Charley Hogwood is the chief instructor at Personal Readiness Education Programs (PREP). With over 15 years of experience in the US Army and Florida National Guard, Charley has devoted his life to disaster and emergency preparedness. He holds a certificate in Emergency Management and has 49 FEMA certificates with 100s of hours of training and instruction in disaster readiness, business contingency and continuity planning, emergency operations policies and procedures, mass prophylaxis planning, nuclear WMD responder operations, rapid disaster impact assessment, volunteer management and more. He is also a speaker presenting on emergency management topics such as hurricane preparedness.