Mark your calendar to have lunch with Lieutenant Colonel Christopher W. Wendland!
Who: All interested MIIS community
What: Discussion and Q&A on: Military Support to Foreign Disaster Response
When: Tuesday, December 1 (12:15-1:15)
Where: Morse B106
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher W. Wendland
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher W. Wendland is the current U.S. Army War College Fellow at MIIS. LTC (P) Wendland worked as a Military Crisis Response Planner at United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) from 2009-2012. He worked alongside representatives from the Department of State, USAID, and the United Nations to develop complementary disaster response plans for a number of devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear reactor meltdowns, tropical storms, and flooding) and will provide an overview of the U. S. Government process to provide U. S. military support with anecdotal stories from the following response efforts: Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Haiti, Japan, Thailand, and Nepal.