NorthComs South Carolina nuke drill-Aug.11th

Read carefully what was announced in their posting January of this
year.....for "a very good excercise", including FEMA, including "external
participants"--who are they? (Mossad, "enemy surprises"?).

Also, was interesting to see Connie Rice with Pres on his "vacation"....they are preparing, while looking "casual".
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Exercise to focus on nuclear terror scenario
Posted Jun 29, 2005 at 1:00:PM MDT
http://www.northcom.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.showstory&storyid=C9BFBBAC-F3CA-BD2E-008C7B34AFE33114

FORT MONROE, Va. -- Here's the scenario.A seafaring vessel transporting a
10-kiloton nuclear warhead makes its way into a port off the coast of
Charleston, S.C. Terrorists aboard the ship attempt to smuggle the warhead
off the ship to detonate it. Is this really a possibility?

Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) here is planning its next exercise
on the premise that this crisis is indeed plausible.

Sudden Response 05 will take place this August on Fort Monroe and will be
carried out as an internal command post exercise. The exercise is intended
to train the JTF-CS staff to plan and execute Consequence Management
operations in support of Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IV's
response to a nuclear detonation.

Some of this year's objectives for SR05 are to refine nuclear incident
Concept of Operations, produce a CM Operation Order, refine command post
set-up procedures and maintain situational awareness of multiple CM
incidents.

The Sudden Response exercise has been held at Quantico, Va., in the past,
but has been moved to Fort Monroe to maximize command post training time.
The senior leadership felt that it was more important to accomplish training
instead of losing up to a day and a half in travel time, said Paul Deflueri,
J7 Lead Exercise Planner. "This will allow us to still meet our training
objectives," he said.

Some external participants may work with JTF-CS during the exercise.

"We're trying to get representatives from FEMA Region IV as well as
representatives from South Carolina Emergency Management Division and active
duty soldiers from the (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and
Explosive) Consequence Management Response Force to play the role of task
force units," Defluri said.

"Each time we do one of these internal exercises, we try to make it more
robust and try to add in fidelity," Defluri said. "That's what we're trying
to do for SR05: create a good scenario and be able to replicate the effects
as best we can. That way we can give the command a really good CM exercise."