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Shaun Miller, DDE ‘20

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As an Assistant Chief for the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), I am responsible for the delivery of the state’s emergency management programs within the 35 counties that comprise the Southeast Texas Region – a land area slightly larger than the state of Maine. In my capacity, I support local city and county governmental jurisdictions in the execution of their emergency management programs. I routinely liaise with locally elected officials and their appointed emergency management coordinators in all phases of emergency management (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation). During this disaster, I’ve been working with local, state and federal partners in the ordering for and delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE), planning for and setting up alternate care facilities in the event our primary care facilities become overwhelmed, establishing community based testing sites, and setting conditions for the long-term recovery from this pandemic. I continue to assist U.S. Congressional Representatives as they conduct various town hall meetings with their constituents to better inform them of the ongoing response. Additionally, as we know the financial repercussions from this disaster will be far reaching and will impact all facets of local institutions, I am also responsible for assisting local governments and other eligible entities navigate the various federal reimbursement funding streams.

COL Shaun P. Miller, CEM, PMP
Distance Class of 2020
Assistant Chief
Texas Division of Emergency Management

 

Monte Dunard, DDE ‘14

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The President and the FAA say I am essential personnel for national security/economics and that I must continue to fly commercial jets even though the virus is impacting crews to some degree. I fly B787 for American Airlines typically to China and the far east. Those destinations are now cancelled. I then flew to Madrid and Amsterdam but they are now cancelled also. I did fly full loads of primarily US citizens out of Shanghai, Inchon, S. Korea, Madrid, and Amsterdam well into the crisis, i.e. February and March, and there were a lot of happy faces especially on the last flight out of Shanghai to Dallas. I have not worked at any level other than the local level. I have made and shipped out about 60 homemade face masks for NYC medical staff use (masks4medical). I did not learn how to sew or fly at the USAWC, but I did learn respect, understanding, humility, and cooperation in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous environment such as we are experiencing now. Former CO HMM-774 Marine CH-46s; Former Director of Marine Corps Lessons Learned while mobilized 2003-2009; Pilot American Airlines 1990- present mobilized for Gulf 1 and Gulf 2.

Col Monte Dunard, USMCR (Ret)
Distance Class of 2004

Scott Desormeaux, USAWCF ‘16

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My Brigade has overseen the set up and execution of testing sites in the New Orleans area. We have also been the primary military advisors to the Incident Command team establishing the “field hospital” in the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. We also are staffing food banks and providing multiple logistics missions. We have soldiers working all across the state.

Scott J. Desormeaux
Army War College Fellow 2016
COL, IN
256 IBCT, Commanding

Xavier Stewart, RES ’09

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I am an advisor to many organizations, boards, church groups, local, state and federal entities as a Respiratory Care Practitioner, former hospital administrator, and public health SME.  I have many papers on the subject and warned of the inevitability in 2014 and 2017 internationally.  My published work on Pandemics can be found in many nations, translated in more than a dozen languages.  My paper was published by the US Army War College on the CBNRE/WMD All Hazards Schoolhouse as an SSI paper during my War College tenure 2008-2009 (Seminar 7).  I am on the short list to be activated because of my skill sets should the Pandemic worsen.

BG (Ret) Xavier Stewart, CHPP, RPO, RRT, F.ACFE, BCFM, BCFE, NR-EMT
Resident Class of 2009
Principal, Stewart and Associates
Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Division;
Homeland Defense
DOD and Intelligence Community
Public Health
Respiratory Care Practitioner
Board Certified Forensic Examiner

Doug Mastriano, RES ’10

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Doug Mastriano is working the full range of COVID-19 issues hard as a Pennsylvania State Senator from the 33rd District.  He is always “on duty” and is advancing legislation and policy issues critical for a successful balance of health, the economy, and community well-being and safety.   He prepares and sends daily updates about the crisis to the members of his district communities, and he includes the status of legislative actions and policy issues that affect them, many of the legislative issues initiated, coordinated, and advocated personally by him.  He provides critical updates on infection rates, areas of risk, and also organizations that are extending their helping hands to others.  

COL (Ret) Doug Mastriano, Ph.D.
Resident Class of 2010