WEBVTT 00:02.820 --> 00:04.750 - My names's Lieutenant Colonel Pete Morrissey. 00:04.750 --> 00:08.517 I am the Commander of the Second Battalion 106th RTI. 00:08.517 --> 00:13.517 Here at you see Javits I am the Physical Security Chief. 00:14.945 --> 00:17.480 My hometown is North Tonawanda, New York. 00:17.480 --> 00:19.130 I'm the Physical Security Chief, 00:19.130 --> 00:20.169 so it's my responsibility, 00:20.169 --> 00:21.671 the security of the building, 00:21.671 --> 00:25.866 the security of the people inside is my responsibility. 00:25.866 --> 00:28.973 Showed up, was appointed that. 00:30.210 --> 00:33.450 Big part of being able to accomplish that was 00:33.450 --> 00:35.470 hooking up with the physical security, 00:35.470 --> 00:38.698 the Vice President for Physical Security and Safety Services 00:38.698 --> 00:40.460 here at the Javits. 00:40.460 --> 00:41.545 Guy named Ken Dickson. 00:41.545 --> 00:43.562 A large convention center like this 00:43.562 --> 00:45.897 pretty much had all the plans we needed. 00:45.897 --> 00:47.372 As far as making, 00:47.372 --> 00:49.430 everything from access badges 00:49.430 --> 00:52.623 to where security posts should be. 00:53.570 --> 00:55.970 So it was just a matter of linking up with them. 00:57.121 --> 01:00.093 Well the Javits is a state-owned facility, 01:00.093 --> 01:02.160 on city-owned property. 01:02.160 --> 01:05.084 So a lot of it had to do with what NYPD would handle, 01:05.084 --> 01:07.154 what the state police would handle. 01:07.154 --> 01:10.190 And then what an access control force 01:10.190 --> 01:12.679 provided by the New York military forces would handle. 01:12.679 --> 01:16.720 And a lot of bureaucracy as far as that 01:16.720 --> 01:19.018 and who was responsible for what. 01:19.018 --> 01:21.210 One of the big challenges that we have 01:21.210 --> 01:23.550 was who would actually do 01:24.995 --> 01:28.553 I guess security operations out on the floor. 01:28.553 --> 01:31.080 The treatment floor. 01:31.080 --> 01:33.130 It's a COVID-positive facility 01:33.130 --> 01:36.050 and not a lot of agencies wanted to go out there. 01:36.050 --> 01:40.910 But once we got COVID-positive patients under control, 01:40.910 --> 01:44.260 if that was the case and that person needed to be arrested, 01:44.260 --> 01:46.069 what would happen at that point. 01:46.069 --> 01:47.560 Once they're arrested 01:47.560 --> 01:50.623 and handed off to state law enforcement, 01:52.320 --> 01:55.930 they take 'em to central booking here in New York City. 01:55.930 --> 01:56.824 The problem is 01:56.824 --> 01:59.626 that car that that person was transported in 01:59.626 --> 02:01.767 is now COVID-positive. 02:01.767 --> 02:04.455 Everybody at central booking has now been 02:04.455 --> 02:07.543 you know affected with the COVID-positive person. 02:07.543 --> 02:11.560 That was one of our main issues. 02:11.560 --> 02:12.393 I tell you, 02:12.393 --> 02:13.290 nowhere in the world, 02:13.290 --> 02:15.020 never has it ever been done before 02:15.020 --> 02:16.880 where a convention center got set up 02:16.880 --> 02:21.790 to be a 3,300 hospital bed facility. 02:21.790 --> 02:23.390 It probably will never happen again. 02:23.390 --> 02:25.875 We were the first ones to do it. 02:25.875 --> 02:27.037 And that's, 02:27.037 --> 02:28.154 I mean that's, 02:28.154 --> 02:29.988 I'm never going to be able to say 02:29.988 --> 02:32.887 my men did that or I had any part in it again. 02:32.887 --> 02:35.560 And that's probably the best thing 02:35.560 --> 02:37.965 that I can say about this. 02:37.965 --> 02:40.933 This deployment's very different from my other deployments. 02:42.590 --> 02:45.310 I was mobilized for Hurricane Sandy 02:45.310 --> 02:50.233 where I worked in the plan section for the joint staff. 02:51.760 --> 02:54.510 Was mobilized for Iraq where I was a battle captain 02:54.510 --> 02:56.752 in a division tactical command post. 02:56.752 --> 03:00.774 But this is different just because of the COVID virus. 03:00.774 --> 03:03.610 It's a totally different enemy 03:03.610 --> 03:05.210 than what we've ever trained for. 03:05.210 --> 03:08.305 And it took a lot of last minute adaption. 03:08.305 --> 03:11.420 And last minute planning 03:11.420 --> 03:15.290 to come up with how to do anything basically. 03:15.290 --> 03:16.270 How to handle food, 03:16.270 --> 03:17.300 how to cook food. 03:18.980 --> 03:21.744 Like I said, how to handle an arrestee. 03:21.744 --> 03:25.370 It just affects every single thing 03:25.370 --> 03:26.714 that you could think of doing. 03:26.714 --> 03:29.210 And that's why it's so much different 03:29.210 --> 03:31.410 from any other deployment I've ever been on.