From HSToday: When emergency management walks out the door

“Across government, a generational turnover is underway. Many of the men and women who built modern emergency management came of age professionally after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the wars that reshaped homeland security. They learned through lived catastrophe. Their judgment was forged not just in classrooms but in EOCs at 3 a.m., during fuel shortages, radio failures, and moments when the plan fell apart and improvisation saved lives. 

Now they are retiring. Not gradually, but in clusters. “