Recently, my city/county government required all of the previous IS-800 takers to re-taking the IS-800 test with revision "a". So, while take IS-800a I saw that FEMA had posted additional course materals that I hadn't noticed. These new ones are related to the Emergency Support Functions (ESF). So, I took the course for ESF #9 SAR.
That's an EXCELLENT PR plug for Civil Air Patrol to bring realization to Emergency Managers to what CAP is about. CAP is mentioned by name and with pictures of members and aircraft.
I would suggest all CAP members take it to be familiar with it and the ESF 9 functions and think of ways YOU can get your local/state EM coordinators to "review" ESF 9 via this material and get a reinforcement of CAP exposure.
In the ever increasing inter-agency environment, it is essential to be familiar with the ESF areas so that you can properly use them during a function. Knowing your own territory is a great place to start!
The smaller ESF FEMA EMI courses only take a few minutes to complete, but can really help in larger mission environments.
great find, but were over here
http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=5223.0 (http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=5223.0)
Yep, read through all of those, but NONE of them mentioned how heavily CAP was mentioned in the EMI training.