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“Assessing, developing, attaining and sustaining needed emergency preparedness, response and recovery capabilities is a difficult task that requires sustained leadership [and] the coordinated efforts of many stakeholders from a variety of first responder disciplines, levels of government and nongovernmental entities. There is a no silver bullet, no easy formula.”
William Jenkins
“I now believe the current structure can no longer survive.”
“Welcome to UNO; this is their new home, ... They're going to be OK.”
“(Brian Gilbert) advised that he heard a moan, and was initially excited because he thought he shot a bear.”
“Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.”
“The key problem here is, and continues to be, the inability of people to put aside egos and address this on a regional basis, not on a stovepipe basis,”
“The key problem here is, and continues to be, the inability of people to put aside egos and address this on a regional basis, not on a stovepipe basis.”
“In the last several years, the federal government has awarded some $11 billion in grants to federal, state and local authorities to improve emergency preparedness, response and recovery capabilities.”
“Assessing, developing, attaining and sustaining needed emergency preparedness, response and recovery capabilities is a difficult task that requires sustained leadership .... There is a no silver bullet, no easy formula.”
“But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his illadvised favor. What will be thought of him who exacts of his friends that which disgraces him? Look at him who winks at and overlooks offences in one, which he causes to be punished in another, and contrast him with the inflexible soldier who does his duty faithfully, notwithstanding it occasionally wars with his private feelings. The conduct of one will be venerated and emulated, the other detested as a satire upon soldiership and honor.”
WIlliam Jenkins Worth
