and the answer is the navy is required to remove any levels above background. and you can have levels very high above background and not be a health concern. and that's the disconnect that people don't quite understand. in this case, as i said, all the areas that they surveyed, they haven't found anything above background. but if you did, would it necessarily be a hazard today or to any residents? so, when the navy does their scans and they very carefully move soil around and scan some more and scan some more, they might find an area above background and they are required to clean that up. and, so, for those areas they are working in these purple areas here called the solid waste disposal areas and they have found some contamination there and they are required to clean it up. those areas are inaccessible and fenced off. so, they are doing their work and they are required to do that. and the reason they are required to do that is that in the future they want to release those areas and be able to say there is nothing there, there are no problems, nothing above bac

and the port to allow the navy to execute the first phase of the dry dock disposal project. so, first, very brief bit of history on the dry dock. it was constructed in 1942 for the world war ii shipbuilding and ship prepare effort. it was in use for over 50 years, finally due to excessive wear and tear declared unfit for service in 1999. as a bit of visual history, the photo in the background was taken shortly after in 2003 when the dry dock broke loose of its moorings and landed on treasure island. the picture you see there is dry dock number 1 inside of dry dock number 2, being lifted out of the water to be serviced. >> can you talk [speaker not understood], this is how far. >> where is it located now? >> yes. >> it has been at pier 50 adjacent to the maintenance shed for about eight weeks now. we needed to relocate it from pier 80 free up that space for america's cup activity there. >> thank you. >> over the years beginning in 1999, port staff have attempted to divest ourselves of this asset. starting off with putting it u

of the department of the navy. when they served assurer to the army bishop of the regulation of the army and eventually in 1832? became a separate service inside the department. >> out of their mission change? >> commission didn't change so much then. there've been ship cards offer to the 20th century, but they were something of a jack of all trades. they would do other jobs as well, most often serving as landing parties in the navy would send sailors on punitive expeditions, the marines would always participate in that. in the start of the 20th century company took on a variety of other missions, colonial infantry in haiti, philippines, nicaragua and before world war ii, they started creating amphibious landing forces. they became experts in amphibious operations. >> what was the marine corps' reputation throughout much of this? history???????? >> not very good quite honestly? everybody thinks about the marine corps today is the most? procedures or elite of the majo? armed services and has? been?? valida

that was before the navy came in there and after the navy came in there. a lot of fishing was close to 1,000 fishing boat was grounded and it was part of our job to put them in the water again. so heavy lift cranes are absolutely mandatory to have a safe place to move them and to start working. and because as i mentioned to you before, the ships cannot be, get into the port directly, so we make, we pier side two ships floating and all transfer of the cargo was through (inaudible) as you can see we deliver that assistance to different coastal communities. we use the marines to do that so no problem. as you see in the photograph below, you can see that the only way to get it in there was with rubber boats, not any more with the lft's that you used to or we used to get into. so we act, we are participating very active for 23 days, 18 of that at sea with these numbers. and that was what we did. in terms of lessons learned, as admiral nathan said, no one is prepared for an event of such magnitude, so you have to take many things in account but with a guitar in

of the department the navy. and eventually in 1832 to become properly a separate service inside the department. >> host: how did their mission change? >> guest: domitian didn't change so much that. they remained all the way to the 20th century, but they were something of a jack of all trades. they would do other jobs as well, most often serving as landing parties when the navy would send sailors and marines ashore in punitive expeditions. the marines for anticipating that. and the start of the 20th century they took on a variety of other nations, calling out infantry in haiti, philippines and nicaragua and just before world war ii, they started creating amphibious landing forces. they became experts in landing against suspended islands. ? host: what was the marine?? corps' reputation throughout ?ch of its history??? ? guest: not very good quite?? honestly.????????? everyone thinks about the marin? corps today ?is the most???? prestigious or elite of the major armed?? services.?? that has

captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as commanding officer of the expeditionary training group. this is a fabulous panel and i know you're going to appreciate what they have to say. rear admiral, i think you'll start. >> first of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to san francisco fleet week, particularly to admiral gary roughhead for being invited to participate in this senior seminar. it's a privilege for me to be here and to share with you the experience that we had just during and after the earthquake that we had in chile in february 27, 2010. most of the lessons learned that i'm going to show here to you is part of your concern and i'm very glad you are taking that in account so i think you are absolutely in the right path. anyway, it's a massive event that you always have t

to have for our residents is a retrospective study dating from the 1950s to the current time of the navy handover about those residents who lived on the island because there's enough anecdotal material to state that these people have cancer issues. they have leukemias and they're dying of cancer. and, so, it seems to me that we need to either get uc or one of the uc campuses, we need to get the navy to release these information, perhaps we have to get congresswoman pelosi involved. perhaps we have to get lieutenant governor newsome involved and perhaps willie brown. but it seems to me there needs to be some study. there also needs to be something done for the residents who are currently here who are experiencing a disease process that can't be figured out. and, so, it would be really quite helpful if we could get these issues taken care. of. >> thank you. thank you, ms. rapoport. actually initially i did give two minutes. i'm comfortable extending it to three minutes given the issues this brings up. thank you. >>> hi, my name is vanessa jackson. and the concern i have is that at least ba

na their job was to be ship's guard and also snipers buthe they are a very small part of the navy. >> host: and the marine corps is completed the separate service? >> inside the navy but it was contentious. they've good claim they should follow the navy and ashore follow thearmy, d regulations of the army. they eventually 1832 they are a separate service inside the >> navy. >> host: how did the mission changed? of >> guest: dave remained ships guards to the 20thng as century but jack of alles trade most often as a landing party when the baby on would send silly it -- sailors and marines would participate.phibiousanding then colonial infantry inood. haiti, nicaragua, haiti, nicaragua, philippine about before world war ii started training for amphibious missions. >> host: what is the marine corps is reputation? >> not very good. c people think of them as the elite that has been validated routinely. most critique -- prestigious but a at the start of world war ii parents found them to be the most desirable. the least popular and io nationwide study.these were similar also prior. the third

we've been increasing the size of the navy under president obama. but moreover i think this was the president's point in the debate about horses and bayonets is that it's really not a valid'

so after post-cedar fire, we recognized the navy had assets and the marine had assetness region that we should capitalize on, so i was tasked by my chief to organize a local letter of agreement so that we could, with the objective, essentially, was to streamline access to dods assets in rapid fashion and by rapid i mean within hours. if we're dealing with the level of incident that i just described, the cedar fire was essentially over in 12 hours. it started about 5:00 that night, it actually took off and started running at 11:00 at night, by 9:00 that morning it was at the gates of marine corps station miramar and it was essentially stopped. dska is an excellent tool but we needed to go a rapid route, which is ir we'll talk about training later, but that's a big component. and the colonel hit on a good part about we use persistent forecasting and weather forecasting to look at when we have these fire weather red flag warning stand in the wind events. i start reaching out to my counterparts with third fleet and lieutenant colonel demigan giving them a heads up. we (inaudible) navy an

the ma reaps are tied to the? navy and supposed expertise is amphibious operations. if that's true, why is general? john allen, united states marine corp., the top commander of all nato and coalition troops in?? afghanistan??? perhaps thee single most?? landlocked country in the world? with the possible exception of? chad? the reason is the marines have? expanded the mission set and role in national defense so,?? yes, it doesn't seem right. why are they calledded ma reaps if they -- marines if they fight in the middle of afghanistan. >> host: why do you call the?? book "underdog"??? >> guest: marines call?? themselves devil dogs from world war i, but, really, the best term to describe how the marines thought of themselves is under dogs. they were always a minority culture, just a very small institution inside the larger defense establishment, and they've always felt, from their beginnings to be persecuted and under risk, under threat, under siege by the army and navy who they worried would attempt to reduce their numbers, funding, or abolish them outr

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 maintain those but then we coordinate, cooperate, with the operational foresight once the call comes in for support. so we're able to do that obviously through memorandum of understandings and we have agreements and our wing operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at least under operational response, maintains with the operators. the third aircraft wing maintains operational control but we send our operatives out to be controlled by the civic sight. we're comfortable with that and that's matured a lot in the last couple years. >> talked a lot about command and control and agreements and moving resources. one other question that came up yesterday we were discussing yesterday is how do communications occur specifically with regard to when we start talking about air ops and moving air resources around, how do we ensure t

you have the department of navy. you have department of toxic substance and control. and you also have the california department of public health. in addition, you also have the usepa involved, environmental protection agency. tida has hired an independent, which is independent of all to help us review the data. at the end of the day, all these regulatory agencies, the data that they produced, they have to be brought to the attention of the public as you, supervisor kim, your first hearing of treasure island. you invited all the regulatory agencies. they are working very independently of each other. let me stress, the navy is working independently from the department of toxic substance, from the epa. and, so, for the assurances that we need, for the city and county of san francisco, we also have the san francisco city and department of public health, barbara garcia, amy, [speaker not understood] working independently. so, we have the balance that we need in order for us to obtain the date a. all we wanted to convey to the public is that the city and county of san franc

i completely understand the navy has only certain due diligence to perform. but to really address the concerns that people have, it's unreasonable from my speaker speculative to expect us to take it on faith when people say, okay, the survey was done and there's nothing -- you know, nothing further that we can do or nothing further we are going to do because it doesn't appear that there are any issues. * perspective that's not syncking up to us and we have a hard time believing that's the only answer, that's a viable answer for us to make a decision about our families, about our children, about our own health. i'm concerned for all the people that live there, for all the people that lived there in the past whose histories, whose health risk histories have to be accessible at some level. there have been newspaper reports who have interviewed those people or people who remain living who had many friends who died of various things and have lived out there as well. thank you. >> thank you. >>> hi, my name is cianda connolly and i stand here with my.er and a group

the smallest navy we've had before this came under the bush administration and the obama administrationas grown that navy. third, if you accepted all those things, you ought to recognize as well that while the bush administration has been committed to reduction in many of those people who were advisors to president bush also were advisors to governor romney, those same people are now complaining about a navy in which president obama increased the number of ships and has plans for bringing those ships above 300 and has budgeted for that. it's not a plausibly defensible position so to distract from it, then the proponents of that position go on and say what about sequestration. in the future, things will get worse. but in fact, in the future, the president has said he's not in favor of sequestration. he will oppose it. he was very clear about that in the context of the debates, and we have congressman ryan as you pointed out voting for it. in fact, a majority of republicans in the house voting for it. so i think the effort is one which undercuts the reality. the reality is we have the str

and we had absolutely first-class leadership in the navy. you will hear later today from admiral gary some examples of just how impressive that leadership is. the operational readiness of the fleet was a result, first of all, of having bases all around the world. but secondly because the strong program of exercise we conducted. the exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. during the time i was secretary, we had a disaster response very similar to the one they're doing here in san francisco today. we bought naval forces from the united states, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. and these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising how to respond and alleviate that disaster. well, that was then. how about now? last year the united states released a new security strategy. most of you probably have not even heard of that, but i have to tell you this was a big deal. it was one of the fifth am

you may know is the four star navy admiral. he took over from admiral olson, and one of the things admiral mccraveen said there was some classified or sensitive information in the book, and it's really important we keep that classified and sensitive information secret so that we can protect other navy seals when they conduct these operations in the future. i think the other people that people in the seal community feel is that -- it's obviously fine to write other book. my friend mark has written a book, chris, other navy seals who have written books to let people know about the force that they are supporting, but this particular book was about an operation that was a team operation. and i think that the concern was, this was something that an entire team did, and because it was a team operation, if the story was going to come out, should be a story from the team rather than from just one person. that was kind of some of my reflections on the book thus far. >> did you have a question here? yes? okay. yes, sir. >> first, i want t

these other options here top wise 80 aepre, nav sea, the navy would start to fund them before they're out of the $3 million. we would be forced to go to a sole source contracting vehicle for those. so, i didn't mean to get too much into the wave there. it gets complicated in phase ii and 3. that is the the subject of the resolution that is before you. so, the purpose of the m-o-u is my favorite shout out, by the way, just a side-view. the m-o-u nav sea and titan salvage dry dock number one to begin phase 1 of the work. it gives them something to point to, lest the coast guard a excuse them of stealing it when they toe it to pier 50 of the shipyard. that is also the vehicle that is going to contain the release of liability which is important piece of this. the navy will not proceed without it because salvage operations are inherently risky and if, you know, salvages sometimes sink during tow and they won't be held responsible for that. so, the resolution -- the m-o-u that we would be signing -- sorry, the resolution rather gives us based authority with the [speaker not understood] mana

you mentioned the navy, and yes, sir have fewer ships than in 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. we have ships that go under water, nuclear submarines. so the question is not a game of battleship where we are counting ships, it's what are our capabilities. >> the applause in this room are any indication, horses and bayonets was the line of the night. >>> helping us brick that down is mark halperin, the author of "game change." if the first debate belonged to mitt romney, the second debate was president obama stopping the bleeding, what was this debate? >> both guys getting done what they wanted to get done. the president wanted to show the united states he was an experienced commander in chief. you show what you have done, you have the kind of experience, knowledge and intelligence to show people i know how to do this part of the job. i thought the president did that we saw a number of exchanges where he schooled

when did the navy found the s.e.a.l. >> great. so on active duty right now the navy s.e.a.l. are the smallest special operations force. at any time is probably between two and 3,000 actual navy s.e.a.l. and they are not only serving in platoons on the front lines by working in places like the pentagon, headquarters command like central command in afghanistan and some of those of course. and so there are probably about 2000-3000. they were started on january 1st 1962 by president john f. kennedy. and the reason why he started them is that he wanted to have a force -- s.e.a.l. is for sea, air, and land commando. what president in the one the do is have a force of people, a dedicated and highly trained force that he could put into difficult situations to could not only respond tactically and using physical courage but could also respondent could use their minds and the thoughtful about working in some very difficult and dangerous situations, and his theory, the international relations. let's the development was called flexible response. the idea was that the united states it to b

he heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. i lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and he's had a great career in the navy commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. and he's going to talk to us now about navy medicine. with that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. (applause). >> thank you, general, very much. well, it's a pleasure here and i'm honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. secretary schultz, mrs. schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. general spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here who is in the readiness business, i am honored to be speaking to a group of people and that would include i think everybody in this hanger deck who is part of that cadre of individuals who when bad things happen and ev