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COL H. E. 'Bo' Mayhew, USA (RET) has long been recognized for his devotion to the resolution of some of the nation's most pressing and critical disaster issues. He comes to SEG with an extensive portfolio of military and civilian emergency management experience.
COL Mayhew culminated his 30-year military career as Special Advisor to the Army National Guard, Domestic Military Support, on March 31, 1999. During his distinguished career, he performed as a Cobra gun-ship pilot, 1st Air Cavalry Division in 1969-70, an operations officer for US Army South, Republic of Panama, during Operation Just Cause and other operations; as Chief, Military Support Branch, National Guard Bureau, during the Los Angeles Riots, Northridge and Loma Prieta Earthquakes, and Mid-West Floods; and as Chief, Operations Division during Hurricanes Marilyn and Opal, the Southeast Floods, and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
In the course of his career, COL Mayhew was a primary contributor to the seminal U.S. Federal Response Plan in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo; instrumental in initiating the current movement toward a national Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) between neighboring states, of which 49 states and two territories are currently signatories; was personally responsible for developing the series of engineering exercises in Central and South America referred to as: Minuteman in 1982, Blazing Trails, Abriendo Rutas, Fuertas Caminos, and finally, Nuevo Horizontes in 1998; and was the innovative lead in developing the current national program for response to Weapons of Mass Destruction for the Department of Defense.