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This episode was made possible by Dustin Colgrove, Colonel C. McAdams, Sr.
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Colonel Phillip Smith, and other Patreon members. Support us at
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patreon dot com. Forward slash State Defense Force fantastic.
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So tell us about some of the other missions with
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the Maryland Defense Force. I'll probably get in trouble later
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because I'm sure I'm going to miss some things. But
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we've got an engineering group that does some pretty cool
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stuff right now. We work with the University of Maryland.
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We actually teach a class for a for credit class
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at the University of Maryland on infrastructure, building infrastructure, how
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to do inspections, all those types of things and take
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them out for inspections at a couple of our armories
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where they write up reports and submit papers. And we've
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been doing that for seven years, I think maybe eight,
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which is pretty exciting that to us. And again, this
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is some of our recruiting opportunities that we go out
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and meet with the college and teach the classes, and
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it must be worthwhile. We keep getting good reports and
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they keep asking us to do it again, so that's
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a great thing. And then also yeah, also what we do,
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Maryland doesn't really have a big set of engineers. We've
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got some on the Air Force side, but every state
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has a requirement to inspect their buildings and submit their
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annual reports. We do that. The Defense Force does that
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for the state of Maryland, so we actually every year
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are Engineering Battalion goes through a large percentage of the
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buildings based on what the Guard tells us to do.
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We do the inspections. We write up all the reports
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and submit all that through the Maryland Military Department to
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meet the annual requirement from the Guard for inspections. There's
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a couple things that are cool with that. One is
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that's a job we took off the Guard, so they
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don't have to do it every time. We can take
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something off their plate because as you know, the Guard's
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plate is about one hundred and thirty percent full, maybe
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one hundred and fifty percent full, so everything off their
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plate is a good thing. So that's something we can
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definitely give to the Guard, something they don't have to
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worry about. But we also as we're doing these inspections,
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we're using FEMA and FEMA like standards, so we're preparing
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ourselves for if there's a state emergency, for whether or
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something where we're in an emergency situation and we're working
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with FEMA that we can speak the language and inspect
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the way FEMA is expects buildings to be inspected. You know,
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that tends to be one of our primary missions is
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emergency management response. So this gets us to that point
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and we get to practice it every year by inspecting
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the the state Guard facilities throughout the state. So we
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get we get two or three good bangs for that
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buck when we do that here in Maryland. So that's
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our engineering group. We've got a medical group tenth MED.
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There's a couple exciting things I think about tenth MED.
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One thing that Maryland has is we've got a Medical
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Reserve Corps, which is a civilian entity that works for
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the Department of Health in Maryland. They're basically kind of
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what we are. They're volunteers on call in case they
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need more medical support that we can't get. But our
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tenth MED is also the tenth MRC, so we have
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a relationship with the state Department of Health and how
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we do medical inspections and medical recall. So we've got
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to we get to do a couple of that. In fact,
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some of the MRC people who aren't able to be
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part of the Maryland Defense Force are still in the
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tenth MRC. So sometimes when our tenth MED goes and
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does missions, we have civilians come who are part of
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the tenth MRC. And what we've really learned and I
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believe is very true here in Maryland because many of
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our MDDF personnel are responders in their primary job, that
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the way we're really going to help Maryland is with
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preparation if when an emergency happens, many of our people
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are going to get called in their primary job and
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not available to help respond with the Defense Force. So
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we're trying to get out and do a lot of
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community engagement and our tenth MED is probably are our
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best unit for doing that. They're going out in communities
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and doing screening of people for diabetes, for other health issues.
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They're meeting with people doing CPR training, first responder type
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of training. You know, if you're in a house and
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somebody falls down the stairs, how do you take care
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of a broken leg or foot and how do you
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splint it? And those types of things. So our group,
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our tenth MED, is going out and doing a lot
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of that public health type of work. They're doing a
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great job and a lot of community engagement at that
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level where a lot of recruiting happens. Tying back into
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our earlier question. But they're a group that's really out
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there and growing. And then I'm sure we're going to
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ask questions about our cyber groups. So our cyber group
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is very active in the state. We've done a lot
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of community outreach and training, the same type of thing.
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You know, once you've been once you've been hacked, is
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not the time to work to figure out how can
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I protect my systems? You know, that's correct that So
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we're trying to get out there doing a lot of
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community outreach and training, getting people to protect themselves at
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the level they can. And then we were working with
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the Guard and the state to harden state systems as
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best as we can. There's another thing that we're doing
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is here in Maryland, there's a thing called you PAD
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Unclassified Processing and Dissemination. It's it's basically realizing that there's
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a lot of unclassified information that needs to be consolidated
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when when there's a state emergency, we need to do something.
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An example would be during COVID when somebody would say, well,
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how many hospital rooms do we have in the state
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of Maryland, how many of them are full. So it's
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these types of things that are at the time we
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needed during COVID, and it turned out that we in
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the Defense Force had some people very capable of doing
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things like that, also some players with GIS backgrounds that
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could come alongside our joint staff and help provide this
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unclassified information and consolidate it in a way that was meaningful.
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So we're doing a lot of support, which excuse me,
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tends to come out of our cyber group helping with
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this unclassified processing. So that's exciting.
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This episode was made possible by Dustin Colgrove, Colonel C. McAdams, Sr.
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Colonel Phillip Smith, and other Patreon members. Support us at
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patreon dot com. Forward slash State Defense Force fantastic.
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So tell us about some of the other missions with
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the Maryland Defense Force. I'll probably get in trouble later
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because I'm sure I'm going to miss some things. But
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we've got an engineering group that does some pretty cool
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stuff right now. We work with the University of Maryland.
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We actually teach a class for a for credit class
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at the University of Maryland on infrastructure, building infrastructure, how
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to do inspections, all those types of things and take
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them out for inspections at a couple of our armories
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where they write up reports and submit papers. And we've
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been doing that for seven years, I think maybe eight,
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which is pretty exciting that to us. And again, this
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is some of our recruiting opportunities that we go out
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and meet with the college and teach the classes, and
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it must be worthwhile. We keep getting good reports and
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they keep asking us to do it again, so that's
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a great thing. And then also yeah, also what we do,
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Maryland doesn't really have a big set of engineers. We've
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got some on the Air Force side, but every state
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has a requirement to inspect their buildings and submit their
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annual reports. We do that. The Defense Force does that
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for the state of Maryland, so we actually every year
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are Engineering Battalion goes through a large percentage of the
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buildings based on what the Guard tells us to do.
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We do the inspections. We write up all the reports
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and submit all that through the Maryland Military Department to
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meet the annual requirement from the Guard for inspections. There's
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a couple things that are cool with that. One is
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that's a job we took off the Guard, so they
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don't have to do it every time. We can take
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something off their plate because as you know, the Guard's
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plate is about one hundred and thirty percent full, maybe
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one hundred and fifty percent full, so everything off their
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plate is a good thing. So that's something we can
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definitely give to the Guard, something they don't have to
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worry about. But we also as we're doing these inspections,
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we're using FEMA and FEMA like standards, so we're preparing
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ourselves for if there's a state emergency, for whether or
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something where we're in an emergency situation and we're working
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with FEMA that we can speak the language and inspect
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the way FEMA is expects buildings to be inspected. You know,
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that tends to be one of our primary missions is
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emergency management response. So this gets us to that point
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and we get to practice it every year by inspecting
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the the state Guard facilities throughout the state. So we
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get we get two or three good bangs for that
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buck when we do that here in Maryland. So that's
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our engineering group. We've got a medical group tenth MED.
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There's a couple exciting things I think about tenth MED.
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One thing that Maryland has is we've got a Medical
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Reserve Corps, which is a civilian entity that works for
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the Department of Health in Maryland. They're basically kind of
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what we are. They're volunteers on call in case they
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need more medical support that we can't get. But our
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tenth MED is also the tenth MRC, so we have
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a relationship with the state Department of Health and how
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we do medical inspections and medical recall. So we've got
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to we get to do a couple of that. In fact,
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some of the MRC people who aren't able to be
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part of the Maryland Defense Force are still in the
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tenth MRC. So sometimes when our tenth MED goes and
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does missions, we have civilians come who are part of
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the tenth MRC. And what we've really learned and I
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believe is very true here in Maryland because many of
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our MDDF personnel are responders in their primary job, that
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the way we're really going to help Maryland is with
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preparation if when an emergency happens, many of our people
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are going to get called in their primary job and
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not available to help respond with the Defense Force. So
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we're trying to get out and do a lot of
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community engagement and our tenth MED is probably are our
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best unit for doing that. They're going out in communities
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and doing screening of people for diabetes, for other health issues.
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They're meeting with people doing CPR training, first responder type
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of training. You know, if you're in a house and
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somebody falls down the stairs, how do you take care
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of a broken leg or foot and how do you
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splint it? And those types of things. So our group,
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our tenth MED, is going out and doing a lot
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of that public health type of work. They're doing a
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great job and a lot of community engagement at that
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level where a lot of recruiting happens. Tying back into
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our earlier question. But they're a group that's really out
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there and growing. And then I'm sure we're going to
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ask questions about our cyber groups. So our cyber group
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is very active in the state. We've done a lot
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of community outreach and training, the same type of thing.
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You know, once you've been once you've been hacked, is
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not the time to work to figure out how can
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I protect my systems? You know, that's correct that So
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we're trying to get out there doing a lot of
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community outreach and training, getting people to protect themselves at
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the level they can. And then we were working with
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the Guard and the state to harden state systems as
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best as we can. There's another thing that we're doing
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is here in Maryland, there's a thing called you PAD
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Unclassified Processing and Dissemination. It's it's basically realizing that there's
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a lot of unclassified information that needs to be consolidated
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when when there's a state emergency, we need to do something.
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An example would be during COVID when somebody would say, well,
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how many hospital rooms do we have in the state
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of Maryland, how many of them are full. So it's
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these types of things that are at the time we
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needed during COVID, and it turned out that we in
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the Defense Force had some people very capable of doing
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things like that, also some players with GIS backgrounds that
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could come alongside our joint staff and help provide this
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unclassified information and consolidate it in a way that was meaningful.
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So we're doing a lot of support, which excuse me,
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tends to come out of our cyber group helping with
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this unclassified processing. So that's exciting.
