LaRiea Thompson - Comments

-There is a cycle to community preparedness. That cycle is planning-training- exercises. You can't do one without the others. -You cannot judge the value of any one piece without understanding how LEPCs use money for the entire cycle. -PHMSA has focused on measuring attributes that, while easy to count, fail to actually address the important aspects of how local agencies use HMEP monies. -Training is pointless without a plan to train against and exercises to measure whether training has covered necessary skills. Planning is pointless without exercises to test the plan and the level of training. Exercises are pointless unless they test planning and skills learned through training.