User talk:Donald C. Church
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A personal welcome
We seem to share a good deal of interests, and I even went to Towson High School for a year. Take a look at CZ: Emergency management Subgroup; I'd be very open to collaboration in getting some of these to the Approvable level. Incident Command System is a good start, feeding into regional and national level systems.
For that matter, I need to write a paper for the Cape Cod Medical Reserve Corps/county government on disaster communications, but there's no reason that can't be something general here. I find that many local disaster comm plans focus on one or two media, and often miss the National Communications System GETS/WPS capabilities, or treat amateur radio (ARES) in a vacuum. Locally specific methods may be ignored -- here, for example, the first plans in a fishing area surrounded by water didn't consider marine radio. The request here comes from a desire that the Corps take over the ESF 8 medical support function for shelters.
There's also much that can be done in the national security area, historic and present.
We might want to look at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill incident, less to dissect it in detail and more as a case study in the NRF/NIMS. There is an article on the Stafford Act, but it might be illustrative to show how other legislation can have disaster-specific implications, such as the Jones Act (actually, there are two).
I'm an Editor for Politics, Engineering (the main place for emergency management), History, Military and Computers. Howard C. Berkowitz 17:00, 17 July 2010 (UTC)