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Terrorism Exercise a Success Because It Demonstrated Flaws, Official Says
A drill jointly conducted last month by the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) succeeded because it exposed flaws in federal, state and local agencies ability to respond to terrorist attacks and natural disasters, an official said Monday (see GSN, Feb. 13). The “United Defense ’04” exercise, the first to be jointly conducted by the Northern Command and NORAD, was held from Feb. 19 to Feb. 25 and involved scenarios such as a nuclear threat and a hurricane in Texas, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. More than 50 government agencies in Texas, Alaska, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C., participated in the exercise. Marine Col. Gene Pino said the results of the exercise would rate a six or a seven on a 10-point scale. He did not discuss details of the flaws in the response. “Our job is to empower this nation to protect its citizens … and I think this exercise significantly helped us do that, and it made all the federal agencies that participated better capable of doing that,” Pino said. The next exercise, set to involve a chemical disaster scenario in California, is scheduled to be held in August, the Gazette reported (Pam Zubeck, Colorado Springs Gazette, March 2).
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