we are staffing personnel at the various eoc's. we have said seven or eight of our emergency response vehicles to the area, and will begin damage assessment of each individual home to assess the needs of the victims of the fire. we have caseworkers who will start those interviews beginning today, and we are also sending from the six counties our disaster mental health service specialist to help out in that area. it people are concerned about the well-being of their family or friends, they can register themselves at our safe and well website, or they can call 1-800- red-cross and file their information about their concerned parties there. mayor newsom: appreciate that. you have another site that was set up for city employees. >> yes, so for san francisco employees as well as residents, it is called sf gives back, and that can be found at our city's official website. recovery is the long, hard road. people have lost their homes and probably all their possessions, so this is a long-term effort, never short term. that is why we set up

staffing? the breakdown of the district's -- >> i did have a question. the bilingual personnel section of that, i am glad you provided us with that. it shows an awareness of the language needs. i wanted to get information about that. there is a very large asian population and southeast asian population. how does that work for your district? do you have a need for more bilingual officers? how is the language access policy work? >> there is always a need for bilingual officers. that includes french and german because of tourists. we have two. wanna is a driver. -- one is a driver. we have a mandarin-speaking one. cantonese. we would like to get a couple more of those, if we could. our numbers always could be better, especially -- we are in the cambodian -- in this community, that is more of a need for us. we do have one japanese that is not up there, also. >> how are you able to address those needs? cambodian, it is harder to get that language. >> i had some women, mothers come in the office. we had someone translate. there was a problem in a building. there was a question about

think what we will find is a dramatic growth in civilian personnel, pentagon, and other places, and i think we will also see a dramatic growth in staffing of the ratio becoming less and less altamonte to save the least. would you agree that that is pretty much the case? >> yes, i do, senator. we have several stocks that have grown, and the impact of force is it ages the force. it consolidates a lot of the leadership activities and headquarters away from the battlefields. it tends to be layered, and that is what we're after. >> is it might be helpful to motivate some sort of action to show us how that growth has been, posted actual number of four fighters -- number of war fighters. >> thanks pas to secretary gates for initiating this series of moves, which i support. the fact is we are asking more of our military than we have been quite a while with the combination of being involved in the war against islamism the stream is them, managing relations with the rising and more assertive china, and a host of other problems. the fact is that we are already facing a squeeze where we are not giving the military all that they need, and therefore,

personnel, pentagon and other places. and i think we're also going to see a dramatic growth in staffing and the tooth to tail ratio becoming less and less optimum to say the least. would you agree that's pretty much the case, general cartwright? >> yes, i do, senator. we have several staff that have grown and the impact on the forces that ages the force, it consolidates a lot of our activities, the leadership activities and headquarters away from the battlefield and tends to be layered and that's what we're after. >> i think it would be helpful to us and motivate some kind of action if you showed us how dramatic that growth has been as opposed to the actual number of war fighters on the battlefield or in the ocean or in the air. i thank you. >> senator lieberman. >> thanks to the three of you for being here. thanks to secretary gates for initiating this series of moves which i support, the fact we're asking our more military than we have in quite a while with the combination of being involved in the war against islamic extremism and managing our relations with a rising and more assertive china and a host of other problems.