NORAD and USNORTHCOM Conduct ARDENT SENTRY 2012
April 24, 2012
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will conduct a major exercise, ARDENT SENTRY 2012, focused on Defense Support of Civil Authorities, May 2 – 9, 2012.
The exercise will be primarily a Command Post Exercise, but there will be field training events within the exercise. Those events will take place in North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Alaska, Connecticut and Nova Scotia and involve United States and Canadian military units.
- North Dakota, the Air Force Global Strike Command will respond to a simulated Nuclear Weapons Incident (NUWAIX) on Minot Air Force Base.
- Oregon, the Oregon National Guard will work with state and local officials to respond to numerous weather-related and security events.
- Texas, US Army North will deploy a task force to work through the process of leading a military response to a major hurricane.
- Alaska, Joint Task Force-Alaska will conduct a coordinated response to a major aircraft crash in a remote area.
- Nova Scotia, Canadian and US Naval forces will work together to handle a security related event.
ARDENT SENTRY 12 will validate existing plans, policies, and procedures, including the Federal Inter-agency Response Plan, as well as state and regional plans.
For more information, contact USNORTHCOM Public Affairs at 719-554-6889 or 719-304-6097.
Further Update:
ARDENT SENTRY EXERCISE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576520803512067140.html
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August 20, 2011, 8:07 p.m. ET
Plane Crash in Canadian Arctic Kills 12
By CHIP CUMMINS and BEN DUMMETT
TORONTO -- A Boeing 737-200 carrying 15 crashed Saturday afternoon near the town of Resolute in Canada's Arctic North, killing 12, Canadian authorities and air-industry officials said.
Police and rescue forces didn't disclose the identity of the fatalities. The crash comes amid Canada's annual Arctic military exercise, Operation Nanook, based partly out of Resolute, a small Inuit community. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is slated to visit Resolute early next week.
A spokesman for the Canadian Forces, the country's military, said it was a civilian flight, and the military had ceased its exercises to render assistance. Military helicopters and fire-fighting assets were assisting civilian emergency-response personnel in securing the crash site, the spokesman said. A spokesman for Canada's Transportation Safety Board said agency investigators, who had been participating in the military exercise, were already on site.
The plane was chartered by First Air, a Canadian carrier that services several remote destinations in Canada's northern reaches, which extend well into the Arctic Circle. The plane crashed early afternoon on Saturday about five miles from Resolute's airport, according to a statement from the airline. It was flying from Yellowknife, Northern Territories, to Resolute.
First Air confirmed 12 deaths and three survivors, who were taken to medical facilities. The carrier said the plane had 11 passengers and four crewmembers.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in a statement late Saturday, said one of the three survivors was a child, and that one of the other two adult survivors was in critical condition.
The carrier operates a variety of planes, specially equipped for the Arctic's harsh flying conditions, which often include landing on gravel or ice strips, according to its website.
Remember Operation Nanook 2011.
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Are military training exercises hazardous to civilian safety?
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