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A Global Emergency Response Teams Concept

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By Frederick H. Gilbert

June 4th, 2014

“Major Disasters Must Be Met With Equal Powerful Force!”

Part One: The Disaster

Not knowing?

Is there immediate intelligence or communications available as to the extent of disaster or emergency situation to determine what resources to sent?

Is there enough resources immediately available that country emergency services needs, the expertise and trained personnel rescue, manpower support, equipment,

medical services, emergency supplies and the transportation to send to impacted

areas?

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO GET READY AND SENT HELP?

The data don’t predict a tsunami with

absolute certainty.I say we wait.

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The problem is not knowing where, when, how big and how many of

people, animals and amount of environmental damage will there be when a disaster or emergency situation occur?

Reworded from (AHA Operational Guide for Animal Care and Control Agencies.) (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Major Disasters or Massive Emergency Situations

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In order to be classified as a disaster or massive emergency situations it will have to have profound environmental effects and/or human loss - and frequently incurs financial losses.

A disaster or massive emergency situation is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, lots of collateral damage such as a hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, blizzard, avalanche, pestilence, famine, fire, explosion, building collapse, transportation wreck, or other situation that causes human suffering or creates human/animals needs that the victims cannot alleviate without assistance.

GERT defines “Emergency Situation”, major or small, human being, environmental, or wildlife, that emergency services cannot adequately deal with because lack of expertise, special equipment or not enough personnel. Or whereas, a GERT base, can response because it is closer to a life or death situation.

Major Disasters 2003-2013Typhoon Haiyan is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people in the Philippines. Here are the natural disasters in the last decade that had higher death tolls:— March 11, 2011: A magnitude-9.0 earthquake off northeastern Japan causes a tsunami that sweeps onto the coast. About 19,000 people are killed and three nuclear reactors melt at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.— Jan. 12, 2010: A 7.0 earthquake devastates Haiti's capital and surrounding cities, killing 314,000 people.— May 12, 2008: A 7.9 temblor in China's Sichuan province kills 87,000 people. A disproportionate number of them were children killed when their shoddily built schools collapsed.— May 2, 2008: The storm surge from Cyclone Nargis washes up densely populated areas around the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar, washing away whole farming villages. Around 138,000 people died.— Oct. 8, 2005: A 7.6 earthquake kills about 80,000 people in northwestern Pakistan and Kashmir.— Dec. 26, 2004: A 9.1 earthquake off western Indonesia triggers a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people in a dozen countries.— Dec. 26, 2003: A 6.6 earthquake flattens the historic city of Bam in southeastern Iran, and some 26,000 people are killed. By The Associated Press November 12, ????

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Disasters: the facts

Storms, floods, famine, cyclones, drought, typhoons, earthquakes, mudslides, avalanches. Each year for the past decade, an average of 258 million people have lived through some kind of disaster – in total, this is the equivalent of almost half of the world’s population.

According to the Red Cross, an average of 354 natural disasters occurred throughout the world each year from 1991 to 1999. Between 2000 and 2004, this figure more than doubled to an average of 728 natural disasters per year.

And each year, the death toll from disasters is growing greater – from 84,570 in 1995 to 249,896 ten years later, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Disasters: the facts Christian Aid

(Read & copied 1-10-2014)

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Climate Change

Climate change is propelling the incidence and intensity of natural disasters.

The number of geophysical disasters – earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions – has remained steady. However, the number of climate-related disasters – including droughts, windstorms and floods – is increasingly steadily.

Floods, hurricanes and droughts have increased dramatically over the last 20 years. From 1987 to 1998, the average number of climate-related disasters was 195. From 2000 to 2006, the average was 365, representing an increase of 87 per cent.

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Need Reference

Who’s hit hardest?

Over the last 15 years, about three times as many disasters happened in developing countries as in developed countries. But:The number of people killed by disasters in developing countries was more than 10 times higher than those killed in developed countriesMore than 50 times as many people were killed by floods in poor countries as in rich countriesMore than 50 times as many people were affected by disasters in developing countries as in developed countries.

Disasters: the facts Christian Aid (Read & copied 1-10-2014)11

Following flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rain that killed 66 people and affected 290,000 households in southern provinces last month, medical personnel and rescue workers faced huge obstacles in helping patients.

Chief of Surat Thani's public health office, Dr Nattawut Prasertsiriphong, said many rural hospitals in the province were isolated from other areas by floods.

Many patients were left in hospitals surrounded by high-level floodwaters.

About 25 rural hospitals and 54 healthcare units were damaged by heavy rain and flash floods. Over 100,000 households in Surat Thani were affected. …

Roads across the province were damaged and mobile phone signals were cut off.

Hospitals were submerged in two-metre deep floodwater. Medical workers and patients, especially those in critical condition, were trapped inside.

Medics tell of struggle to save lives during floods By Pongphon Sarnsama;From The Nation, Thailand 2011-04-21

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People suffering from lack of any quick response because:

Governments are ill prepared and/or overwhelmed. Even developing countries find themselves hard pressed to cope with the unexpected. This leads to wasted time getting ready, redundancy and - ultimately - failure to adequately and promptly respond to major emergency situations and disasters in their countries.

And lots of environmental, roads, utility services and infrastructure damage occur in the same disaster that will need immediate clearing, repairs, rebuilding and restoring.

GERT can offset the cost of maintaining readiness for major disasters or emergency situations, e.g. rarely used rescue equipment, paying the waiting specially trained personnel on standby and solve the inability to quickly direct resources towards emergency needs.

Many counties are having to downsize or cut programs to the disabled and elderly, and cut medical and food programs. 13

Major disasters and emergency situations all over the world really do not have borders, nor do the victims care who comes to help them or where they come from.

Most expensive natural disasters

Most governments are totally flustered with the immediate disaster service needs: emergency medical care, health services, food, shelter and transportation problems.

Delayed help results from disorganized governments and those unable to cope with their own emergency rescuers in a timely manner, lacking specialized personnel & rescue equipment, transportation and victims’ assistances centers.

The media frequently highlights the many lives needlessly lost after an initial disaster due to government delays in allowing access by international aid to respond immediately.

Such organizations have to cope with political grandstanding, red tape, clearances, medical checks and import fees on equipment and supplies they import.

Delays

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Part Three: The Frame Work!

Global Emergency Response Teams Mission

To provide Member Countries with immediate responses to their major disasters

and/or massive emergency situations with a worldwide network of Global Emergency

Response Teams (GERT) bases, available 24/7 with emergency rescue, medical

manpower, equipment, supply, transportation and relief services and also having

direct financial responsibility for its own operational services to humanitarian,

animalitarian* victims and help minimize further environmental damage.

(Animalitarian coined here to mean “Caring or having concern for animal & wildlife”).

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Like an insurance policy, GERT offers a solution to disaster recovery and relief that is timely, cost effective, and efficient in the use of personnel, equipment, and resources.

But most important, the GERT concept is intended as a means to save more lives in the immediate period after the initial impact, and all through the lingering aftermath of major disaster or emergency situations.

Global Emergency Response TeamsMission

Our Mission is to save the lives of those who have survived a disaster or emergency situation with Rescues, Emergency Medical Care, Victim

Assistance, Shelter and Food.To provide Humanitarian, Environmental and Animalitarian*,

Prevention Education and Intervention Projects and Programs to reduce the loss of lives and minimize damages of coming calamities.

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InternationalAgencies &Organization

GERT would partner with Member countries and facilitate a new approach - international networking with other willing agencies and organizations worldwide to develop a new systematic approach and logistical

delivery system to meet major disaster or emergency situations, humanitarian, animalitarian and environmental needs.

International Sport,

Entertainment and Artists

Foundation

InternationalHost & MemberCountries

MemberCountries

Emergency & Medical

Services

NETWORKING

PartnershipsGERT Worldwide Bases

MemberCountries

Agencies &Organization

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Working as a team in a partnership with Member countries: with an excellent organization that is well equipped, well supplied, and with enough of its own emergency rescue/medical service manpower. Up to 500 operatives specially trained in first deployment and with its own transportation system.

• To provide timely assistance which can be deployed 24/7 within a radius of 1,500 miles of a given GERT base, that reaches any disaster or emergency situation within 1 to 6 hours.• To supplement and/or to support the GERT Member Countries or Provinces' emergency services and resources with GERT emergency expertise, rescue personnel, emergency medical, food and shelter services.

Having clear guidelines on who does what, when, the extent of involvements and closure of operation and post recovery.

• Planning scenarios and joint emergency training exercises.• Emergency employment of victims to assist in disaster recovery efforts.• Determine and help planning in reconstruction projects, housing & post reconstruction long term.

Help provide assistance with Humanitarian, Animalitarian and Environmental (HEA) prevention and education projects

• Reduce the cost of providing aid.• Help curb the existing corruption in delivering aid.

GERT can assist Regional Members within a Member Country. Agreement can help reduce the needless loss of lives:

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Regional Host Country (RHC) is the country hosting the Regional GERT Base

Regional Member or Provinces/Countries (RMPC) are countries- and provinces of other countries - within the region of their GERT base. Each having an Agreement with GERT Organization, Host Country and others in their Regional Member Countries, each agreeing to also having a Liaison Officer Stationed at GERT Base.

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Regional Member or Provinces/Countries (RMPC)

GERT Base

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Member and Host Country Agreement

Member and Host Country Agreement with GERT

Requirements asked of Member Country. GERT Organization will ask for: Having immediate access to the disaster scene without ‘Red Tape’ requirement e.g. Passports, Import Fees, Visa Fees or Custom Inspections GERT Base Sovereignty Sovereignty and Borderless Passage Ways to and from GERT Bases Direct air, land and water passage to and from major disasters or emergency situations Member Country Enrollment Fees Participation in the ISEA Foundation and funding program Help in forming a National, States and local ISEA groups in their country Liaisons between GERT Bases and Member Country

Member Country Liaison Officer Member Country Emergency Services (HCES) Member Country Agencies and Organizations (HCAOs)

Develop working protocols with Member countries Open Door Policies

Host Country: Gate Inspection Facility Freedom to Roam GERT Base Observance of Local Law and Customs off base

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Incorporate a new international efforts with a global umbrella-networking center and support services for other non-profit Agencies, organization and the international community working with issues related to major disasters and emergencies situations; and with humanitarian, animalitarianand environmental prevention education and intervention projects needs.

Likewise, GERT teams would cooperate with any existing NGOs or other international agencies and organizations already participating in disaster relief operations.

GERT will Supporting other Aide Agencies and Organizations

Each GERT Base would maintain contacts with any such organizations operating within its area of responsibility, with an aim toward cooperation and pooling of resources in the event of disaster.

Help with clearances and red tape Develop an international networking environment and clearing house system Pre-planning and utilization of resources and services Transportation from their nearest GERT Base with their personnel, equipment and supplies Aid in the delivery and accomplishing of their missions and services. Communications The use of GERT personnel housing & mess hall Loan of rescue equipment Support Transportation Services

International Aide Agencies and Organizations

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International Sport, Entertainment and Arts Foundation

Many of them already participate disaster related causes and projects. In turn they depend on their fans, patrons, clients or consumers for their survival...

Who else is better suited to be the caretakers of mankind, animals and that of mother earth than the Arts, Entertainment and Sports World?

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International Sports, Entertainers and Artists Foundation (ISEA)will be GERT ’s official GOVERNING body and FINANCIAL support organization.

Sports figures, entertainer artists, related “pleasure” and recreational industries would be interested because they have a vested, intrinsic, interest in this ward ship we call “Earth”: us, our animals and our environment!

Many of them already participate in disaster relief related causes and projects. In turn they depend on their fans, patrons, clients or consumers for their survival.......!

What others are better suited to be the caretakers of mankind, animals and ‘mother earth’ than the Arts, Entertainment and Sports World?

ISEA would encapsulate and restrict its concerns with only worldwide programs, projects and services in 4 major areas:

1. Emergencies and Disasters 2. Humanitarian 3. Environmental 4. Animalitarian *

* (Animalitarian coined here to mean “Caring or having concern for animals& wildlife”)

International Sports, Entertainers and Artists Foundation (ISEA) will be GERT ’s official GOVERNING body and be the FINANCIAL care takers .

• SEA will be composed of volunteer sports figures, entertainers and artists as well other interested parties from around the world willing be the care takers.

• Sports figures, entertainer artists, related “pleasure” and recreational industries would be interested because it has a vested intrinsic interest they depend on their fans, patrons, clients or consumers for their survival...

• Many of them already participate disaster related causes and projects.

Who else is better suited to be the caretakers of mankind, animals and that of mother earth than the Arts, Entertainment and Sports World?

These concern artists, entertainers, writers, crafts persons, architects, and sports figures can also help bring attention and interest to GERT Concept.

Once a year, ISEA member country representatives ISEA Conference to set goals, new objectives, new or alter existing GERT programs, consider funding request by other agencies and organizations and agree on the next year fiscal budget.

International Sport, Entertainment and Arts Foundation

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Funding GERTThe concept is to add a 1% tax on “pleasure!” called a “Pleasure Tribute”. It is based on the ability to pay according to his or her income at the price - at point of sale - of Sport, Entertainment, Art, recreational

activities and/or their products.

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Admission tickets to sporting, entertainment, cultural events, amusement parks, art museums, natural museums, zoological parks, live & movie theaters, entertainment venues & establishments concerts and the like

On the sale of books, CDs, DVDs, records, tapes, music sheets, sports equipment, musical instruments, art and craft worksVacation related Ski, beach and mountain

resorts, adventure park, tour buses, guides and nature interpreters.

Any paid pleasure activities establishment that wishes to be a part of Pleasure Tribute” system.

Additional funding Member Country

Enrollment FeesStartup Grants Cooperate donationsBusiness donations Private donations Endowment donations Fund RaisersWar on Disaster Bonds

Clubs and organizationsIn-Kind Donations Donation of equipment

airplanes, autos, trucks, ground equipment and watercrafts animal

pens, shipping containers, tents, clothing, blankets, wheelchairs ,ADL equipment

Example of estimate funds that is possible from these nine categories:

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Estimated Gross Income By Industry Each Category

MUSIC $16.5 billion 2012 Global trade revenue according to the IFPI.

SPORT Estimated Size of the Entire Sports Industry, U.S. 470

MOTION PICTURES U.S.A. U.S. Motion Picture Industry Statistics: $12,903,300,000

MOTION PICTURES BOLLYWOOD Bollywood generated revenues of $3-billion in 2011 -- this figure has been growing by 10 percent a year.

ECO-TOURISM Today, the ecotourism market is estimated to be in excess of $300 billion

HUNTING By 2016, revenue is expected to reach $4.5 billion.

SEX INDUSTRY The sex industry is HUGE - $57 Billion WorldwideTRAVEL, TOURISM, AND HOSPITALITY

INDUSTRYInternational tourism receipts grew to US$1.035 trillion (€740 billion) in

2011

VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY: The Video Game Industry: An $18 Billion

Totals Annual Gross Incomes $1,916,903,300,000.00 1% = $19,169,033,000.00

100% Participation

75%

Participation

50%

Participation 25% Participation 10% Participation

$19,169,033,000 $14,376,774,750 $9,584,516,500 $4,792,258,250 $1,916,903,300

Based on just the table above, if the level of income participation from only these categories

“Pleasure Tribute”

International Sport, Entertainment and Arts Foundation

ISEA will administrate “Pleasure Tribute” funding system and will be GERT’s primary funding source

These concern artists, entertainers, writers, crafts persons, architects, and sports figures can, through “Pleasure Tribute”, produce sufficient funding to operate and fund GERT’s projects, programs, and services.

Only the Board of Governors should hold the absolute Power of the Purse. All monies received must go to the ISEA.

GERT would not be allowed to raise its own funds, as a policy, but can assist in raising monies activities or events and vise-a-versa monies raised can go only to GERT’S emergency/disaster relief efforts and HEA projects, programs and services.

To accomplish this mission, ISEA would ask the World Bank to devise a worldwide system to collect 1% Pleasure Tributes directly from donors purchase credited to ISEA account. If they used a credit or bank card their bank account number can be use for tax credit deductions or if cash, a coded number on receipt that only donor can trace if the donation was received by ISEA via his or her computer or mobile phones. 26

Now that we have all the players lined up, it time to go on to the GERT’s Game Plan.

GERT’s Game Plan is to operate in an organized manner, have pre-agreements with host countries, and networking with other agencies and organizations, both local and international.

Actively participate in preplanning, prevention education programs and in projects directed to prevent disasters from happening in the first place, e.g. : like deep rooting, channel diversion and fire breaks.

Have a GERT’S Modalities, Diversity and Capability Concept” in place.

GERT’s Game Plan

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MODALLITIES

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DIVERSITY

CAPABILITY

OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS

Emergency Mode Non-Emergency Mode

• Emergency alert sounded • Liaison Officer authorization given• Determent type of response

needed• Dispatch recon , tanker and

weather aircrafts • Personnel to deployment positions• Deploy first responders• Deploy specialized equipment and

personnel

• 1/2 personnel on standby• Base maintenance• Aircraft maintenance &

rotation• Equipment maintenance• ¾ personnel on base, ¼ off

base or HEA prevention education/projects

• In service training and readiness exercises

Swap

Swap

GERT Bases are in constant readiness and active 24/7

Modes

GERT Central International Headquarters (GCIH), International Medical Arts Center (IMAC) and (Training Center CompleX (To be known as TCX (To differentiate from GERT Base 1, both will be located on the same island.

GERT Central Coordination Operational Center (IGERT Central)

As main a key center for all levels of orientations and training site all trainees. With the most advance GERT Boot Camp training with the state-of-art rescue equipment, rescue techniques and teaching prevention education.

An Curative and Medical arts will service as a the GERT emergency medical services training, Corrective Surgical and Rehabilitation Center.

A first rate Hotel, Convention and Conference Center for all related disaster research, show case of emergency products, resources , HEA preventative projects, programs and services.

Both TCX and GERT bases will have personnel resident centers with shopping mall with stores, beauty and barbershop, shoes and alteration, shops, theaters, restaurants, bars, fast foods, including ethnic fast foods and schools, library which are also linked to other internet and social sources. 30

GERT Operational Headquarters for GCIH- IMAC-TCX

One must keep in mind that everyone living at the main complex and GERT Base One is 400 miles away from any island or 800 or more from any large cities.

GERT will have its own International Communication, Television Village (ICTV), Emergency Radio Broadcasting International Network (ERBIN), Public Relation Media Center and Data Center.

GERT Emergency Response Center (GERC)

GERT Emergency Response Center (GERC)•GERT Monitoring Center (GMC)•Tactical Air Commands (TAC) System•Logistics Operational Center (LOC)•GERT Logistics Air Command (GLAC)•GOPS Communication Center (GCC)•Global Disaster Forecasting, Prevention and Preparedness Research Services (DFPP)

Actual emergencies operations will be carried out by Member Country/GERT Joint Co-command Operational Center (MCGJOC) staging areas.

The GERT Monitoring Center will be the nerve center, keeping a watchful eye for any signs of an emergency or disasters warning signs, geophysical disasters – earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions; weather, (a hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, drought, blizzard, avalanche); developing problems such as diseases, pestilence, famine or refugees from neighboring regions; major wildfires, plant explosions, building collapses, transportation wrecks (train ,ships or air); environmental emergencies situations , like major oil spills, pollutions, nuclear accidents or leaks. ) or other major animal related problems

It will coordinate all support services between all bases, additional manpower, supply, equipment, transportation , distribution a systems. With a computerized and centralized operational logistic control of all warehouses at each base and supply distribution systems .

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It is at this level where all planning and coordination activities will be done between GERT Bases and Member Countries.

High Probability Forecasting Services (HPFS)GERT would carry-out extensive research on Member Country’s major emergency/disaster, studying past emergencies and disasters, examining the types and frequencies of each and how they were handled, and using such data in preparedness, prevention projects, prevention, pre-planning, pre-arranging, pre-training, and pre-packaging ethnicity food relief supplies to be airlifted to a site.

Disaster Prevention and Self Help Rescues Education Services (DPSSRE)Preparedness and self- help rescues techniques education programs tailored for each of the participating member countries.

Disaster Intervention Services Prevention (DPIS)GERT will help put in place, with the member countries, preventative project/efforts to offset the cost of lives, destruction and recovery cost of an emergency/disaster by pre-emptive efforts of disaster research, re-organization of emergency resources and preventative projects, programs and services, e.g. reforestation of mud prone areas, clean-ups of environmentally damaged sites, relocation of animals from damaging crops farm land help alternatives to animals poaching by hiring poacher to guard the animal.

• High Probability Forecasting Services (HPFS)• Disaster Prevention and Self Help Rescues Education Services (DPSHRE) • Disaster Intervention Services Prevention (DPIS)

Global Disaster Forecasting, Prevention and Preparedness Research Services (DFPP)

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Global Emergency Response Teams (GERT) bases can respond to any major disaster or massive emergency situations including human or animals and/or environmental e.g. nuclear contamination and/or biological disasters.

GERT will have its own worldwide bases each supported with facilities and base airports; air, land and watercraft transportation; communication, television and radio broadcasting; base equipment and supply; operational warehouses and distribution systems.

Each GERT base can reduce the high costs of providing services by maintaining smaller groups of highly specially trained personnel and state-of-the-art special equipment that can drawn from the base, and/or additional equipment that can be dispatched at a moments notice from adjoining bases.

Additional manpower will already be on standby at these adjoining bases, ready to be called into service to supplement existing services, or called as replacements for exhausted GERT Personnel.

GERT BASE ONE

GERT BASES

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Help can be immediately dispatched from any one of its strategically placed bases (within a 1,500 mile radius of each other) and only at the invitation of the country or by the country liaison officer based at GERT Bases.

More help can be dispatched at a moment's notice from adjoining bases, already on standby, ready to be called into service to supplement existing services or called as replacements for exhausted GERT Personnel.

Each base can meet any eventuality, even if a base cannot function or is temporarily out of service due to exhausted personnel returning from a mission needing rest and time to reorganize.

GERT Bases Connecting with Adjoining GERT Base Support

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Or…..if a GERT base has been rendered inoperative by some calamity, or if a base is known to be in impending danger, personnel, emergency equipment and supplies can be taken to adjoining bases not at risk

In this context please see Kiribati, described in detail below. It is centrally located, but in a high prone disaster area where these islands are thought to be sinking because of global warming. (Some research shows that they are not sinking but actually rising).

Accessibility to all GERT Bases East and West, as well over the North and South Poles.

Each GERT Base will be self sub staining:• Computer/Communications Facility Back-up • Sewer Treatment Plant Facility• Water Desalination & Reusable water Treatment Plant

Facility• Power Generation Plants with Solar, Wind or Sea

Power Systems Facility• Fuel and Liquid Supply Depot • Warehouses for emergency food, shelters, rescue

equipment, base supply and maintenance.

Self Sustaining

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GERT BASES AIRPORTS Because of overcrowded airports and airspace, each GERT Base will have its own airport or share a civil or military airport runway, but the GERT Base buildings would be built as described above.

Where absolutely essential, floating island bases and airports would be built.

‘Solar Roads’ has the concept of using solar powered hexagonal panels to generate solar power from runways and use it to animate light up and change tarmac and runways layouts by the control tower.

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Because trying to find aircraft is very difficult during a disaster, GERT will have a wide assortment of aircrafts of its own available 24/7.

Different missions require different support aircraft.

Different aircrafts are needed in different times of the year and be rotated as in fire suppression, snow and water aircrafts.

In the early stages, many types of aircraft will be used, e.g. purchased, military surplus, donated or loaned, until GERT can purchase its own, designed and built for mission specifications for quick major disaster deployment, loading and extraction size.There are many retired maintenance crews already trained in most of these aircraft who can be recruited.

Our Own GERT Air Force!

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GERT Specialty Vehicles and Trucks

When mobility, accessibility and compactness counts, GERT will have the right vehicles to response as needs dictates.

New vehicles need to be designed and built for major disasters or situations, carrying more people at a time, special terrain vehicles for quick disaster deployment, extraction and mission specifications.

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GERT Water Crafts and Ships

Where accessing areas that can only be done safely by water, such as villages, islands with no landing or clear area for landing aircrafts or parachuting in, Air cushion boats, Air boats, Island hoppers /Landing Crafts, Riverboats, and Water Ski Crafts are some of the methods GERT will employ to gain access to remote places

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There is much life saving equipment on the market to help rescuers to locate and rescue. Equipment including small, light weight, compact, field equipment and transportation.

But what equipment to buy when you don’t what and where you will need it?

GERT can pre-package equipment for any type of disaster and QUICKLY distribute where it is needed.

Rescue equipment is unlimited, but who can effort it?

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Global Emergency Response Teams

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47And Purser/Accounting Team (PAT)

TAC Air Recon and/or Mobile Command Center (ARMCC)

With authorization from the Liaison of member country experiencing the disaster or emergency situation, Recon aircraft can be deployed as the forward observers of developing natural disasters such as volcanoes, severe storms, oil spills or fires, including wildfires and flooding areas.

With reports and images sent in by Recon aircraft, the GERT Commanders and the Liaison Officer will discuss any existing pre-planned scenarios, as well as any other options or situations that might call for a specific need or a number of needs and require different levels of response(s).

Air Command Center or Ground Mobile Command Center will mobilize all necessary equipment and manpower to the appropriate emergency or disaster site or sites, and immediately commence emergency operations and relief efforts of the GERT first major deployment arrive.

TAC Air Recon Aircraft 48

Interior view of TAC Air Recon Aircraft

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Weather Observation Aircraft

Air Traffic Control Aircraft

Air Refueling Tanker

At the same ARMCC air craft deployed, support air crafts are immediate deployed it.

Support Air Crafts

First Main Deployment

GERT during emergency/disaster mode will draws its personnel from many sources at the GERT base, Medical Services, Emergency Room, Medical Urgent Care (MUC) many other non-related other on base personnel positions and pre-trained to serve in disasters or emergency situation.

On the first deployment, is the full GERT Team and equipment (already pre-packed with the demands of the region they serve, e.g. The season, the terrain, population ethic needs) to meet any one or a combination of emergency disaster actions to save lives and caring for victims.

The first deployment aircrafts are Return to their base and ready for Third deployment if needed.

On the first deployment, is the full GERT Team and equipment (already pre-packed with the demands of the region they serve, e.g. The season, the terrain, population ethic needs) to meet any one or a combination of emergency disaster actions to save lives and caring for victims.

The first deployment aircrafts are return to their base and ready for third deployment if needed.

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Since there will be a point where any or all the first three GERT deployed personnel will be finished with their specific operations, they remain able to help in the post emergency duties with the VAT and other teams as well repack equipment and supply for the return home bases.

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Joint Command Operational Center (JCOC)

After GERT Co-Command teams start to arrive at a JCOC operational staging site, the same Reconnaissance Aircraft and Recon Teams can become an Air Command Center and will coordinate with main GERT Base and with the Host Country Liaison Officer on base until a JCOC Ground Mobile Command Center can be setup. ARMCC personnel can be transferred from Air Command Teams to aide Joint Command Operational Center (JCOC)

The GERT Co-command Operational personnel and their support team plus all support equipment, vehicles and operational trailer and/or command tents will be deployed by another cargo/passenger aircraft.

Should the situation require it, additional JCOC Ground Mobile Command Centers can be established because there are other impacted sites, too far from the each other and operational control is needed more locally in order to be to be more effective.

Member Country/GERT Co-command Operational Center

(COC)

Communication Support Unit

When Disaster or Emergency Situations Strike, Who is in Charge?

GERT vs. HCES? Simply, it’s their Country.

It's their call!

To coordinate local manpower for rescuers assistance and commandeer vehicle, heavy equipment and buildings for immediate emergency action to save lives.

They are in constant communication with Recon aircraft or Co-command Operational Center.

Each Coordinator will have a laptop and computer space monitor built into each vehicle with referenced data and maps on his/her assigned area, with a video phone link to each of the computers to download to Co-Command. These are also linked to Recon aircraft and can be relayed to GERT Base Command to give them first-hand assessments of the situation and to call in additional equipment and manpower as required.

Emergency Assessment Coordinator Para-Medics Rescue Services CoordinatorResources Assessment Coordinator Structural Assessment Coordinator Victim Assistance Team Coordinator Utilities Assessment Coordinator

Emergency Ground Assessment Teams (EDGAT)

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The main mission of the EDGAT is assessment of the crisis from ground level as an advance team for Co-Command Operation Center, updating information within their assigned area. They will see what Recon cannot see: inside structures, utilities damage, coordinate Rescues, and assess safe, undamaged, or partly damaged sites for immediate local triage use in suitable areas for medical and victim center resources.

There are six EDGAT team members that comprisehighly trained, expert professionals, plus driver and Communications Officer .with a four wheel drive Hummer or like vehicle with nite-sight, fully equipped with state of the art communication and GPS navigation equipment

Humanitarian Emergency Rescue Team (HERT)

Each Host Country (within the Host Country) will offer many different challenges depending on the type of disaster or massive emergency situation, the weather, the climate, terrain, availability of accessible roads, waterways, the range of the impacted area, airports and landing fields.

The diversity and the flexibility of each GERT Base region and the ability to bring any needed emergency equipment, personnel and resources to meet the many obstacles that might be presented.

•Air Rescue & Emergency Paramedics Services (AREPS)•Cycle Emergency Rescue & Paramedics Services (CERPS)•ATV /Ambulances/Disabled Elderly Transport Services (ADETS)•Water & Underwater Rescue Services (WURS)

GERT can provide emergency assistance with manpower and equipment for immediate rescues, flood and rapid water recues, inflatable life jackets, rubber dinghies, building-trapped victims, emergency first aid, evacuations from life threatening situations to safer areas, preparing for medical transfers and assisting other team members

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Environmental Emergency Response Team (EERT)

EERT is designed to provide a rapid response to environmental or biological hazard emergency disaster or situation scenes or exposed areas in host countries, when requested, with containment equipment and supplies to respond immediately and/or help the control and disposal of hazardous environmental waste worldwide.

EERT can provide containment and portable clean-up equipment to prevent further damage to the environment in an emergency situation with immediate transportation of specially trained international experts, agencies, organizations, additional GERT personnel, GERT staff or volunteers, if other resources are not immediately available.

[Add examples of these types of disasters.]

Additional portable environmental clean-up equipment would immediately follow, with specially trained environmental or biohazard emergency personnel staff and volunteers, ground crew, and equipment.

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Animalitarian* Emergency Rescue Teams (AERT)

Animalitarian Emergency Rescue Team (AERT) will have personnel trained in animal and/or marine life emergency rescues, e.g.: whale beaching or lost seals/dolphins in rivers, trapped animals, animal containment, control, supervise cleaning animals in oil spills, help damaged zoos and/or aquariums, relocation from any environmental disaster.

Animal food, medical supplies and small specialized equipment needed by local rescuers can also be sent by air, and dropped with parachuted capsule tubes and/or with AERT members.

Certain key staff and volunteers, will be trained in search, rescue , recovery of injured animals, feeding of large of suffering animals, first aid, cleaning of animals or birds contaminated with oil or other materials, and emergency euthanasia.

* (Animalitarian coined here to mean “Caring or having concern for animal & wildlife”)

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•Medical Services and Support Teams (TMS&S)•Mobile Trauma Emergency Medical Units •Central/Mini Field Hospitals•Isolation Care Unit•Mobile Body recovery and •Coroner Services (BRCS)•Veterinary Trauma Center (VTC )

MEDS can help to supplement member country own existing with additional medical staff and supplies during emergency crises.

If need be, MEDS can setup a full pledge emergency field hospital and can operate in a rural villages with MEDS Mini hospital and provide ground and air medic-evactransportation to main hospital.

Body recovery and identification with pictures and GPS point of recovery can be send to a Missing Person Computer Center to bring closure to their families and friends.

Medical Emergency Disaster Services (MEDS )

Mini Emergency Field Hospitals

Isolation Care Unit

Central Field

Hospital

GERT Personnel/

Medical Supply Vehicle

Trauma Emergency Medical Units

Veterinary Field

Hospital

Field Track Ambulance

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Victim Assistance Teams (VAT)

Victim Assistance Center

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Mini-Victim Assistance Centers (MVAC) Victim Assistance Center (VAC) Facilitator and Interpreter Services (FIS) Crisis Relief Workers, Counseling and Psychological Services (CCPS) Immediate Victim Employment Services Children and Missing Persons Location Services .

VAT will setup Mini-Victim Assistance Centers (MVAC), drawing on local manpower and services currently available in their immediate area. MVAC will focal their attention incoming victims not needing immediate medical care but are in need of assistance and services.

Most likely the first contact will be in the field with MVAC member, who provide the immediate care and if need be they can referred to a VAC, if nearby, to better resolve victim concerns.

VAC are full service centers where victims are provide warm clothing, showers and with packaged meals until Mess Hall units arrive.

An Trauma Recovery Area with Crisis Relief Workers, Counseling, Psychological Services and volunteers, Immediate Victim Employment Services; Facilitator and Interpreter Services are made available.

VAT will search for lost children and missing persons via computer links with news media & agencies.

VAT will assist animal care facilities and institutions with veterinary medical assistance or evacuation assistance, if needed.

Most often refugees come seeking employment, safety from a their war torn country or plagued with famine flood into our member country whom Is already over burden with domestic problems of their own has now tries to feed and house them. They are often unwanted, feared that they may take jobs away their citizenry and/or feel that it is the not responsibility of the Member country to care for them.

Often, if the refugees are forcibly sent back to their country, often maybe punished for leaving . If the refugee population is huge or too remote for adequate assistance, therefore the Member County may ask GERT for further assistance to cope with their dilemma.

Famine and Refugee Relief ServicesPost Recovery ServicesFamine & Refugee Relief Services

Long Term Shelters & Tents CitiesSpecial Situations Aid Victims Special Needs

Decentralize victims populations into smaller organized and manageable

camps. There should not be more than 100 tents or container units in each

relief camps. This should help to reduce

security risks as well as crowd

control.

PDR, employing many different tasks at the same time to achieveimmediate relief and to not prolonging the process of recovery.

Providing long term housing for staff, volunteers, victims and special situation/special needs victims, with safe houses; tents; arrange for camps sites; or trailers; shelters for displaced animals; adoption and resource centers; storage shelters for food.

Health and medical care, rehabilitation restoration, health recovery, education, training, employment and/or recreation facilities.

Post Recovery Services Long Term Shelters & Tents CitiesSpecial Needs Situations

Post Disaster Relief Services (PDR)

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Immediate Victim Employment Services Food, water, consumable supply and Utility Purchases

PAT having direct financial responsibility and accountability to make on site

PAT payments directly to victims employed during crisis and visible

contracted services or for field purchases, thus by reduce the fraud and cost

of providing aide..

Immediate paid employment of disaster victims to work In the impacted areas,

have a designated pool of equipment, supply warehouses that can be used and

supplied as need in the impacted area. e.g. such as road clearing, cleanups,

recovery and security of victims property, business and their schools;

reconstruction of needed roads; preparing sites and setup of tent cities or

shipping container housing; distribution of needed foods and living supply.

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Purser/Accounting Team (PAT)

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Some victims are disabled, elderly, mentality ill, others have hidden

disabilities, sever emotional personal problems and many other medical

problems will need care givers and special facility or group home services.

PAT will make on the spot payments for these services and have MED make

inspection and recommendations for for the type of care given.

Special Needs Services

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SheltersShelter in a Box website: "We deliver the essentials people need to begin rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of a disaster. When we send boxes, each one is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for a family, thermal blankets and groundsheets, water storage and purification equipment, solar lamps, cooking utensils, a basic tool kit, mosquito nets and children’s activity pack. For colder countries, we can deliver winterised boxes that include more blankets and groundsheets and a thermal liner that fits between the inner and outer layers of the tent retaining more heat." ShelterBox, ShelterBox, Water-Ma-Trout, Helston,

Cornwall, TR13 0LW.

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Then there corruption in form of misinformation inflated costs of

environmental and structural damages (vs. structures economics and

business needs) and in bribes to be paid not to have further delays in

recovery efforts.

Politics also plays a major part in delays such command, and control

issues (local vs. National) comes to play when no preplanning, field

exercises and community planning and/or preparation just does not

exist.

Discrimination as who will get aide first based on the political

affiliations, religious preference, social ladder status.

CORRUPTION

• Incomes• Expenditures

Accountability

• No secrets• Open Door Policy

Disclosures

• Pre-agreements• Contingencies

Agreements

• Publicity• Public Involvement

High Visibility

• Purser on Site• Pre-Contracting

Direct Pay

Corruption, fraud and dishonesty Corruption, fraud and dishonesty run rampant during disasters, pubic officials taking bribes for their

public services, so call non-profit aid groups who are entrusted with the donations/funds/cash money to bring aid; but instead the money goes in to the personal pockets for personal gain of officials, agency

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If we can have arm forces in readiness to kill each other, why can we not have equal forces in readiness to save each other lives!

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Major disasters and emergency situations must met with equal powerful force to negate further damage and loss of life.

Why cannot we have same type of international force and have just as much powerful capabilities to deal with major disasters and emergency situations all over the world, no matter what or who is responsible for the catastrophe?

Major disasters and emergency situations should be treated as a human right issue, paramount to all issues in human rights declarations of united nation.

Nothing can be done to the damaged has already been done or the death that already occurred during the initial impact or occurrence.

But most important, the GERT concept is intended as a means to save more lives for the period of major disasters or emergency situations and all throughout the lingering aftermaths until the member country can resume care of its citizen.

This paper is offered as a possible suggestion, it now needs global input and discussion by more learned men and women than this author could offer alone.

Now asking you, the readers to get involved. - There is no other way!

By having the arts, entertainment and sports figures governing the stewardship of GERT, their high public visibility can help curb the corruption, the fraud and dishonesty of public officials, agencies and organizational personnel. - There is no other way!

By refocusing and redirecting our approaches to humanitarian, animalitarian and environmental issues. It is the author’s hope that the reader could see the long-range implications, in making the world a more responsive and stabilizing force and in hope of obtaining world peace. It won’t come overnight, just as the global issues did not come overnight. - There is no other way!

We need to involve the participation of the whole world by demanding the right to help each other, our brother animals and our environment in a collective effort of resolving problems that we all have creative. - There is no other way!

One and all must be open to others and their input, listen with their hearts and with a non-condemning mind. Even the meek can offer ideas and solutions. - There is no other way!

Author ‘s personal note:

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Get involved with the GERT Concept

Contact us, tell us you like the concept and want take an active role in getting your countrymen and your

government interested in this concept.

Ask your sports figures, entertainers and artists as well other interested parties from your country to volunteer from

around the world to be the care takers . Many of them already participate disaster related causes and projects. In turn

they depend on you, their fans, patrons, clients or consumers for their survival...

Ask related “pleasure” and recreational industries to become interested and become supporter of this concept because

have a vested intrinsic interest in this ward ship we call “Earth”, us, our animals and our environment! Tell them you

like the idea of adding 1% tax on “pleasure!” activities, entertainment and products called a “Pleasure Tribute”.

Tell themAny paid pleasure activities establishment that wishes to be a part of Pleasure Tribute” system.

That it is based on the ability to pay according to his or her income at the price at point of sale of Sport, Entertainment, Art, recreational activities and/or their products. e.g. Admission tickets to Sporting, Entertainment,

cultural events, amusement parks, art museums, natural museums, zoological parks, live & movie theaters, entertainment venues & establishments concerts and the like.

Ask them to look at PowerPoint Presentation or read this book and sign your petition of support to sent to your

government to support this concept, with this Power Point presentation !

Get involve in forming a local interest community group in your community!

Remember: Financial help is need but presently it not tax deductible!

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Contact Us

Frederick Gilbert

114/14 Moo 1

Tambon Sannamag

Ampher San Sai

Chiang Mai,50210 Thailand

082 3849843

capthooksthai@yahoo.com

Soon to be known as:

Global Emergency Response Teams

Concept Research Center

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Ampher San Sai

Chiang Mai, 50210

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