During this week’s readings, you will learn about human response to hazards, disasters, emergencies, or catastrophes. For this assignment, discuss how you think you would respond to a hurricane, a terrorist incident, and a home fire. How are your natural responses similar or different from the guidelines provided in the text? Why do you think these similarities and differences occur?
As a resident of a hurricane prone area, we prepare by stocking up on supplies like food, water, toiletries, and etc. long before the hurricane season. Then as the storm approaches we board up the windows and make sure all loose items around the yard are out of the way. We evacuate if the word is given to evacuate. On top of that being in the Coast Guard we also have to be ready to evacuate our boats and prepare the unit for foul weather. Normally we convoy our boats up to Tampa or other times we get deployed to the areas that have been affected by the storm to help with recovery. Around Southern Florida we do not take these storms lightly and always prepare well beforehand. …show more content…
Being in the Coast Guard at a Maritime Safety and Security Teams (MSST) we provide rapidly deployable specialized waterborne and shore side antiterrorism forces for critical maritime infrastructure and strategic maritime shipping throughout the ports of the United States and ports of interest abroad. The current utilization of MSSTs represents an unbalanced equation of risk versus mission accomplishment. We are reserved to function as a contingency response asset for significant national or regional maritime. We routinely conduct full-scale training and exercises on a host of terrorist response scenarios, which allows us to react with a degree of familiarity in the event of terrorist
As a resident of a hurricane prone area, we prepare by stocking up on supplies like food, water, toiletries, and etc. long before the hurricane season. Then as the storm approaches we board up the windows and make sure all loose items around the yard are out of the way. We evacuate if the word is given to evacuate. On top of that being in the Coast Guard we also have to be ready to evacuate our boats and prepare the unit for foul weather. Normally we convoy our boats up to Tampa or other times we get deployed to the areas that have been affected by the storm to help with recovery. Around Southern Florida we do not take these storms lightly and always prepare well beforehand. …show more content…
Being in the Coast Guard at a Maritime Safety and Security Teams (MSST) we provide rapidly deployable specialized waterborne and shore side antiterrorism forces for critical maritime infrastructure and strategic maritime shipping throughout the ports of the United States and ports of interest abroad. The current utilization of MSSTs represents an unbalanced equation of risk versus mission accomplishment. We are reserved to function as a contingency response asset for significant national or regional maritime. We routinely conduct full-scale training and exercises on a host of terrorist response scenarios, which allows us to react with a degree of familiarity in the event of terrorist