After Action Report for the Response to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings

This After Action Report (AAR) describes the events related to response to the Boston Marathon Bombings and associated incidents. The report attempts to constructively evaluate and assess public safety, public health, and medical response actions with the goal of providing agencies and organizations involved in the incident with practical recommendations to address them. Unified command, multi-agency coordination, decentralized decision-making, and use of the incident command system are recurring themes in the document.