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Home : Features : 2007 : Vigilant Guard

Vigilant Guard Indiana

**What is Exercise "Vigilant Guard"?**An 11-day, Indiana National Guard-hosted exercise that will test the National Guard as the first military responder in support of the governor and the state emergency management agency. "Vigilant Guard" reinforces that all incidents are local. The exercise will demonstrate the capabilities of the Indiana National Guard Joint Force Headquarters, the Joint Task Force-Indiana, and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) – the process where Governors reach out to other governors for more assistance. Specific National Guard homeland defense capabilities will include the National Guard Reaction Forces, Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Enhanced Response Package teams.

**What is the exercise scenario?**A simulated 10-kiloton nuclear device detonation will drive the deployment of National Guard personnel from Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, the National Guard Bureau, and other states.

**Who will participate?**More than 2,000 National Guard personnel from Indiana and surrounding states will participate – all under the command and control of the Governor of Indiana through EMAC. These National Guard forces will operate and train alongside other participants including Indiana county and state agencies, the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region V, and the Department of Energy.

Vigilant Guard News

9-1-1: Nuclear detonation; Exercise Vigilant Guard tests National Guard's role as first military responderMay 16, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - Even the response to a 10-kiloton nuclear device detonating in an American city... MORE 

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Attaches Survey U.S. Disaster-Response CapabilitiesMay 15, 2007 — MUSCATATUCK URBAN TRAINING CENTER, Ind. - A handful of attaches got a first-hand look at U.S... MORE 

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Vigilant Guard: Voices of experience add to the trainingMay 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The National Guard exercise Vigilant Guard this month is offering service... MORE 

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Mothers wore combat boots and gas masks on their special dayMay 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The National Restaurant Association reports that Mother's Day, a 93-year-old... MORE 

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Members of Air Guard medical groups unite for Vigilant GuardMay 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The building had collapsed, and victims were trapped and screaming for medical... MORE 

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Hands that held weapons now hold hopeMay 12, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - As the Vigilant Guard exercise continues to test National Guard members from... MORE 

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Indiana's vigilant medical crew provides care for the caregiversMay 10, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - A day before one of the National Guard's largest homeland defense training... MORE 

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Army to invest $100 million in Muscatatuck; major training exercise to be conducted in MayApril 17, 2007 — INDIANAPOLIS - Nearly $100 million will be invested in the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center over... MORE 

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HURREX Rhode Island

**What is the "HURREX"?**A Hurricane Exercise, or "HURREX," is the National Guard's support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) 2007 hurricane preparedness exercise series. The hurricane season begins 1 June 2007 and, as in previous years, the National Guard is always ready, always there. Exercises like these ensure that the National Guard is even more capable and more ready than when 50,000 Citizen-Soldiers and – Airmen saved more than 17,000 lives during Hurricane Katrina.

**What is the exercise scenario?**A simulated category 3 hurricane (Hurricane "Yvette") will hit Newport, RI, during this 11-day Command Post Exercise (CPX). A CPX is an opportunity to train command staff, and subordinate and supporting leaders in order to successfully plan, coordinate, and synchronize efforts during an emergency.

**Who will participate?**The CPX does not require the deployment of any National Guard members. However, seven New England states and the National Guard Bureau will support this exercise to enhance the emergency response capabilities and coordination of all first responders. The CPX is a joint exercise of local, state and federal agencies, the Department of Defense, FEMA (Regions I and II), and the Department of Homeland Security.

**Why does the National Guard exercise with civil authorities?**The "HURREX" presents both civilian first response agencies and the National Guard – the first military responder - an opportunity to participate in a full range of training scenarios that will better prepare all participants to respond to a local, state and/or national crisis. The National Guard exercises along with state and civil authorities to better improve the unity of effort between all first response agencies in the event of a disaster. The unity of effort established by these training exercises better equips civilian and military entities to operate seamlessly in a joint environment.

HURREX Rhode Island News

Exercise Tests Hurricane-Response Plans in Northeastern U.S.April 30, 2007 — WASHINGTON - National Guard members today commenced a hurricane emergency preparedness and response... MORE 

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Northern Edge Alaska

**What is Exercise "Northern Edge?"**A joint training exercise designed to test military and civilian responses and coordination capabilities should multiple terrorist incidents occur throughout the state of Alaska. This exercise will test the integration capabilities between the National Guard’s civil support, aviation, security, and communications teams, along with civilian first responders.

**What is the exercise scenario?**Multiple simulated terrorist attacks requiring response and consequence management will occur during the 11-day exercise. Simulated attacks will be launched on: a North Pole industrial complex, a North Slope pumping facility, a mass casualty incident in the City of Fairbanks, and an improvised explosive device discovered in transit from Seward, AK.

**Who will participate?**More than 200 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from Alaska, Idaho and Nebraska will work alongside state and federal government and non-governmental response agencies including: the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 10.

**Why does the National Guard exercise with civil authorities**Exercise "Northern Edge" presents both civilian first response agencies and the National Guard – the first military responder - an opportunity to participate in a full range of training scenarios that will better prepare all participants to respond to a local, state and/or national crisis. The National Guard exercises along with state and civil authorities to better improve the unity of effort between all first response agencies in the event of a disaster. The unity of effort established by these training exercises better equips civilian and military entities to operate seamlessly in a joint environment.

Northern Edge Alaska News

Stressed to the Seams, Alaska Shield still holds its Northern EdgeMay 16, 2007 — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - "You get out of it what you build into it," said Col. Jerry Kidrick, Deputy... MORE 

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Simulated terrorist threat trains military, civilian agenciesMay 15, 2007 — SEWARD, Alaska - The first week of the Alaska Shield/Northern Edge 07 exercise culminated here May... MORE 

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Northern Edge Combined Training ExerciseMay 9, 2007 — Fairbanks, Alaska - Today in Fairbanks exercise officials conducted the most involved scenario of... MORE 

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You Can Sleep Uninterrupted...May 7, 2007 — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska National Guard is in the midst of a crisis, a practice crisis... MORE 

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Generals Campbell and Fraser Announce Alaska Shield Northern Edge 2007April 12, 2007 — Anchorage, Alaska - Major General Craig E. Campbell, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of... MORE 

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