Comprehensive Crisis Management students visit CFE-DM

HI, UNITED STATES
02.31.2019
Story and photos by Theanne Herrmann

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – Thirty-two international students participating in the Comprehensive Crisis Management course from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies visited the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, at CFE-DM, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019.

CFE-DM Director Joseph Martin presented a brief along with a question and answer session explaining how his staff facilitates training and information sharing globally among civilian governmental and nongovernmental organizations, foreign militaries, and academic institutions with DMHA missions and programs.

Mr. Joseph Martin, director of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, hosts a tour of the CFE-DM at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, to 32 international students participating in the Comprehensive Crisis Management course from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, March 1, 2019.

Thirty-two international students participating in the Comprehensive Crisis Management course from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies view the historical video of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, during a tour of the CFE-DM at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019.

International students from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Hiroto Tanaka, right, of Japan, representing the Agency for Development and Emergency, Nur Aiza binti Zakaria, of Malaysia, from the Pahang State Health Department, Ministry of Health, and Nantiya Paiboon, of Thailand, from the Disaster Relief Division Office of Policy and Planning, participate in a brief along with a question and answer session from the Director of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, Mr. Joseph Martin, at CFE-DM, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019. (CFE-DM photo by Theanne Herrmann)

Students attending the Comprehensive Crisis Management course from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Dhiraj Pratap Singh, middle, a police officer from Nepal, Ohotu-Owo Margaret Odey, a foreign liaison for Nigeria, and Miyuki Abdulghani, right, from the United States Army Pacific, attend a brief along with a question and answer session from the Director of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, Mr. Joseph Martin, at the CFE-DM, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Christopher Weaver, humanitarian operations officer for the Pacific Air Forces, engages in conversation during a question and answer session from the Director of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, Mr. Joseph Martin, at CFE-DM, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019. Weaver is one of 32 students from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies visiting the CFE-EM to learn how the staff facilitates training and information sharing globally among civilian governmental and nongovernmental organizations, foreign militaries, and academic institutions with DMHA missions and programs.

Mr. Joseph Martin, director of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, presents a brief along with a question and answer session, to 32 students participating in the Comprehensive Crisis Management course from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies at the CFE-DM, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019. Martin explained how his staff facilitates training and information sharing globally among civilian governmental and nongovernmental organizations, foreign militaries, and academic institutions with DMHA missions and programs.

Thirty-two international students participating in the Comprehensive Crisis Management course from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies visit the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, at CFE-DM, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019.

Dr. Alberto Morales Jr. the Applied Research and Information Sharing Branch Chief at the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management visits with Nantiya Paiboon, of Thailand, from the Disaster Relief Division Office of Policy and Planning and Suhud Riama Andreane, of Indonesia, from the Head of Restoring Family Link sub-division, Indonesian Red Cross at CFE-DM, at the CFE-DM, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 1, 2019. Paiboon and Andreane are students from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies visiting the CFE-EM to learn how the staff facilitates training and information sharing globally among civilian governmental and nongovernmental organizations, foreign militaries, and academic institutions with DMHA missions and programs.