Paul McHale
Paul McHale
Paul F. McHale, Jr.is an American politician. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. Additionally, from 1993 to 1999, he represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. In 1992, McHale defeated former U.S. Congressman Donald L. Ritter for his seat representing the Lehigh Valley in the U.S. Congress. Currently, McHale is the President of Civil Support International LLC, which is a consulting firm that advises private contractors...
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U.S. military forces executed the largest, fastest, most comprehensive and most responsive civil support mission ever. In a domestic relief operation unprecedented in scale, over 72,000 federal military and National Guard forces flowed into the Gulf Coast region over a 12-day period to assist fellow Americans in distress.
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We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again,
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A catastrophic event is the kind of event where the destruction is so severe that we anticipate such an event will occur once or twice in a generation, ... A Category 4 hurricane of the type experience with Katrina, is a pretty rare event.
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We prepared well. We were not passive. We were not slow.