The Defense Department will have assigned a "defense coordinating officer" to each of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 10 regional offices by June 1, a top Pentagon official announced this week. Stationing military officers at the FEMA locations will be a key part of the federal government's ongoing efforts to revamp emergency response plans for natural disasters in the United States, according to Paul McHale, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense. Those plans describe how DOD, the Department...
