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coordination function for dozens of priority countries,
including those in which the United States would mobilize or contemplate R&S activities.31
Within the DOS, the fate of S/CRS hung in the balance through the change of administrations and the
first year of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. A major turning point was the decision
not to mobilize S/CRS crisis response teams in the aftermath of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, despite
a recent table-top exercise conducted jointly with the
DOD that had envision