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Navy Prepares for Homeland Emergencies

The Navy has chosen San Diego to open its “Shore Force Training Center,” The Center will use emergency management training and war games to prepare personnel for natural disasters at home. KPBS rep

Navy Prepares for Homeland Emergencies

The Navy has chosen San Diego to open its “Shore Force Training Center." The Center  will use emergency management training and war games to prepare personnel for natural disasters at home. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

The Navy’s presence in San Diego is growing. The latest new initiative is a center to prepare Navy personnel from around the country on what to do in an emergency at or near their home base.

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The curriculum will include how to protect Navy property, personnel and their families.

It will also cover how to handle federal protocols dealing with what the Navy can and cannot do to cooperate with civilian emergency services. 

Navy Captain Matt Brown.

Brown: This is the only one of its type in the nation, and our leadership in Washington made a decision this is an appropriate place since we have so much of the Navy here in San Diego.

Officials at San Diego County Office of Emergency Services say they have not heard much about the new training center yet. They say one benefit may be that the military starts using similar emergency operating procedures, based on a model recommended by FEMA.

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Alison St John, KPBS news.