Leadership
H. E. ‘Bo’ Mayhew
Senior Partner
Colonel (Retired) H. E. ‘Bo’ Mayhew, USA has long been recognized for his devotion to the resolution of some of the nation’s most pressing and critical disaster issues and has an extensive portfolio of military and civilian emergency management experience.
COL (R) Mayhew initiated his distinguished 32 year military career as an Artillery Officer until his selection for flight school in 1969. After receiving his wings he served as a Cavalry Troop Executive Officer and Cobra gun-ship pilot with the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Viet Nam. His Army career included assignments in Asia, Europe, and Central America. As a senior Operations and Training Officer for US Army South, Republic of Panama he worked with Embassies and Foreign Military General Staffs throughout Central and South America in planning and conducting multiple large scale training operations. He culminated that assignment as Ground Force Operations Officer for Joint Task Force Panama leading the way for Operation Just Cause.
His Pentagon level assignments included Chief, Military Support Operations followed by assignment as Chief of Operations for the National Guard of the United States. While serving in these positions he directed National Guard Operational Support for every major US disaster and special event from 1992-99 to include the Northridge and Loma Prieta Earthquakes, Hurricanes Andrew, Marilyn and Opal, the Midwest Floods the Southeast floods, and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
In the course of his career he deployed to coordinate the response of over 10,000 soldiers, sailors, marines and air men as the Department of Defense Operations Officer for South Carolina during Hurricane Hugo, served as DOD advisor and liaison in California during the Los Angeles Riots, was a primary contributor to the seminal U.S. Federal Response Plan; was personally responsible for initiating the national effort for the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC); and was the innovative lead in developing the current national program for response to Weapons of Mass Destruction for the Department of Defense.
He consults on various federal development projects dealing with the provision of emergency support assets to local and state emergency management entities. He has served as senior evaluator/ facilitator for a series of WMD-related exercises for the New York/New Jersey Port Authority, senior evaluator in the Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC) for a nationwide DHS cyber-exercise, author and senior evaluator for a series of HSEEP based Terrorist exercises for multiple DOD Installations, as well as contributing author and course development leader for the International Academy of Public Safety Training providing global online public safety training and credentialing programs to both the private and public sectors.
COL (R) Mayhew, as Senior Partner, is currently a primary contributor for statewide exercises for the state of Missouri under an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) training and exercise contract held by R.A.M. and Associates LLC.
Louis J. Antonetti
Senior Partner
Brigadier General Lou Antonetti recently retired from the California National Guard after a distinguished 40 year career. His last assignment was as the Deputy Adjutant General and Commander, California Army Guard, commanding a force of nearly 17,000 Soldiers. Throughout his military career he was identified as a highly-skilled leader and strategic thinker who demonstrated an in-depth understanding of Joint and Inter-Governmental/Interagency operations, as well as emergency response and civilian – military relationships.
BG (R) Antonetti began his military career in 1970 when he enlisted in the Californian Army National Guard and received his commission in August, 1973, as a Second Lieutenant assigned to the 1/149th Armor Battalion. General Antonetti’s follow-on military assignments included Company, Battalion, and Regimental Commands, and culminated as Deputy Adjutant General and Commander, California Army National Guard.
BG (R) Antonetti’s passion for supporting civilian authorities grew out of his assignments as the Director Plans, Operations, and Security (POMSO) for the California National Guard, and as the Director, National Interagency Civil-Military Institute (NICI), spanning nearly 9 years of his military career. While assigned as the POMSO, BG (R) Antonetti was a leader in the development of innovative emergency response approaches, policies, and fostered positive cooperation between the emergency management community and the California National Guard. BG (R) Antonetti directly participated in over 600 California State Emergencies and 8 Presidential Declarations, ranging from the 1992 Los Angeles Riots through North Ridge Earthquake to Wild Land Fires and major Flooding throughout California.
As the Director NICI, General Antonetti greatly expanded the scope and quantity of counterdrug, drug demand reduction, military support to civil authorities, and consequence management training programs at the National Interagency Civil Military Institute (NICI). Additionally, during this assignment he developed and implemented combined training programs and exercises for US and international senior officers and officials to work together and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-national response to catastrophic disasters requiring military support. The inauguration of this program included collaboration between the National Guard Bureau, FEMA, and EMERCOM of Russia, resulting in the first combined U.S. – Russian military support to civil authorities’ course.
As an agency, NICI was recognized as the premiere institute of its type in the nation and received numerous accolades from senior civilian and military officials, including cabinet-level recognition from Mr. James Lee Brown, General (retired) Barry McCaffrey, and Attorney General Janet Reno.
Based upon these experiences, BG (R) Antonetti was selected as a principal member of an NGB Working Group to rewrite National Guard Bureau’s regulations and policies addressing Military Support to Civil Authorities, and provide input into the Army and Marine Corps joint Field Manual (FM 100-19) titled, Domestic Support Operations.
Upon leaving NICI, BG (R) Antonetti served as a National Guard Bureau Liaison Officer and Intern to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Washington, D.C. during the period of January through August 1999, working for FEMA’s Executive Associate Director for Response and Recovery and Director of Operations. While at FEMA General Antonetti represented the Department of Defense in the early phases of disaster response to two Presidential Declared Disasters and served as a subject matter expert to Senior Management at FEMA.
BG Antonetti received his Bachelors of Arts Degree from New York Regents and his Master of Science Degree in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University/National War College.
Forest L. ‘Mike’ Ramsey
Managing Partner
Colonel (Retired) Forest L. ‘Mike’ Ramsey, USA retired as a career US Military Officer with extensive emergency management / military support to civil authorities (MSCA) experience. His career covered over 30 thirty years of cumulative military service in addition to extensive experience in the civilian business and government sectors.
His military career began in 1967 with induction into the U.S. Army, covered a tour in South Vietnam as an aviation unit commander, continued in the Kentucky Army National Guard beginning in 1976, then extended through active duty assignments in the international and domestic operations arenas, including Deployment Team Chief for DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM, U.S. Forces Command, and culminating in assignments as Chief of Operations, Army National Guard, and then as Chief, National Guard Bureau Olympic Task Force, providing over 13,000 National Guard personnel for security support to the 1996 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Atlanta, and ending as the National Guard Bureau’s Special Officer for Counter-Terrorism and member of the National Security Council Senior Working Group.
His experience as Chief of Operations, Army National Guard, saw extensive involvement with Defense Support to Civil Authority in disaster response and domestic military activities across the nation, with direct involvement in national support to Hurricane Marilyn, Northridge earthquakes, Midwest and Southeastern floods, Summit of the Americas, Southwest Border Counter Drug projects, Papal visits, and overall responsibility for the physical security of over 5000 Army National Guard facilities in 54 states and territories, in addition to assignment as Chief of Intelligence for the Army National Guard.
Colonel (R) Ramsey has been heavily involved in the development of Homeland Security and Disaster-Preparedness training courses and materials, including the nationally-distributed computer-based Weapons of Mass Destruction Basic Awareness Training, under grant from the Office of Domestic Preparedness, Department Of Justice, Hospital Considerations – Mass Casualties,; Legal Aspects of Crisis Events and C.B.R.N.E. (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives) classroom instruction, as well as state-level disaster preparedness training exercises in California, Florida, Kansas, New York and Missouri.
COL (R) Ramsey was senior evaluator for a week-long business continuity exercise involving a major terrorism event for The World Bank, as well as the Senior Facilitator in the Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC) in Washington, DC for a nationwide Department of Homeland Security cyber-terrorism exercise.
The company, R.A.M. & Associates LLC is a co-creator of the International Academy of Public Safety Training (IAPST) with the Center for Rural Development, as well as currently under a statewide contract to the state of Missouri for provision of disaster and terrorism-related training to all state agencies and municipalities.
