the rank of rear admiral. nita demato, serving as a major, she actually has a dual career. as a reservist she's also a professional educator and she's currently serving as a congressional fellow in the office of bob casy of pennsylvania focusing on the appropriations in budget for veterans and rebalancing services for future engagements but really what we're going to hear from her is an amazing story about the

next to come up and speak will be rob dudgeon, the director of the emergency services division. >> good morning again. i'm going to talk about a story of people. it's not really going to be a story of geology and the earth moving and statistics. it's going to be about the people and it's going to be about the lessons that we've learned and what we took away from that. i wish i could say that the small graup of us went to van, turkey, and did something heroic and changed their lives. i really can't say that. but i can say they changed ours. the lessons we brought back from there will benefit our greater community more than i ever thought would be the case when we detarted. to go back and start a little bit at the beginning of how this even came to pass because it's typically not a mission of a city to go to an international destination. we've got a state department, we've got the military, we've got a lot of organizations at the federal level that do this all the time. so it seems a little bit of a one-off for a city to be involved. but when i say it's a story of people and a story of co

rob dudgeon at one point mentioned that's how people know what's happening, communicating via their cell phones about what's happening. but i personally think that has a limited application, right? so when cell phone towers are not working any more and we i think had a blackout in san diego last year, last fall, cell phones weren't working. so social media i think can help and may work and you can get through populations that way, but i think it will be important to know that also has its limitations and at one point that goes. that's when you need to thank back-up communications and that's where the military can also be a force multiplier. >> from the department of emergency management perspective, we have a phenomenal social media team that gets information out over multiple channels using facebook and twitter. we also have an alert sf system that we use that disseminates information just about the helicopter landing during yesterday's exercise, so we have those tools in place and just for your point, i think that would be a really great thing to add even to the communications drill, w