a key area of concern for the
Department of Defense and Deputy
Secretary of Defense , Kathleen Hicks
are the effects of climate change on
our installations , particularly things
like drought and wildfire on our
installations here in southern
California , Camp Pendleton , Deputy
Secretary Hicks met with the California ,
Department of Forestry and Fire
protection or cal fire personnel who
support California , wild land
firefighting and military personnel
from Marine Aircraft Group 39 to thank
them for their hard work and dedication
and combating wildfires that impact our
bases and training areas and discuss
the effects of drought and wildfires on
our installations , our people and our
neighbors in the local community . We
at dod are doing our part to combat
climate change . Just last year , we
released our first dod climate risk
analysis focused on the geo strategic
and mission implications of climate
change . We also released the dod
climate adaptation plan , our roadmap
to ensure the department maintains the
ability to operate under changing
climate conditions . Just this month we
released our first progress report on
the cap , a measure of how we're doing
to accomplish our climate resilience
goals . Those documents plus climate
plans for each of our military services
are available on defense dot gov . I'd
encourage you to check them out . Just
search for tackling the climate crisis