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Join us as we dive into the emotional and psychological challenges service members and their families face when deployment ends and reintegration begins. You'll hear practical tips from MilSpouses to help navigate the ups and downs of family dynamics and disrupted routines. And find out why open and honest communication ahead of the big homecoming can make all the difference for a smooth transition. You'll also learn creative ways for maintaining connection with your service member when they're deployed, such as helping your children create a “kisses for Daddy” jar and care packages. Most importantly, find out why it's important to give yourself and your family grace during the reintegration process. Host Bruce Moody speaks with Susan Shannon, a clinical counselor from the Naval Station Mayport in Mayport, Florida, and military spouses Ashley Carmichael, Jacqueline Laureano, Hanna Edenfield, Philline Windsor and Shaquita McKinney. Visit Military OneSource at https://www.militaryonesource.mil/resources/millife-guides/post-deployment-reintegration/ to learn about the five key stages of reunion and reintegration that can help make the transition easier for everyone. Bruce Moody is a public affairs specialist with the Defense Department's Military OneSource. Share your feedback about this podcast as well as ideas for future episodes by visiting the Military OneSource Podcasts Feedback Form at https://public.militaryonesource.mil/podcast-feedback. The Military OneSource Podcast series is an official resource of the Defense Department. For more information, visit MilitaryOneSource.mil or call 800-342-9647. Military OneSource is your 24/7 connection to information, answers and support to help you reach your goals, overcome challenges and thrive.

Chilly morning with "feels like" temperatures in the 20s • Skies are clearing this morning with chilly temperatures moving in • 30s this morning for most local neighborhoods by sunrise • An inland freeze will occur this morning and linger through sunrise • Feels like temperatures will be in the lower to mid 20s when you factor in the wind • Highs today will only be in the upper 40s to lower 50s under mostly sunny skies. • Freeze watch in effect for overnight and tomorrow morning for most inland local neighborhoods. • Low temperature forecast is 29 degrees tomorrow morning at JIA. That would be the first time we have seen 29 degrees there since January 16th, 2023. • A few neighborhoods may briefly touch freezing tomorrow from Mayport to Fernandina Beach. • Highs tomorrow will only be in the mid 50s. • Widespread frost/freeze will be here for Thursday AM. TODAY: AM Inland Freeze, Sunny. High: 51 TONIGHT: Mostly clear and chilly. LOW: 29 (feels like temps.: mid to upper 20s) WEDNESDAY: AM Frost & Freezes, Sunny. 29/56 THURSDAY: AM Frost & Freezes, Sunny. 30/51 FRIDAY: AM Inland Freeze, Increasing clouds. Shower late. 37/63 SATURDAY: Cloudy, scattered showers. PM clearing. 53/59 SUNDAY: Frost/Inland freeze. Sunny. 33/55 MONDAY: AM Frost/Inland Freeze. Sunny. 33/61

On this week's episode of the Who Are You? Podcast we welcomed Scott Whatley. Scott is the owner of branding/advertising company, Comedian, Podcaster and a father of two. We talked about what made him want to start his comedy career, collaborating a with a Jacksonville staple to start his own open mic in Mayport, where the idea for roasting people in Neptune beach came from, his love of hunting and surfing, becoming a father and going through the adoption process and much more! For more on Scott and his business follow the links below Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottwhatleycomedy/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scottjwhatley?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

This week, WOKV recognizes Gunner's Mate Chief Justin Olsen, US Navy, stationed on the USS Cooperstown at Mayport. GMC Olsen serves as a primary Search & Rescue Swimmer, and earlier this year affected the safe rescue of a stranded mariner in distress. He will receive a medal for his heroic actions.

Alexus reports from Mayport, where the USS Mason returns home after a 9-month deployment including multiple combat engagements.

A convicted murderer known as the “Mayport Monster” for the 2003 killing of five people including his wife in the Jacksonville area may finally get his dying wish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our first official interview podcast episode, we are thrilled that we've been able to interview Jacksonville Beach local Alban Brooke, who just happens to be the head of marketing for Buzzsprout, our podcast hosting company.   Alban loves living in Jax Beach, and he's always willing to talk about why he loves it and share tips and suggestions for people who may want to visit there.   Whether you're a golfer coming to play the awesome courses, or an avid traveller looking for a Florida trip that's a little more "off the beaten path", this trip is for you.    As Heather always says, "travel like a local" !   Alban's suggestions from this episode :  BeachesMayport: "Industrially raw, with a strong naval and fishing presence."Atlantic Beach: "Tranquil and suburban, occasionally veering into the mundane."Neptune Beach: "Small-town charm meets trendy up-and-coming energy."Jax Beach: "Vibrant social scene with a mix of bars, festivals, and surf culture."Ponte Vedra: "Affluent and exclusive, focused on luxury and status."Where to stayPonte Vedra Inn ($550/night)Pool, gymRestaurants on the oceanOcean CourseLagoon CourseOne Ocean ($200/night)Palms ($215/night)Things to doBeaches: Surf, swim, sunbathe, beach cruiseIntercostal: fish, kayak, small hikes,Explore: Hanna Park up in Mayport, beach access, pond, trailsShop: shop in Atlantic Beach Town CenterGolf: TPC Sawgrass, Jax Beach, get onto private courseRestaurants & barsLunchHanger Bay - Hellfire Ramen, fried chicken, Saporro beerAngies Subs/Angies Grom - Peruvian Sub with knick nack, toasted on white, fries with ranch, sweeeet teaBearded Pig - Brisket, beansCasual DinnerValley Smoke - Brisket and bourbonTaco Lu - Banging shrimp, carne royal, and Deer & Beer (Dos X Amber)Nice dinnerO-KuNorth Beach Fish Camp - Blackened Catch with Grits, Collards & Tasso Ham GravySeafood should be fresh caught from Mayport that dayDwights - Sea Bass, ravioli, glass of wineBarsLemon Bar - Lime gatoradeCasa Marina rooftop - mixed drinkskipping Margarittaville and SurferMangosAfter the bars - Biggies PizzaOver the ditchJax ZooJaguars gameJumbo ShrimpJax TheaterTowncenter to shopAlban BrookeHead of Marketing, BuzzsproutLinkedIn | TwitterSupport the Show.

Jonathan reports on the latest military actions in the Middle East, as Mayport's USS Carney, along with the USS Gravely and the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier, were all involved in missile skirmishes recently.

Jonathan reports on the USS Carney shooting down several Houthi drones and an anti-ship ballistic missile in the Gulf of Aden. The USS Carney is one of several Mayport-based vessels deployed in the area.

Joathan reports on the latest and largest Houthi rebel attacks on Red Sea trade routes, in an attempt to impede ships headed to Israel. US and UK military ships are in the area offering support and protection, including the Mayport-based USS Mason and USS Carney.

FOX's Jonathan Savage reports on the formation of a military support group involving several Mayport-based Navy vessels, providing security and commerce support in the Red Sea, after a numbr of vessels have come under attack from drones and missiles.

In a volatile housing market, what unique strategies can military families employ to ensure stable and affordable housing, considering the limitations of BAH and frequent moves?   This episode features Elaine Morgin, a distinguished real estate agent in the Greater Jacksonville area, specializing in military relocations and VA loans. Elaine, a military spouse with over 15 years of residence in Florida, has a deeply personal connection to her work in real estate. Her role as an Accredited Military Relocation Professional has led to her successfully assisting nearly 100 families in three years and she is dedicated to providing comfort and confidence to her clients, embodying her commitment to outstanding service in the real estate industry.   Elaine discusses the unique challenges that military families face in housing, particularly regarding VA loans and the impact of market fluctuations on relocation. She shares valuable insights from her experience as a military spouse, highlighting the difficulties in securing affordable housing and employment for military spouses, and navigating the rental market. She also dispels common myths about VA loans, emphasizing their benefits and the need for more awareness and understanding among real estate agents. The discussion extends to current market trends, strategies for military families in real estate, and the potential for investment in properties near military bases. Elaine's expertise and personal experience create a rich conversation, shedding light on the complexities of real estate transactions for military personnel and their families.   If you're involved or interested in military relocations and the dynamics of the housing market under such unique circumstances, this episode is for you! [00:00 - 17:42] The Real Estate Challenges of Military Families BAH adjustments have not sufficiently matched the cost of living increases for military families Employment challenges for military spouses exacerbate the financial strain Military families often need to make significant housing decisions based on their BAH The gap between BAH and actual housing costs puts additional financial pressure on these families Military families face challenges in securing on-base housing, often resulting in long waitlists The process of relocating, especially from overseas, can be complex and stressful for military families VA loans are a vital resource for military families, offering financial stability and adaptability in various market conditions   [17:43 - 35:21] Navigating the Market: Buying and Budgeting Tactics Military families often face tighter budgets, impacting their housing affordability and options In a competitive market, agents encourage clients to initiate conversations and negotiations, regardless of offer differences Current real estate trends show a decrease in multiple offers, with buyers needing to be strategic in their bidding For military families, buying in the right area and considering rental potential is crucial for long-term financial planning Elaine emphasizes the importance of setting realistic expectations for buyers in the negotiation process Flexibility in terms and understanding market dynamics are key in successfully securing a home, especially for VA buyers Military families often face significant stress and challenges due to limited housing inventory and high demand in preferred locations Effective communication and managing expectations are crucial for real estate agents working with military families in competitive housing markets   [35:22 - 1:00:58] The Reality of VA Appraisals: What Sellers Need to Know Appraisers and inspectors have specific guidelines to ensure the safety and sanitary conditions of homes Misconceptions about VA inspections being overly stringent are outdated and not reflective of the current process VA loans require a clear Wood Destroying Organism (WDO) report, which is a standard practice in states like Florida due to termite prevalence Sellers should not dismiss VA offers based on unfounded fears about the inspection and appraisal process VA appraisers focus on visible safety issues, such as uncovered plugs or handrails, rather than in-depth structural analysis The appraisal process is similar across VA, FHA, and conventional loans, with appraisers following their specific guidelines Real estate agents play a crucial role in educating both buyers and sellers about the realities of the VA loan process The VA appraisal process is rigorous yet fair, aimed at protecting the buyer without unnecessarily complicating the sale VA loans are often misconceived as an option only for buyers without substantial savings, overlooking their favorable interest rates and financing benefits The real estate market, including VA loans, requires agents to be adept at negotiation, understanding market trends, and managing client expectations   [1:00:59 - 1:08:27] Investing in Military Housing: Opportunities and Insights Investing in real estate near military bases, like Mayport, can be a solid long-term investment due to the consistent demand for housing from military personnel Military renters are reliable tenants as their housing allowance (BAH) ensures steady rental income, and they face serious career repercussions for non-payment Property investors should consider the unique needs and lifestyles of military families, such as proximity to bases and suitable housing sizes like three-bedroom homes Military families can leverage real estate investments for financial growth, using tools like homestead laws and VA loan benefits to their advantage   [01:08:28 - 01:20:23] Making the Most of VA Loan Benefits: Assumption and Entitlements Loan assumptions can be a lengthy process, taking up to 120 days, and often require additional financial considerations, such as the difference between the owed amount and the market value For VA loan holders, transferring a loan to another VA-eligible buyer allows them to regain their entitlements, but this is not possible when transferring to a civilian buyer When considering a VA loan assumption, it's crucial to work with a knowledgeable real estate agent who can evaluate the situation and determine if it makes financial sense The current housing market offers various opportunities, including renovation loans and investing in properties near military bases, which can be particularly beneficial for long-term financial growth Quotes:   "Anytime that I'm starting an offer it's, ‘Hey, guys, what do you want your offer to look like?' Obviously, they're always going to say, ‘What is your opinion?' That's not my offer. It's your offer. You need to tell me what you want.” – Elaine Morgin   "What am I doing to keep them from being stressed? Trust the process." – Elaine Morgin   “People don't realize how easy it is to just get a VA loan.” – Elaine Morgin   “If nobody's coming into your house and looking at your house every week, at least once, twice, you need to readjust. If you've been on the market for 84 days and you haven't had a showing, you need to reposition.” – Elaine Morgin     To contact Elain Morgin, learn more about her business, and make her a part of your network, make sure to follow him on Facebook and check out her page at Coldwell Banker.   https://www.facebook.com/elaine.morgin  https://www.coldwellbanker.com/fl/fleming-island/agents/elaine-morgin/aid-P00200000FDdqtCBeOOk8CiWFhwIW4TT2uHyyAU4    If you want to build your business and become more discoverable online, Streamlined Media has you covered. 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Jonathan updates the story of the Mayport-based USS Mason assisting a Norwegian-flagged tanker that was hit by a missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels.

The JMN crew highlights some weekend events you might enjoy in the 904! Check out the Museum by Moonlight fundraiser for MOSH, and enjoy their Animation Academy exhibit. In the mood for something more immersive? Visit the King Tut Experience downtown! You've got the Jacksonville Symphony playing at Jacoby Hall! Whiskey Meyers is at the Amp, and there's lots of local music to enjoy like the Glass Camels playing in Mayport. Want to burn up some energy? Hit up the Emerald Trail 5K/10K Run, Walk, or Ride! And if you wanna just chill, it's an early start for kegs & eggs with FOX30 Sunday morning when the Jags play the Falcons at 930am!

This week the Madcaps discuss the coastal recreation spots from Fernandina to Mayport in the Northeast Florida area.  Fernandina Plaza, Fort Clinch, American Beach, Amelia Island, Big Talbot Island, Pumpkin Hill Preserve, Yellow Bluff, and Little Talbot Island are the state parks covered.  Activities discussed are: camping, hiking, birding, swimming, and history.Please subscribe! Shares and reviews are much appreciated!Get your FREE sticker from the Florida Springs Council at https://www.floridaspringscouncil.org/madcapsQuestions and comments can be emailed at thefloridamadcaps@gmail.comRyan can be found on Instagram at: the_fl_excursionistChris and Chelsey can be found at https://www.instagram.com/sunshinestateseekers/?hl=en

Action News Jax's Princess Jhane Stepherson is on-site for the re-opening ceremonies at the St. Johns River Ferry, and area residents are very excited about the increased convenience the ferry access provides between Mayport and Ft. George Island, where the difference is a 5 minute boat ride vs. an hour's drive through traffic.

Bill Austin joins JMN to discuss the Brazilian training ship "Brasil" (U-27) that will be making a port stop at Mayport today.

Today, Bryan interviews his co-host, Aaron Chan, who has some exciting news to share about the upcoming church plant, HOPE Church Mayport.You can view Aaron's video and get involved by clicking here. You can reach Aaron at aaron@rivercitybaptist.church.Connect with Bryan at pastor@rivercitybaptist.church.Connect with Luke, view resources from ChurchMediaHQ, and find exclusive Bryan Samms Podcast listener discounts at https://ChurchMediaHQ.com/Bryan.

Ep 50: Implementing the ASIM ProcessSheriff Michelle Cook and Police Chief Terry Nichols share their experiences implementing the Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist process and their tips for success. Don't miss this discussion!Bill Godfrey:Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. It's good to be back with you today. My name is Bill Godfrey. I'm your podcast host, and I have with me today two former C3 instructors as our guest stars today, both of them law enforcement leaders, and hoping that one day when they do retire-retire, we might actually get them back as C3 instructors; hint hint, Chief Nichols, who just retired in the last few weeks. So I have with me Michelle Cook. She is currently serving as the Sheriff in Clay County. She also did ... Michelle was almost 30 years at Jacksonville?Michelle Cook:26 years at Jacksonville, yeah.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, so 26 years at Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Police Department as the operations chief, so she had an awful lot of responsibility there. Did a short stint as the Police Chief at Atlantic Beach, which was kind of a retirement job, but too easy for you. You needed something with more, and so now she's the elected Sheriff at Clay County, which is in north Florida. And we have with us Terry Nichols. Terry was the Assistant Director at Alert from the founding to, what was it? 2018, 20-Terry Nichols:2016, 2016.Bill Godfrey:2016. Left Alert, became the Police Chief in Brownwood, Texas, and then you did, what, a little over three years there?Terry Nichols:Three years there, and then moved to Seguin as chief, and spent three years there, and now I'm retiredBill Godfrey:Like a week and a half ago, two weeks ago? It's been pretty recent.Terry Nichols:It's been a month, it's been a month.Bill Godfrey:So it's exciting to have both of you here. I really appreciate you taking the time. I know the sheriff especially, you have a very busy schedule. But I wanted to have a podcast where we talk about implementing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist and the process that goes with it. Because it sounds simple on the surface, and when you've gone through training, it's fairly straightforward, but trying to roll that out to a whole organization is a little bit of a logistics machine.And the two of you have each done this, not only in your organizations, but you've done it more than once. So sheriff, you did it at Jacksonville, then did it at Atlantic Beach, now at Clay County, and Terry, you did it at both Brownwood and Seguin. So what I wanted to just get from you guys is, what was it about this process that made you say, "This is the way I want to go," and what were your lessons learned? How did you approach it and go along the way? So sheriff, you want to start us off?Michelle Cook:Sure. First of all, thank you for having me today to talk about this. I'm very passionate about this. You've asked why ASIM, why choose this method of managing an active shooter event, and I will tell you, I'm entering into my 30th year of law enforcement, and I've worked some huge cases, some huge incidents, thousands of them, and for me, being a street cop for so long and then the leader of street cops, the ASIM process, the ASIM methodology, it just makes sense.In our industry, and Terry, correct me if you see differently, we teach young officers, young supervisors, to handle everything themselves. And on 99% of the calls that we handle, that can be done, but on a mass critical incident, like an active shooter event, relying on one person to handle everything is just unrealistic, and that's how things get missed, and unfortunately, that's how people die, is you got one person trying to handle everything.Terry Nichols:Yeah. For me, everything the sheriff said makes perfect sense, and she is spot on. Having been involved with Alert and standing it up from the get go, driving it post-Columbine, and how we were training cops, and then fast-forward several years and get introduced to the ASIM model, and realizing we had been missing the boat early on. When we started first training our officers, we were missing the management piece of this. We were doing good at going in and realizing that we have a different duty. There's no longer sit and wait for SWAT, that we had a different mission on these active shooter events.But there's a whole management piece of this, and like the sheriff alluded to, that we're real good at teaching cops to go handle a problem by themselves, and they do it 9 times out of 10, but these events are catastrophic. They are geographical in nature. It doesn't just happen in a vacuum in one little place, and it takes significant resource management being trained to do that, and that the ASIM, I was just pulled to it and said it makes all the sense in the world.Bill Godfrey:Well, it's very humbling to hear that, and I'm thrilled that you guys ... I was thrilled to have both of you as instructors and as founding members, if you will, of what we were doing a very, very long time ago. Terry, when you were at Alert, you had a hand in helping us get the pilot up and running, and Michelle attended one of the very first pilots. Wait, in fact, I think it was the very first pilot delivery we did for certification, when we did it at Seminole County, so you guys have certainly been on the road with us for a long time. Terry, what was your strategy? So Brownwood, you might want to ... Brownwood was a little more rural, Seguin's a little more suburban. What was your strategy when you wanted to implement it the first time around, and then how did that change for you the second time around?Terry Nichols:I want to back up to something that you said on the intro too, if I can remember what it was now, that it's not just an agency that we implemented these in, it was a geographical area. So it was multiple agencies.Bill Godfrey:Good point.Terry Nichols:Yeah, I may have been the Chief of Brownwood, but I had the Sheriff's Department, and I had two of the law enforcement agencies right there in the county as well, and it was very rural. If you look at Brownwood, Texas on a map, it is in the geographical center of Texas, and I tell people, "You go out to nowhere and turn left, and you're in Brownwood," and not a lot of resources out there.Our closest big city is Abilene, Texas, and that's an hour away. But I knew, A, the need when I got there. I saw the quick needs assessment that we had no active shooter training. We had nothing. We had zero partnership with our fire and EMS partners, we had a third-party EMS provider, we were not working with our Sheriff's Department who was in the same building as us, so a lot of basic leadership stuff.And it was fun to bring the ASIM stuff to us, and we did it through Counterstrike first. That's how we introduced it to the organization, but we brought in the Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies in the county. And that brought us all together, where they weren't playing in the sandbox prior to me getting there for multiple reasons, but this was something we could all gather around and actually embrace.And that really helped build relationships and, "Hey, we're not that bad. Hey, the people across the hall, hey, they're not that bad. They wear a brown uniform, we wear a blue uniform." So but it's also a rule. What we had is what we had, and help was a long way away. So we introduced it through Counterstrike, and then we did ASIM and the checklist, and we recurred training on it, and it was a success.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, your first implementation was at Jacksonville, which, contrasting to Brownwood, is about as big as ... it's a big job. What was your strategy there? I know you had to play the long game. It took a while, but talk a little bit about what you did at Jacksonville.Michelle Cook:Sure. So in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office actually, at the time, was the 25th largest agency in the country, so a large agency. And what we decided to do is offer the ASIM class to those who wanted it first, because we thought if we could get those folks who are interested in it to buy into it, then they could go out and help sell it to the rest of the agency. And that really, for us, worked out good, because we ended up with ASIM disciples, is what I call them, and those are folks who were all in, who, on the street, if somebody had a question, they could speak to what ASIM was, and the benefits of it, and stuff like that.So it took us several years. We had to get through about 1,400 people trained, so it took us several years, several training cycles, to get everybody through. Contrast that to ... Let me go back. In Jacksonville, we also had a really close relationship with the fire department, and so they were in on the training from the beginning with us, and that was very, very beneficial.In fact, I think it was in Jacksonville, we started using rescue task forces at special events, and that was a chance for us to practice a concept with our police and fire working together on all of our pre-planned special events, so when the the day did come that we had an active shooter, we would be prepared to ... and we wouldn't have to stop and explain to people what a rescue task force was, so that worked out really well.And we had the active shooter incident at The Landing, and we got fortunate that day because there was actually a fire department unit training a block away. But if you go back and you listen to the radio broadcast, and you listen, and you read the after-action reports, it was very clear that not only the active shooter tactical training that we had been practicing and training so hard for worked, but also, the Active Shooter Incident Management portion of that trained, and people fell right into place.And so it was really ... I had just left when that happened, but it was very gratifying to see all that hard work going into saving people's lives. So move forward to Atlantic Beach, again, much like Terry, a very small agency. We had 30 people total, including myself, and for me, I incorporated not only some of the fire department folks again in this, but public works. Our public works folks had a big presence out there in the city of Atlanta Beach, and so they were pulled into some of the safer jobs, and we trained with public works on these things, and safety...Bill Godfrey:Okay, well, we're not going to let you get away with that that easy. You're going to have to tell a little bit about what you did, and why, and how it worked out.Michelle Cook:So what we did is we got the public works guys because ... specifically the school, but other locations as well, we had ... Atlantic Beach is a beach town, so there's lots of roads leading in, and one of the concerns we had is that when something happened, that traffic would be backed up and blocked so bad that we would not be able to get mutual aid or fire rescue into the scene.So we train the public works guys on how to use their big trucks to hold traffic positions until relieved by a law enforcement officer, and again, they were instrumental and vital to our plan out there, and talking about building relationships and everybody being on the same page. So that worked out really good. Small agency, limited resources. We-Bill Godfrey:Did you get any pushback from the public works guys and gals, or were they pretty excited about it?Michelle Cook:Oh, they were having a blast. We also incorporated them, just on a side note, in our search for missing people. As soon as we had a missing person call go out in the city of Atlantic Beach, our publics works people would getting notified on their phones that we were looking for missing persons, and so they would also help us look for missing people. So it was really just, you go back to, if you have limited resources, if you're in a jurisdiction then you have limited resources, there are other groups that you can pull in safely to help augment or supplement your agency.Bill Godfrey:Sure, sure.Michelle Cook:Yeah, so that...Bill Godfrey:So how did your approach ... Other than the public works, what was the big glaring differences for you implementing it at Atlantic Beach, versus implementing ASIM at the Atlantic Beach versus Jacksonville?Michelle Cook:You know, Jacksonville, there was always the potential for over-convergence just from get go, just because of the sheer number of resources in Duval County. In Atlantic Beach, it was the exact opposite. How long do we have to wait until help gets here, and then how do you manage so much mutual aid? Because in Atlantic Beach, we would have Neptune Beach, Jacks Beach, Jacksonville, Mayport police, all potentially responding, all with different communication, radio channels.And so we had to make sure that when we developed our plan in Atlantic Beach, that all those surrounding agencies knew what our plan was, so that if and when something did happen, they would know what radio frequency to go to. Where would staging be? We preset all those ahead of time so that would be no question day of, and that's the value of a smaller jurisdiction, is you can do a lot of that ahead of time.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, you really regionalized your approach, which Terry mentioned even at Brownwood and bringing some of the others in. Terry, when you went over to Seguin, what did you do a little bit differently there at that one? And talk a little bit about how you stepped outside of the city to bring in your regional partners, similar to what Michelle was just talking about.Terry Nichols:Yeah, pretty much the same thing. The good news is we had a great relationship with the fire department there. It's a larger organization. I say larger. We had 60 sworn at the time, but we're a lot closer ... San Antonio's, a rock throw away, Austin's an hour away, San Marcos is close. So we have a lot of resources, and in the Braunfels real close to us if we need them.One thing that this community had lived through was Sutherland Springs. We had first responders ... Sutherland Springs was literally 15 miles, 20 miles, from Seguin, so we had first responders that actually went down there that day. So it was very close to Seguin, meaning and close to their heart. They did not have ASIM, though. They did not have any training. Most of them had been through Alert or some level of tactical training. The tactical piece of it, the sheriff mentioned, but nobody had the management piece.So I took what I did in Brownwood, and we invested in the Counterstrike and they ran everybody through Counterstrike first. Then we brought in an ASIM advance class, and that's when we really got the buy-in. There were already a group going on countywide, they met monthly. An integrated response group, it was run by the county Fire Marshal's Office, and they would meet monthly, and they would meet, and they would sit around and talk about the same thing over and over and over. And then I became chief there, and they all look at me like, "Oh my God, look what just walked in the door. We've got somebody that"-Bill Godfrey:Fresh meat.Terry Nichols:"That knows what they're doing, that'll come rescue us." So we started getting some synergy going there with that, and then the ASIM advanced that we hosted not long before I left, we were lucky enough to get really solidified, because we filled that class. It was great to see so many people.And I got a text on July 4th from the assistant fire chief saying that, "We have a huge parade July 4th in Seguin," and that's largest one in Texas. But, just what the sheriff mentioned, they had rescue task forces stood up, an IEP, the whole thing that ... I'd been walking them through, doing this slowly, baby steps, but they had done it for the parade, and he was so proud of himself, and I'm so proud of them.He said, "Look at your legacy, what you've left behind." I was like, I didn't do anything. I just came and got the ball rolling. You guys now go with it. But it's come time for both places to test, and that I think that, we'll talk about some challenges in a minute, but it's come time to start to test it. Don't wait for game day. We need to start testing these things.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and it's funny, both of you have talked about opportunities to exercise and practice, I shouldn't use the word exercise, but to practice some of these concepts in your special events and pre-planned events, and I know that that's a huge part of socialization and absolutely a best practice.And before I move on, I do want to comment for the audience, if you're wondering why these two both had ASIM advances, they were both leaders who contacted us and said, "If you ever have a last-minute cancellation, all I need is two weeks notice and I can make it work," and that's how both of them got ASIM classes. They picked up cancellation slots that came in from others on short notice.But sheriff, I know that you started off by doing the RTFs, and the idea of contact teams in your IEPs for special events, and for the football games, and things like that in Jacksonville, but not too long after that, you took that a step further, certainly at clay county, I know you've began incorporating some of these practices into other calls not active shooter. Can you talk a little bit about that?Michelle Cook:Sure. So it actually ... the guys in Atlantic Beach started it, and it's carried forward to Clay County, and I really think this is going to end up being a best practice. And so what we've done is, on priority-one calls, where we have an active scene that's dynamic and fluid, whoever is tactical declares tactical, and they have command of the hot zone.So whether it's a burglary in progress to a store, or a fire at a house, or a gas leak, the person that's going to drive the resources to specific tasks based on an overall strategy declares tactical, and then our incident commander goes down the road and declares command, and then supports tactical.And this is really ... like I said, this happened organically in both agencies, but I think it's going to end up being a best practice for us, is this allows the men and women in uniform to use the terminology, use the concepts, and it won't be foreign to them, God forbid, if something ever happened. So they're using it on priority-one calls now.Bill Godfrey:I think that's fabulous, and the history of the fire service, and I know we all like to make fun, the fire department will set up incident command on a barking dog call. And yeah, true, but that's actually how we got everybody to understand it. When the ICS structure first started coming out in the late 70s and then rolled into the 80s, and people started stepping up and taking notice, the way we got it indoctrinated culturally was we used it on everything.Overkill? Yeah. Was it necessary? Probably not, but did it expedite the cultural integration and locking that in? And it really did. And I know we've had some conversations about the idea of morphing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist process into something that's a little more generic, like a generic response posture to violent events or potentially-violent events, and I wonder if you could comment on that?So on the fire service, we have alarm levels. So what we send to a residential structure fire is different than what we send to a commercial structure fire, and when we escalate that and call for more resources, and so that's that standard package. And it seems to me like there might be a real good argument and a logical application for something like that, a standard response protocol for hostile events or potentially-violent events on law enforcement. What are the two of you think about that?Terry Nichols:You know, I can agree. I think that's a great best practice, sheriff, and I commend you for it. I think Seguin, we could have certainly done that in Seguin, and hopefully a little more naturally; like you said, organically. What I think we saw that the cops have been missing, the officers have been missing, is the actual practical application of ICS. Everybody's done the 100, the 200, 300, all of the classes, and we all...Bill Godfrey:Nobody shared answers.Terry Nichols:Yeah, they never share answers, but they never seen the practical application of it, and that's what ASIM brings you, or that's what the Counterstrike tool brings them, is a practical application? "Okay, I see how this is supposed to work now," but you've got to go out and now practice it, and if you can incorporate it into your priority-one-type calls or something like that, I think that's brilliant to be able to do something like that, because it just further ingrains that it should be second nature. when the big one, when that day happens, it's already ingrained in the organizational culture.Bill Godfrey:Good point. Sheriff, what are your thoughts?Michelle Cook:You know, I would agree. The challenge we have in law enforcement is ... because every call that we go on is so different, and to broad brush, saying, "Okay, all of these types of calls, you have to do this," it can be a double-edged sword. So I liked the fact that, at least in my agencies, it happened organically, and when the troops buy in, then you don't have to ram it down their throat; it's better all the way around.But I would love to see some sort of standardization, maybe at each state level, and using the lingo of each state to implement a standard hostile encounter response, or priority-one response, or whatever you want to call it. The challenge for us is, a priority-one call can be somebody shot, to a burglary in progress, to a car crash, to ... So I like it. I'm just not quite sure on how to execute it yet.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, I think it's one of those ideas that we ... Let's face it. Both of our industries are not necessarily known for changing quickly. In the fire service, and you guys have heard me say this before, we have a saying, "200 years of tradition unimpeded by progress," and we mean that. But I think this is one of those places where it's an idea, but we need to take time. I think we need to see what begins to develop organically, what works. Where's the stickiness in an organization? What types of incidents or responses does it make sense, and where doesn't it make sense?think we just have to take our time with it, but it's an interesting idea that I want to keep talking about as we move forward. So let me ask both of you this. What, if anything, when you were implementing the ASIM process at any of either of your agencies, what caught you by surprise, or were some lessons learned, or advice that you would give to other law enforcement leaders like yourself, who are wanting to go down this path? Sheriff, you want to start?Michelle Cook:Sure. My advice would be find ASIM disciples first. Let them buy in and help sell it, versus forcing everybody to go to classes right off the bat. Understand that ASIM is a perishable skill, so if you're not using it on the street for your priority-one calls, you have to find other ways to continue the dialogue.And that can include using some of the concepts on pre-planned events. For us, it includes ... we have written out manuscripts, responses, for some of our larger churches and mall, and our personnel read them. And we got this idea from, actually, the Blue Angels, and before every flight, they sit down and they verbally talk about what they're going to do during flight. And so we sit down and we verbally articulate, "If my role is tactical, this is what I'm doing. If I'm a contact team, this is what I'm doing," and that seems to keep the skills fresh.We've also put together some PowerPoints where we have little pieces moving, kind of like the Counterstrike board moving, and then we have people talking about what's happening; again, pushing the concepts out. So my advice would be find ASIM disciples, then push it out to everybody, and then find creative ways to keep the conversation going regularly. And before we get off this podcast, Bill, I want to talk about something exciting that's happening in Clay County right now as we speak, so don't let me forget that.Bill Godfrey:Okay, I'm going to make myself a note. Terry, how about you? What were the surprises or lessons learned or advice that you would offer something to another law enforcement leader?Terry Nichols:In Brownwood, I walked into, I mentioned earlier, a, I won't say adversarial community, but everybody wasn't getting along, and I used it as a tool to bring everybody together. So I thought it was very useful that way. Now see, the fire department, they got along, but they didn't work together. They knew each other, but they didn't get ... that was it. They was the fireman, we're the police officers. But I used it as a unique tool to bring everybody together, and I thought that was unique.I agree with the disciples, or ambassadors, as I often refer to them, as somebody that will go out there and carry that brand. They're passionate about it. They're just passionate as I am, as you are, as the sheriff is, and so many other folks around. Our new ... Our. The city's new assistant fire chief is one of those ambassadors. He was a hire about eight months before I left, and he came from a neighboring agency, and he is an absolute ambassador.He told me at my retirement reception, he's like, "You're part of the reason I came over here, and now you're leaving." He's relating, "I'm passionate about this Active Shooter Incident Management stuff, and you were here, and I was like, 'All right, what a great opportunity.'" I said, "Sorry, dude, it's that time. 33 years is enough time."And I have to agree with you, we did not have the practice at either organization down, like the sheriff explained. We did not have that ongoing, and I learned that the hard way in Brownwood. When we get to that story, I'll tell you that later on, that it is a perishable skill, and you've got to figure out some ways, some unique ways, to continue to get the information out and rehearse, refresh, that going on. And with the events in Texas in the past couple months, I don't think that's going to be hard to do to get that refresher stuff going.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, do you want to go ahead and talk about what you learned in Brownwood about the retention in perishable skills?Terry Nichols:Yeah, so we ran Counterstrike. We did not have the ASIM yet, but we ran Counterstrike. Everybody through the Sheriff's Department, third-party ambulance provider, the hospital, staff attended, everybody. And then a month later, we held an exercise at the school. No SIMS, nothing like that, it was all moulage. We had actually role-players, Moulage, and the hospital was involved.So we did transports, they tested their MCI surge capability. It worked great, and I think our out-the-door time for the first patient was like 20 minutes. It was remarkable. For having only done it, and we had just trained the month before, so it was great, the sad part, we had lost an officer the week before that to an off-duty traffic collision, and I almost canceled the event simply because of that. We had a lot of trauma we were going through as an organization. We didn't, I'm glad we didn't, because it really brought us all back together focused on our mission.The next year, my intentions are always great, but you're not judged by your intention. My intention was to do followup training the following year, that spring, and do another exercise at the school, change it up slightly, and get the hospital, everybody, involved. We never got around to the refresher training. This happened, the world happened, everything happened, but we still did the exercise. My fire chief had pretty much checked out mentally. He just wasn't that engaged. Our out-of-the-building time for our first casualty was like 50 minutes. It was 50 minutes.Bill Godfrey:50? Five zero?Terry Nichols:Yeah, five zero, which, to me, was absolute failure, catastrophic failure. It's like, what happened? And it was a lack of recurring training, is what boils down to. People had forgotten their roles, they'd forgotten ... they had the checklist, they had in front of them, but they'd forgotten how to do the basic fundamental things, the basic fundamental piece of this.So the good lesson learned, keeping that buy-in from those ambassadors, especially the agency heads, I would think that I could sit across from my fire chief, and I could in Seguin, and have a very candid conversation. It was not quite that same way in Brownwood, as it turned out to be. That was part of the issue I faced.The other issue is my own, I had to own it, that I did not continue to push the training. Life happened, other things happened, and I did not make it a top priority as it should have been, and we saw the outcome of that during that exercise, and I was just as mad as a hornet. I was just absolutely furious at myself, not at the performance of my troops, because they did the best they could. It was at me for not doing that refresher training.Bill Godfrey:Powerful story. Sheriff, anything that you want to add on that before I come back to what's going on there at Clay County?Michelle Cook:I'm with Terry. This is a perishable skill all day long, and you've got to find creative ways to continue the conversations. To think that you're going to bring in a class one time, and somehow people are going to retain it, that's just not going to work. You got to continue the conversations, whether it's the Counterstrike board. For us, it's reading scripts and PowerPoints, and handling priority-one calls using ASIM concepts. Also, the preplanned events, using as many concepts as we can during the preplanned event, and that's how you keep the conversations fresh.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, I completely agree. So tell us a little bit about what's going on there at Clay that you're excited about.Michelle Cook:So really thrilled about this. We were actually having these conversations before Uvalde, and Uvalde really just cemented our commitment to them. So in Clay County, like all school districts across America, our school board came up with a reunification plan, which sounded great on paper. It looks fantastic in this big ring binder that nobody's ever going to look at. So I brought in the county emergency manager, the safety director for the school board, and the school board police chief, and said, "Guys, we have our plan, you have your plan, the schools have their plan. None of us know each other's plan."So right now, what we're doing is we're hosting, I think we're up to 51 meetings. We're bringing school administrators in; the superintendent; fire rescue; the police agency if it's in a municipality, and we bring that jurisdiction in; the school resource officers; the school board police; the safety director for the school board; my patrol division; my special events division, and my traffic division. And we'll have anywhere from 20 to 30 people in the room, and we put the school up on the board and we say, "Okay, this is Clay High School. All right, so school administrators, what is your lockdown ... what is your policy?"So they tell us what their policy is, and then we talk about what to expect from us. "You're going to have solo officer response. You may see something called a contact team. What do you ... We've made an agreement on where we're going to keep extra weapons and other items locked in the school, so where is that location? How do we turn off your alarms in your school?" And then we challenge our traffic guys, "What intersections do you have to own to lock this school down?"And then to the school people, "How are we going to ... Let's talk about reunification. What does that look like?" And then we tell them, "Hey, this is what our contact teams are going to be doing. This is what our rescue task forces are going to be doing. There's a position called tactical, and if you can find that person safely and provide information on who the suspect is, where they're at, go find that person. This is what's going to be happening at the command post."So we tell them all of that, and really, what we've done is we've taken the individual school plans, we've taken the school board police response plan, we've taken the fire response plan, we've taken our plan. We've really molded it into a document, and since I've been driving the conversations from the beginning, they're very ASIM-centric. And the documents are just a few pages, and I could literally ...We've identified, for example, all the intersections in the area that we need to control. "I'm not telling you on game day which direction to push traffic, but these are the intersections that we have to control." So we have a single sheet of paper, it lists each intersection, and then how many deputies it takes to control that intersection. So if Terry's coming in for mutual aid, and I can pull off this sheet of paper and hand it to Terry and say, "You've got traffic."So we've done this with our schools. We're about 12 or so schools in now that we've been holding these meetings, and I tell you, the sense of cooperation, coordination, the understanding of ASIM, because we tell them, "You guys locking down and us neutralizing the bad guy is really just the beginning. There's going to be so much more that has to happen," and opening their eyes of what to expect from us, what we can expect from them, and we're calling it the Clay County CHIRP plan, CHIRP, Clay Hazard Immediate Response Plan, and it just gets all the special interests together in a room to talk about each individual school individually, instead of trying to cover all the schools with one giant plan.Bill Godfrey:That is so fantastic, and more than I've heard going on in other organizations. Once again, you're always on the cutting edge of making new stuff happen. So I-Terry Nichols:It is, it's brilliant. I'm sorry, Bill.Bill Godfrey:No, go ahead, Terry.Terry Nichols:It's great. It's absolutely brilliant, it really is, especially countywide. One thing I left out of the Brownwood, the exercises we did, the school district did their own little reunification exercise once we finished. So we did our piece of it, but they had staff that was working through the summer, and they worked on their reunification process. They actually brought up school buses, and took them to another facility, and worked and walked through the standard reunification method that they utilize.So again, we did not get involved in that because we were taxed already, as far as the number of bodies we were pulling from the street through the tactical piece of all this, but they were doing it themselves. So it was nice to see them doing that. I know the superintendent out there, I know he's continuing that kind of stuff. It's very important to them. Seguin will be very similar, I'd have no doubt in my mind.Bill Godfrey:That's fantastic. So here's my last question for the two of you. Just within the last two weeks, NTOA, the National Tactical Officers Association, has announced that they're endorsing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist as a national standard. And as I said on one of the previous podcasts, for our fire-EMS audience, NTOA is to law enforcement what the NFPA, the National Fire Protection Agency, is to the fire service. How do the two of you see that changing the conversation as we try to get people aware, trained, and implementing ASIM?Terry Nichols:It would certainly help. Having their endorsement and their stamp of approval is huge. I've been an NTOA member for years, got on their training, I've been to their active assailant training, active shooter training many years ago, back in the early days of Alert. It adds a lot of validity to it, not that it didn't already have it, because it does, but you may be reaching a whole different audience that, especially for your larger agencies that have full-time SWAT teams, and they say, "If we don't do an active shooter training, we've got this stuff done, it's gone ... y'all have to solve long before we get there."But now, they get introduced ugh, or through their structure or their training in the tactical world, they get introduced to the ASIM model and the process that way now. Again, most of the country part-time teams, collateral duty, job, that kind of stuff, but your Los Angeleses, and your New York, and your Houstons, and your Austins and Bostons, and all those big places that may not get ASIM another way, may see it this way now. So I think it's a big deal, Bill.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, how about you? How does it change things, or does it change things, for you at home there in Clay and in your surrounding areas?Michelle Cook:I'm not sure if it changes things. It doesn't surprise me, though, that NTOA would be one of the first to step up and acknowledge this. The NTOA has trained thousands and thousands and thousands of SWAT operators and SWAT leaders, and on a SWAT call-out, there's a process. And you think about, you call the SWAT team when it's really, really bad, and the SWAT team follows a chain of command, there's one talk, there's one commander.So it doesn't surprise me that NTOA would see the value of a checklist like this, and understand that the checklist is really for those dynamic, ongoing ... those calls that are happening right then when we don't have time to wait for the SWAT team. Now, with that being said, my only concern, and this is something that, as a leader, you have to be cognizant of, is the checklist is not the answer. The answer is training with the checklist.Bill Godfrey:Yes, yes.Michelle Cook:So passing the checklist and saying, "Okay, now we have ASIM," that would be my only concern, because I'm thinking firemen are probably like this too, but cops, "Just make it easy for us. Give us a checklist."Bill Godfrey:Yeah, we're all much more alike than we would like to admit.Michelle Cook:Yeah. That would be my only caution, is that the piece of paper is not the answer. It's training to the piece of paper that will help you get to the answer.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and I think certainly in my conversations with the NTOA leadership, I think they're keenly aware of that, and we're having some very positive conversations about things that we are hoping to do with their organization to begin to push this out. I think we're probably going to start with some webinars, some announcement material, and things like that, but obviously, we've got to get into the training. You got to get into the hands-on training.And I've said this before, and I will say it again, you can sit in a classroom and you can get lectured at, you can watch a video, but until you get up and put yourself in the moment and actually practice this under pressure, you just don't get it. You've got to give responders the opportunity to practice, hot wash it, and then let them practice again, and that's when they they build the competency.I feel like it's a little bit of a trite analogy, but I've said it before, and I don't think there's anything quite better than that, you're not going to get to the Super Bowl with one practice. You've got to practice over and over again, and in a lot of ways, the quarterback on the field is a lot like tactical triage and transport, and then the coaches on the sideline are like the incident command post.Everybody's working together, but how the heck are you going to pull that off on game day if nobody ever bothered to practice? It seems obvious, and when you break it down in those terms, everybody goes, "Oh yeah, I guess that makes sense," but making it a priority for agencies, it's tough. We got, what, 20 pounds of training requirements to fit into a one-pound day? Something's-Terry Nichols:In Texas, you're about to see that get a lot heavier, because again, after Uvalde, I think you're going to see this come to the forefront at the state level. So every state has mandated training for peace officers that we all have to go through every year. You will see we will be heavy on active shooter response, active assailant response, and it'll hopefully give those agencies that already bought in, that have ASIM training, that have the knowledge of it, to give them a chance to actually go out and practice it now, to check that box with the state, as it were.And one of my leadership mentors, Dave Anderson, he says about working out, "How can you expect to go in the gym and squat 500 pounds if you've never squatted 100 pounds? So yeah, you got to practice, practice, practice, repetition, repetition, repetition. So what you said is spot on, but we've got to ... To have a piece of paper, laminated or not, just to pull out of your zipper shirt or out of your visor, is not the answer. You've got to use it.Bill Godfrey:Or on your phone. We've got it as the phone app too. Yeah, I completely agree, and the one thing I would say, in a perfect world, we would get everybody trained so competently and so passionately, and that, God forbid, the day comes that they're called upon, they would nail it and perfect it, and that would be wonderful. But a little goes a long way. A little bit of organization, a little bit of incident management, having a handful of leadership who understands the process and understand what needs to get done, to be able to organize the rest of the troops or the mutual aid people coming in, a little can go a long way. And yes, one day I would like to believe that we'll get every law enforcement, firefighter, EMT, and paramedic in the United States fully trained and competent in this material. But in the meantime, let's do a little something, because as we've seen more than once, a failure on the incident management side can just produce an unacceptable result.Terry Nichols:It's catastrophic, it's catastrophic, and witnessed recently, unfortunately, and it just ... and you're right, small pieces, and the sheriff's got it right. She's hitting it on the head, using it the priority-one calls, and get it ingrained, indoctrinated. And before we went live and started recording, I was joking with you, Bill, about, we have so much to learn from the fire service; we, being law enforcement.Yeah, we may joke all day long about this incident command stuff. There's a cat up in a tree, and y'all set up incident command, there's no one-shot. But there's something to be said for this, and I tried it. I think both Seguin and Brownwood are better ... they are today than when I got there when it comes to this type of stuff. Not just the tactical piece of it, but the incident management piece of it. I hope they are. And it was a great challenge, and I'm an ambassador of it, and hopefully we got much more to learn, even if it's one at a time, one person at a time.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and I think, Terry, between you and, certainly, Michelle, who is a very, very strong leader in the law enforcement community, and very sophisticated and forward-looking, I'm optimistic. I think we're going to get there. I think that this can happen, and we can get it done. And I'll share this one story with you, Terry, in fairness, coming back on the other side, because making fun of the cat in the tree, I always make fun of you law enforcement guys for the 540 degrees of coverage. I'm like, "Yeah, how does that math work? It's 360, and you start over again."And I was teaching a class one day with ... and I make that joke on a fairly regular basis, which I should have known. And one of our other instructors, Adam, he was waiting for it, and as soon as I said it, he goes, "Okay, let me explain it to you, Bill. You get in the recliner, you spin around 360 degrees, and then you pull the lever to kick your feet back and you look up over your head. That's 540 degrees of coverage," and I said, "Okay, I got it. I deserve that."Terry Nichols:I owe him a beverage. I owe him a beverage.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, you have any other closing words or thoughts that you want to offer before we wrap up for today?Michelle Cook:Just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity, and if any law enforcement leader out there, anybody in law enforcement, is looking for any ideas, or suggestions, or support, or how to lead your organization or your agency through the the beginnings of ASIM, obviously, C3 Pathways is the expert in the training, but I can definitely help people navigate the politics of it if needed. So always available to assist.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, that's very, very gracious of you. I have a feeling we're going to have people reaching out wanting your contact information. Terry, any final thoughts?Terry Nichols:I echo exactly what the sheriff said, Bill. Thank you so much for the opportunity to come to share my story, anyway, what I've experienced, but same way. I've done it in a rural community with very limited resources, and now in a larger, not near as large as the Sheriff for Jacksonville, but in a larger agency with ... And there are politics to navigate, there are egos to navigate.Bill Godfrey:Always.Terry Nichols:They're in ... I don't have all the answers, but I'll certainly give you my experience. So yeah, C3 Pathways is the point. Anybody listening or watching, reach out to C3, and if you want to talk to me directly, obviously, Bill will gladly share my contact information, and I will answer any question with anybody at any time about any issue as it relates to this, and my successes and my obvious failures as well.Bill Godfrey:Well, Terry, Michelle, thank you both so much for taking the time out of your day. I think what you've shared can be extremely valuable to those that need to walk in the same footsteps that you guys have already forged ahead, and I just can't thank you enough for continuing to support and be ambassadors, and for the work that both of you have accomplished. So thank you for being with us today on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a wrap for our show today. Thank you for tuning in, and until we talk to you next time, stay safe.

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Alicia has an update on the search efforts for missing diver Timothy Obi, last seen off the coast of Mayport mid-afternoon Saturday.

The missile was fired from the deck of the submarine USS Barbero towards the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida, and completed its 700-mile flight in just 22 ...

This week we discuss William Wells,the self Proclaimed Monster of Mayport. He is truly an evil man, he continues to kill, even after nearly 20 years behind bars. It all started with a nasty addiction to cocaine and marijuana and the 'accidental' murder of his wife. We discuss the 10 day long cocaine fueled murder spree that killed 5 people including his wife and father in law, his arrest and the continuation to this day of his murderous ways. 

Hannah reports from Mayport, where the USS Philippine Sea returns after a challenging 10-month deployment that included a covid-19 outbreak.

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Mayport Wealth Management’s Adam Grossman offers an anatomy of the type of client reactions he’s seeing in the current market meltdown, along with analysis of value in the muni bond market and an incremental approach to stock-buying. In this podcast interview (17:53), the Boston-based advisor also offers insight into investment rules of thumb, his approach to helping clients clarify goals and his thoughts on correcting America’s dearth of retirement savings.

Brent and Austen are LIVE from USS Paul Ignatius they talk about the recent developments in the Garrett situation and the Jags!

On this show, we talked about why determining your current and future priorities is an integral step towards financial success as well as the many variables to consider with Adam Grossman, CFA and Founder of Mayport, a flat fee financial planning and investment firm.  Listen to learn a strategy for investing in the stock market during both good and bad times! For the Difference Making Tip, scan ahead to 17:01! You can learn more about Adam at Mayport.com, Twitter, HumbleDollar and LinkedIn. Please subscribe to the show however you’re listening, leave a review and share it with someone who appreciates good ideas. You can learn more about the show at GeorgeGrombacher.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook or contact George at Contact@GeorgeGrombacher.com.

10-30-2018 WOKV's Stephanie Brown joins JMN to discuss the preview of the base's newest ship, the future USS Thomas Hudner.

Shirlene Reeves, your host, interacts and discusses with Terry Wildemann the importance of;Overcoming the fear and anxiety around sales while participating in Earth School.Learn about our newly activated monthly surprise where you can chime in with your questions on Facebook at https://fb.me/AscendedMastersAtWorkThe importance of reading a person intuitively for connectionThe Rotten Tomato story told by Terry WildemannDiscover what it's like to be intuitive and if you are, which modality you are most comfortable utilizing for guidance.#Business, #Intuition, #Sales, #Spirit, #SellingThroughYourHeart, #PodcastTranscriptWelcome to Ascended Masters At Work radio with your host Shirlene Reeves, the world's business success coach and author of Selling Through Your Heart - Empowering You To Build Relationships For Financial Freedom, where we focus on taking the right step-by- step actions towards generating a consistent business income. Listen in as Shirlene empowers small business owners. On Ascended Masters At Work radio you'll discover the secrets to building an effective, income generating business, find the answers for selling your programs and products without rejection and get the solutions for building a strong financial foundation. Get coaching with Shirlene Reeves, and her guests, on how to develop integrated programs so compelling that your clients can't resist saying yes. Now let's welcome your host, business success coach Shirlene Reeves. Hello my friends. It's wonderful to be here with you today. We have a great program. We're going to start off with a little fireside chat because I really am looking forward to sharing some very important information with you. I have some great news. I was doing my meditation the other day and spirit said to me, "I think you should start teaching more about how people can work with each other and how they can do business together." And the other thing that they suggested is that I have a person who does channeling once a month that talks to us about what's going on in the economy or what's going on in the world and why we're experiencing these things. We've got volcanoes popping off. We have freezing rain on the Big Island. Who would think? I've never heard of such a thing and neither have the scientists. We have the strangest things going on so I invited Maha Kury come on the show. She's going to be talking to us, once a month, to let us know answers to the questions that you provide us. So I'm hoping that on our Facebook page, Ascended Masters At Work, that you'll post a question that you would like to learn about. But I digress, back to sharing some information with you about business and overcoming our fears. "No one limits your growth but you.", says Tom Hopkins. "If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you'll work harder for a while, but that means you work longer for awhile. But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road." One of the biggest challenges we have is overcoming sales fears. The fear and anxiety that surfaces around sales can absolutely paralyze and doom your business. Many entrepreneurs are afraid of sales but instinctually believe that bringing their mission and their message to the world is why they are participating here in Earth School. They push themselves so hard that they become ill, overworked and physically hit bottom, no longer able to run. You know what I mean, run? So many of them are flying hither and yon and speaking everywhere they can get a speaking opportunity and they're getting sick. They're falling down. It's too difficult. Because someone has told them that they need to make a seven figure income. I'm going to give you a secret. You don't have to make a seven figure income. You can make a six figure income very happily, and live very comfortably, while still saving for the future. And there's other ways that you can save for the future to. You don't have to run yourself into the ground making a seven figure income. So don't let people tell you that. Or if you know of people that are making a seven figure income, sit down and have a chat with them and find out how their health is doing today, how overworked are, and how little time they have for their family. There are many people in business who have enough modalities, credentials, Knowledge and experience to paper the walls. But they're searching for the answer to who they are and they have no idea how to blend everything that they know and do into just one business. Do you have that problem? So many entrepreneurs are experiencing that problem. The members of this group usually have searched for years and spent thousands of dollars looking for the answer to one most important question. "With everything I know, how do I say what I do?" Wow that is a challenge. This one question is the platform for the next step in your business success. Without this answer you will feel paralyzed with fear. After all how can you sell what you do without the answer for who you are as a business. It's interesting because two clients recently came to me with one baseline question. "I know so much that I don't know where to begin. Every time someone asks me what I do a wave of fear washes over me and I don't know what to say." One client already spent over $10,000 on her quest with absolutely no results. The other had been working with two coaches, for six months, but she still hadn't found the answer. Both clients were about to give up when we started working together. It took no longer than two hours of one on one work to discover and create each one's business identity. And today they feel a sense of peace and excitement, while stepping forward confidently into positioning their business and interacting with potential clients. These and many other clients say that now, when potential clients ask them what they do, it's easy to explain their business identity succinctly and confidently while putting their new relationship development into practice. What's important about the point I'm making here is that without intuition I wouldn't have been able to support these clients to reach the answer that they were looking for. It's all about drawing it out of them when it comes to this kind of coaching and intuition is what sincerely makes a difference. This brings me to our guest for today. A lot of what we do in business is intuition so I thought I'd invite her on to talk us. But I'll tell you one thing, she really loves talking about business and intuitive leadership. And we're going to expanded it a bit today and talk about how to have a positive conversation. You might need to change your mind set first. I talk a lot about that in my Selling Through Your Heart book. The whole first section is all about how to change your mindset, so I know she's really going to chime in on this. She has a consulting business on intuitive leadership, intuitive business and she's an accelerator coach, speaker, and best selling author. Her name is Terry Wildemann and she works with socially conscious CEOs, small business owners, and leaders to take their business to the next level with speed ease and flow. Don't you love that? Speed, ease and flow. I really like the way that sounds. She's been in business for about forty years and had all kinds of experience with leadership and that includes owning a manufacturing company, an image consulting company, and a leadership and holistic education center. She has taught at universities, community college and her clients absolutely love her. They are entrepreneurs, bankers, bankers government agencies and even the chamber of commerce and, believe it or not the US military, which I'm sure needs to know how to have positive conversations. Let's welcome Terry Wildemann to the show. Welcome Terry, Thank you Shirlene. It's nice to be here. Well it's fun to have you and your angels are always surrounding you so I really really love having you on the show. It's fabulous. Thank you. Yes, they are always with me. My wonderful angels are constantly with me. Yes, and that's what makes life worth living. Let me tell you. Alright, so I want to talk to you about, why do we have to be intuitive about leadership? I love that question. Well, leaders are who are intuitive. They are able to bring out the best in themselves and in their people. Folks who look at themselves as being a leader often manage and managers tend to work from a very practical and logical perspective. It's more about the rules of the road, what to do, what not to do. It's more of a left brain type focus. Rise to leadership is the emotional side of the house. And when you add intuition to leadership, and all of us have intuition, even the folks who say to me, "Oh, I'm not intuitive." I'll always find some place where they've been intuitive. We're born with our tuition. And to be able to add the insights that come through our intuition, and it's different for everyone. Add that to how we lead. It adds an extra layer of credibility to our leadership. And it gives us insights to really be the best that we can be in terms of communication, in terms of listening, and in terms of being heard. Looking at an intuitive perspective, as a leader, are you saying that they have to be able to read people's minds to know what to say? (Laughter) I knew you'd like that. You know, one of the things about being a really good leader is understanding how people communicate. For example, it's about reading their body language. Listening to their tune of voice. Those are the two biggies. Once you do that you listen to their words and those three things give you lots of insight on how to speak that person's language. It's not about being psychic, so to speak. Not everybody has to be psychic. But our intuitive gifts come in different ways. Some people see images. We call that clairvoyant. Others hear words to guide them. That's clairaudience. Others feel, which is clairsentient. They feel a specific way and others are claircognizant. They just Know. Knowing how you get your information and then being able to read the person who's in front of you from a body language, tone of voice, and words perspective. You integrate the two of them together and it's a powerful combo to understand where the other person is coming from. That's really interesting if you are in front of the person, is how you read their body language. Like, we're doing just audio right now. That's right. When you're talking to somebody I know that we listen to the speed of their tone and what their inflections are. But that one piece, that body language piece, is missing when you're doing an audio. Well, you can actually hear a person's body language in the audio. And you may not be able to see it, but you can feel it, and it actually affects the way we speak and our words. So yes, the body language can actually come through. And you tune in more to the tone of words, the inflection and the energy. Because if you don't see something, the other senses pick it up. That's a really good point because I know people who are deaf, or who are blind, they have a tremendous amount of sense in their other faculty. So you're saying we utilize those as if we were blind. Is that right? Absolutely! And when I used to... this business actually started thirty one years ago when I was an image consultant. I still say, this is common to the ladies specifically. Always wear lipstick when you're going to be on video or on stage because people who are blind have very strong hearing and people who are deaf have very strong eyesight. And those of us who are gifted with both, use both. Therefore we you have the lipstick on your lips are actually brighter and clearer and people can hear you better. Hmm, that's a really good point because I think we kind of read lips anyway whether we're deaf or we're not. Yah exactly, exactly. We do. Wearing lipstick brings the lips in focus. It just makes it easier for the eyes to tune in to what the person is saying. I'm always telling my celebrity guest experts that I trained to make sure they have more, more, more lipstick. Oh good, so we're on the same wave length on that one. Exactly! Exactly. (Laughter) That's brilliant. It's never enough. Oh, that is brilliant. So why do you think people are afraid to listen to the intuitive hints or the little voice in the back of their mind that tells them what to do, or they say, "No, I'm not doing that." Because I'll tell you little secret. This is how I ended up in San Felipe, in Baja, is because that's what I was told to do. Every time I do what I'm told to do I say, "I don't know why I want to live down there. My whole community is in San Diego and northern California." And here I am in San Felipe. But everything has turned out beautifully, simply because I listened and took that step. A very big one, I might add. Yes. It is a very big one and there are times that those of us including, you know, including myself and I'm sure you've been here, where the voices are so loud that we're just too scared to take that step. And it is about trust. It really is about trust. You know when I wrote my last book, The Enchanted boardroom, there's a segment in there about angels and business. And I knew it had to go into the book. I knew intuitively it had to go into the book. I was feeling it and knowing it. But the fear was so intense for me. I was on my knees in my daughter's home in San Diego actually, crying my eyes out because I was so scared. I'm a business woman. I'm a practical person. I'm gonna have tomatoes thrown at me. (Laughter) And I have a fun story about the tomatoes. And this is what I was thinking. I'm going to be writing this and people are going to think I'm a lunatic. But I've been working with the angels, oh my gosh, for decades. My angels have really been very very clear for me. It was just the fear of being judged. It was the fear of not being taken seriously. It's the fear of hearing people's voices in my ear say, "Oh this is just such a bunch of bunk. None of this is true and I've heard this and again it's about, you know we as women, we work hard for our credibility. And it's a matter of fighting for our credibility. Darn it. I am a practical woman. I am grounded with my two feet on the ground, just like you are Shirlene, just like you. And when I don't listen to my intuition it comes back on me. I want to talk about that when we come back. Would you mind? And I want to hear about the tomatoes too. (Laughter) Okay. we'll be right back with you. Give us just a minute and then we're going to find out about Terry and her tomatoes. Hi, this is your coach Shirlene Reeves, and I'm kind of wondering, are you tired of being your wheels and networking groups? I mean I know you love them. But how much money are you making for the money that you're spending? You want to boost your sales and get out of your own backyard? Perhaps you'd like to generate a larger income and create a massive impact in the world. If you're concerned about market competition, meeting sales quotas, or overcoming the anxiety of building a business that generates an income. Then the knowledge and information in my new book, Selling Through your heart, will help you take your business to the next level so you can all that you desire. In the pages in Selling Through Your Heart, I give you my tips and strategies and sales ideas utilized for twenty eight years. Every one of them has been tried and tested. I give you my million dollar secret for how I built my nationwide company, with twenty three thousand people working under me. Wouldn't you love to know those secrets? Well you can get them all in my new book book, Selling Through Your Heart. This book is full of real life insights, inspirational stories, and easily applied advice. Go to SellingThroughYourHeart.com and order your book today. (Laughter) Okay, here we are. Back again. I promised you you're gonna to hear the tomato story, so Terry let's hear it. Oh, the tomato story. Well the book was published, The Enchanted Boardroom, Evolve Into An Unstoppable Intuitive Leader. I had my book signing here in my, where I live in Newport, Rhode Island. It was that the Middletown Barnes And Noble. And set her all up, and everything was wonderful, and I did not look through the camera lens at the videographer who attended. And when I got all the material back I burst out laughing, because I was standing giving my presentation with my flip chart to my right and up over my left was a big sign that said rotten tomatoes. (Laughter) Oh my gosh. Was that in all the video? It was in the whole video. (Laughter) That's actually a good thing. You know, because the book.You know, the Rotten Tomato Awards is actually very very good thing. But I couldn't believe it when I saw that on the video and I went aha aha. There we go. The angels got back at me. (Laughter) Well, you know what I find Terry is, I'll get this little nagging thing in the back of my mind and if I ignore it or I just say, "I'm not doing that." Then, it gets louder. And then it'll go away for awhile and then it comes back very loud. Then I have to say, "Okay, okay, okay I get it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it." And then it just kind of goes away. It's like they wait to see if I get it done.(Laughter) I have a story around that, very quickly. This was thirty one years ago this happened. We were living in Alexandria, Virginia, We were about to move to Mayport, Florida. We're a military family and my daughter was ten months old. My husband was finishing up school down in Florida. And we were leaving a friend at the Chinese restaurant and I put my daughter in the car. And this was thirty one years ago where the car seat, I had to put it in the front seat because it was a sports car. I had no other place to put it. I put my daughter's car seat in the front seat and she was in nice and tight and everything was fine. And then I didn't put my seatbelt on. And I'm pulling the car out and I hear the words, "Put your seatbelt on." Yah, yah, yah, yah. And I'm pulling out and this is in Alexandria, Virginia and if you think it's busy now. It was really really busy thirty one years ago. It's crazy now. You can only imagine what it was like thirty one years ago when I'm saying it was super super busy. And I pulled out into the traffic and I heard, "Put your seatbelt on." And I'm like yah yah yah."PUT ON YOUR SEATBELT!" And I put my seatbelt on and I'm like, "Okay, okay, got it." And I put my seatbelt on and not three minutes later I was at a light and the light turned green and I went forward. Next thing I know I'm in the middle of the intersection. It was a six lane intersection. I had been hit by a drunk driver. So that's the thing about trust isn't it Terry? It sure is about trust. That's when I realized how loud the words were. I think it was probably the first time. My angels always talk to me especially when I was a law enforcement and, you know. I always followed my intuition. But it was the first time I heard words like that, that were so loud and intense. The car didn't have airbags. So if I did it, I mean that was thirty one years ago. If I did not have my seatbelt on. My banged up face would have been a lot worse. But not having bags probably saved my daughter's life even though she had contusions from the straps. She was fine but still, it's like, oh goodness. Our intuition is very very strong if we listen to it and it is a muscle. I will say this. Intuition is a muscle that needs to be practiced. For me it started with the audio. I mean I was always clairsentient, but then the audio piece came in. My very first book in nineteen ninety eight on telephone skills was called 1-800 Courtesy, Connecting With The Winning Telephone Image. That book literally was downloaded with the angels. I was studying to be a reiki master at the time. It was nineteen ninety six. The book contract landed in my lap in nineteen ninety seven and I was studying to be a reiki master with twelve other professional women. I was sent telling them how frustrated and scared I was to write this first book. One of them said, "Why don't you just ask for writing angel, a writing guide." And I went ah, da. And on the way home I asked for a writing guide and Audra showed up. I would meet with her every morning at two, three o'clock in the morning. Put my hands on the keyboard, bada-bing bada-boom out came this book. It's the same way, the way mine came out too. Exactly the same way and they wouldn't let me sleep. (Laughter) I was like, "Oh my god I'm getting woken up at two, three o'clock in the morning. Really." I thought it was interesting what you brought up about your first book and I'd love to know, how does the intuitive blend in with having a positive conversation? Well when you're interacting with someone, like you and I are. The intuitive is about what I call third level listening. It's about when you sit down and you have the conversation does the phone ring at a specific point in time. Does the computer go off at a specific point in time. What is happening? Often times I'll look out and I'll see a specific kind of bird, which has a specific meaning, and I take that and integrated into the conversation. Or I'll be walking on my phone. I'm not walking on phone. (Laughter) Having a conversation with my headset in. I'm walking around the block and I'll see something and it triggers intuitively the next question. So it puts me into a position as a quote where I can ask open ended questions and be guided by what is going on around me by the words that I hear and how I feel. Somebody may say something and all of a sudden my gut is like, oh no no no no no no. So I will put out a question, in an open ended format, that I get some feedback on from the person I'm interacting with. I can tell whether I'm supposed to continue along in that vein based on how my body feels. Is that gut thing, is still there, has it lessened, is it getting better? sometimes I get a pain somewhere. Pain in my shoulder and what I find is because I tend to be empathic I'll often pick up the pain in the person I'm interacting with and they could be three thousand miles away. So that's all part of being intuitive is in using your body and using what is outside of you. And that's third level listening so you're integrating both, your inner world with your outer world. Wow, Terry you are an absolutely amazing woman. I love chatting with you and I'd love to have you back on the show. Isn't it amazing how fast this goes? (Laughter) It sure does. Do you have any parting thoughts that you would like to share with our listeners? Always listen to your heart. Always listen to your heart. If your heart keeps saying to do something, take the leap, trust it, do it. Awesome. That's absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for being with me today Terry. I just absolutely love being in your company. And likewise. We have a lot of fun, every time we're together. Yes we do. So thank you everybody for joining us today. I really really appreciate it and Terry I want you to tell them how they can reach out to you or do you have a little gift for them? I do. They can reach me at www.IntuitiveLeadership.com and they can download a tool that I use to help folks reduce their stress levels. They can go to QuickShiftZone.com. That sounds like a whole different show. It is. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much, that's www.IntuitiveLeadership.com and there you can connect with Terry Wildemann and she will help you get on track intuitively as a leader. See you next week. Bye Bye. Have a wonderful week. (Clap) That's it. That was fun. Thank you for joining us on Ascended Masters At Work radio. We hope you gained insights that will change the way you do business, generate a consistent income, and provide a new enlightened path toward financial freedom and designing the lifestyle of your dreams. And if you simply can't wait to purchase Shirlene's book Selling Through Your Heart, Empowering You To Build Relationships For Financial Freedom at SellingThroughYourHeart.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Action News Jax's Beth Rousseau is live at Naval Station Mayport as families send off members of the military.

We've featured a handful of Veterans from professional sports on this podcast including an NFL player, an NCAA coach, and an NWSL goalie. This week we add a golfer to that list. Navy Veteran Billy Hurley is the only military Veteran currently listed on the PGA tour. Hurley is a 2004 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Quantitative Economics. He also was named Academic All-American. He was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy in 2004, rising to the rank of Lieutenant. After his graduation from the academy, he was assigned to the USS Gettysburg, a guided-missile cruiser based in Mayport, Florida, where he was a combat electronic division officer and on the USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He had an extended deployment in the Persian Gulf, where he held the position of guided missile destroyer's force protection assistant. He left the Navy to pursue a career in golf and has successfully made it onto the PGA tour. Billy will talk to us about his military service, pursuing golf, and how his military career has contributed to his success as a golfer.

JMN is live today at Naval Station Mayport.

Changes to CMS-ID Mean More Opportunities at Negotiation, USS Iwo Jima and USS New York Return to Mayport

We wrap up our two-part series by discussing the beginnings of a rejuvination happening in the Atlantic Beach neighborhood of Mayport, the larger array of arts and culture magazines available around the First Coast and the passage of the human rights legislation for Jax's LGBTQ community. In addition, we talk about one thing we love and one thing we dislike about Jacksonville and read three of Mayor Lenny Curry's tweets out loud for discussion.

Update on Florida's push to get a nuclear carrier to Mayport.

Harold Lee returns to the podcast to drop some knowledge on his youngest grandson. Topics covered are Elkton Diner history, Turkey's role in World War I, bringing train service back to Elkton, how we are related to General John Buford and his role in the Civil War. Also we talk of Harold's mother's experience teaching school in the bayou. Cameos from grandmother Frances Lee and family friend Jim Kline. Thanks to the estates of Hank Williams and Patsy Cline. @DMTAMpod

Taboo Talk, a Christian talk show featuring Lady Charmaine Day (Pastor, Author and Christian Consultant www.ladycharmaineday.com). Taboo Talk helps individuals transform their mind, body, and spirit utilizing the principles of Jesus Christ! Guest starring Lynette Rivers. Lynette Rivers was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She has a Masters Degree in Theology and Christian Counseling from Zoe University. She is an ordained reverend and has given back to her community in Mayport, Florida by having a food drive ministry that fed over 400 people every other month since 2009. She is also mother of one son and proud grandmother of two grandchildren. She works with the state of Florida as a Social Worker in Economic Services. She is passionate about building up other christians spiritual foundation by focusing on the lives of the prophets from the old testament in her ministry. She is available for presentations or consultations and can be reached at rivers.lynette@yahoo.com. During this episode Ms. Rivers discusses how she was led to be a servant of God, how people can strengthen their spiritual foundation and her recommendations for anyone in service to the lord or who want to become a servant of God to incorporate in their spiritual journey.

Last week, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the Navy is still working on plans to move one of its Norfolk-based aircraft carriers to Mayport, Florida. What would that mean for Hampton Roads? Plus, we'll update you on "The Tide," HRT's Light Rail project in Norfolk, and whether it's still on track and meeting budget guidelines. . And, what's on your mind? We want to know, so send us your comments and feedback to hearsay@whro.org. We'll read them on the air, then open up the phone lines. Give us a call at 440-2665 or 1-800 940-2240. Join us!