Posted on Jan 28, 2014
Col Regional Director, Whem/Ssa And Congressional Liaison
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Concerning interagency assignments, training, and professional education... what are your thoughts and opinions? How are we currently doing in these areas from the DoD perspective? What are we doing right and what could we be doing better? Is the next logical focus for inter-government cooperation and integration be in the interagency realm? Since the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 the military services have made strides in "organizing, training, equipping" across the joint spectrum; similarly, if the inter-agency push calls for wide-spread focus on integrated professional education (training, exercises, assignments, etc.) how are we doing in this area thus far? What grade would you give the interagency effort in-progress? The idea here is to draw attention to the issue and to discuss, brainstorm, and problem-solve interagency professional education (and related topics) in order to create synergy, foster professional relationships, enhanced knowledge of capabilities and processes, and cross-agency SA. We have a thoroughly experienced and highly capable audience, therefore I'm sure that this will be an informative and enlightening discussion; so, let's get things started; thank you for all that you do, and... see you all in the discussion threads!
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CMC Robert Young
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My last assignment involved the USCG supporting USN, USAF & USA as well as Homeland Security and law enforcement missions which included the alphabet soup of federal agencies and our regional public safety partners. If it could be done, we did it. As a result we (the royal we) conducted a myriad of multi agency operations 

always using the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) as the format for constructing command structure, assigning responsibilities and coordinating logistics. Almost everybody associated with any command function completed the NIMS & ICS courses which gave us a common language and operational understanding.


We developed individual Incident Action Plans (IAP) for events or evolutions which were recurrent in the AOR. Despite the steady rotation of personnel experienced by military units, the canned IAPs ensured a consistently high level of performance from all stakeholders every time and shortened ramp up time for recently reported members. Additionally, since the ICS process was already the standard by which many civilian public safety agencies respond to disasters (natural or manmade) and mass causality events so we benefited from the real world experiences of our partners who had far more practice in applying the system.

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Master Chief, this is great, thanks for sharing your thoughts! I'd certainly imagine that the USCG has a ton of experience and lessons learned in the interagency area. So, please feel free to stop by the thread to offer any further wisdom as the discussion matures; I'm absolutely certain that it would provide valuable perspective, particularly for our up-and-coming leaders... thanks again for sharing your wealth of experience, amazing insight, and awesome service perspective!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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I really don't have a lot of Background with it. Navy CTs we would occasionally work with our Marine Brothers and it was OK. Also once in a blue moon worked with my Royal Navy Counterparts that I enjoyed it but it was still pretty rare. After I retired I ended up working with an Army or Air Force Radar Watcher that told me he was assigned to a US Navy Ship. I think it sounds Brilliant.
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LTJG Robert M.
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I was USCG & did two joint service tours with USN. For me it was an invaluable insight into the differences as well as similarities and interworkings of a sister service.
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