VOL. 3/ISSUE 2
Inside the VA: Planning for hurricanes, chemical spills and zombies
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
The SEAL has landed
Patrick McCallister FOR VETERAN VOICE
patrick.mccallister@yahoo.com
This is the fifth in a series, Inside the VA, a closer look at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ three functions, the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits Administration and the National Cemetery Administration. This week Veteran Voice looks into one of the lesser known components of the VHA—its role in local, regional and national emergency planning. T. Michael Self spends his days thinking about hurricanes, chemical spills, cyber-attacks, infectious diseases, solar flares, and zombie apocalypses. OK, he probably never considers zombie apocalypses. The risk assessment for that is pretty low and there are lots of potential disasters in line ahead of zombies. But, if the zombies ever come, he’ll probably be ready, and so will the Department of Veteran Affairs. Self isn’t a panophobic man. He’s the emergency manager at
See EMERGENCY page 5 Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Navy SEAL (retired) Rick Kaiser, executive director of the UDT Navy Seal Museum in Fort Pierce, took part in the annual Muster by joining in on the precision parachutist display before switching hats to his role as host and emcee of the event Saturday, Nov. 9.