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The California National Guard's Army

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Air and State Guard participated in the

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2023 joint all hazard awareness and

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assessment exercise , the multi agency

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training exercise test and evaluates

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the California National Guard's

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incident awareness and assessment

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capabilities . It's done to test both

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our ability to communicate , work

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together in an all hazards type

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environment which would be fire search

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and rescue earthquake scenarios . So

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the pad cell which stands for

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processing assessment dissemination .

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It is an unclassified enclave for both

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our federal mission training

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requirements as well as providing reach

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back for our coordinators out in the

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field who are working directly at with

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the various civil authorities . We're

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full motion video , we're providing

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analytical call outs as well as

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products such as fire perimeters ,

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areas of coverage queues that may need

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to be sent out to a law enforcement for

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search and rescues . Well , it's

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definitely rewarding and definitely

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represents another aspect of being a

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guard member that we have that federal

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mission . And yet we can serve to

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support , leverage our analysts support

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the domestic hazard environment and

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it's very rewarding , being able to

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leverage our assets , our analysts to

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provide a state resource to our civil

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authorities , our role is to support

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the wing , support the state and um we

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augment the National Guard uh during uh

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state and local emergencies . Um To me ,

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it's , it's everything . So I get to

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serve as a member of the community ,

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you know , really a citizen soldier .

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You know , I love that we're running

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through scenarios of large earthquakes .

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And our role here is looking at imagery

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from assets flying in the air , they

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are over flying areas of damage and

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then we assess that damage . We're

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looking at things like infrastructure ,

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what exists out there that would be up ,

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that we could tell incident ,

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commanders and local authorities that

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they have going for the public . We're

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here as part of the joint all hazard

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assessment exercises and being a part

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of the J two in

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general , no two days are the same .

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And it's great to feel like we're

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providing situational awareness that's

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going to our decision makers across the

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whole state and basically to address

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incidences that are affecting people's

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lives . And that feels good . What

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we're doing in this exercise in my

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perspective , for what I do is to test

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out different feeds of data flowing

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between our different state and federal

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agencies and how we use them separately

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and how we use them together for

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analytical purposes to support our

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event responses . As a member of the

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California State Guard , it really

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feels professionally fulfilling because

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I have an opportunity to use the

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experiences I've had over my career in

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geologic hydrologic public safety to be

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used here for California , for helping

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to support our response efforts .