Speaker

Disaster Preparedness

As a circa-1976 native of North Georgia, Richard (Rickey) Clement began his education in Emergency Preparedness early in life. Several significant events, including being caught on a school bus during a tornado, started his lifelong interest in emergency preparedness, and later in disaster mitigation. His first training came from the Boy Scouts of America, first earning the merit badge and later becoming a counselor for the badge after earning the rank of Eagle.

Since his scouting days, Rickey has found through his life that emergency preparedness is the "forgotten subject" that everyone realizes the need, but doesn't learn about. Having survived three Category 1 Hurricanes himself, he was reminded of this need when he participated in an Internet establishment team (Naval Postgraduate School, Detachment One, assigned to the Maritime Component Commander for Joint Task Force Katrina) in Mississippi two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi.

Rickey has given this lecture to multiple military groups, Civil Defense Organizations, and Amateur Radio clubs. Through the years. he has participated in:
Forsyth County, Georgia Skywarn (1992-1994)
Monterey County, CA (2004-2006):
Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)
Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)
Skywarn
Honolulu (2006-Present):
Oahu Civil Defense Agency RACES
Skywarn

In his other life, Rickey graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 with a BS in Computer Science and a commission in the United States Navy. After tours in Pearl Harbor and Norfolk, VA, he returned to school at the Naval Postgraduate School, and received a MS in Information Technology Management. Currently, he holds the rank of Lieutenant, and is assigned to Defense Information Systems Agency Pacific as the Deputy Chief, Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service Gateway.

At home, he is married to Patrice Clement, with children Arianna (5) and Drake (1).