Let me clear this up for you guys. First off, someone left out the two other military forces. The USAF has an active duty base downtown LA called LA Air Force Base. You have Edwards, Beale, Travis and Vandenburg all in Cali. The other thing is the USCG.
Each base has procedures for evacutations and for mass casualties. The command centers are manned 24/7 by highly trained troops. They aren't going to go out into any town. They'd hold up on base. The assest on base take priority of anything else.
The National Guard is in charge of disaster response, now one else.
When an emergency kicks off, you have what is called a Telephone Recall. That's what you heard at the start of the show with Mike and crew.
The call is issued from the top down. The commander calls his subordinates like
Angel, Angel calls Mike, Mike calls
Saul. You keep going until you have 100% accountability.
We don't know the size of the reserve unit but you can guess that most didn't make it and the others ignored the recall. You have to take into consideration the distance you have to travel to get to your unit as well. You aren't just going to be next door. You're assigned to the nearest unit and that's all. People could have lived out west or hundreds of miles away. Remember, they only have to come in One weekend a month.
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