Fishing Poles and Guns of August

Matt pointed out a curious story about Cheney and a couple of Black Hawk Helicopters fishing in Southeastern Montana.

Then I heard George Noory and Alex Jones were talking about Cheney's Guns of August on Coast to Coast radio again tonight, and I thought this is doubly exciting for us Montanan's because the Shadow Man himself is going to be in Billings raising money, a thousand bucks a head, for his Little Buddy on the fifteenth, I think.

August 15, that reminds me...

Aug. 15 | A weapons of mass destruction situation will take place at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., that will involve the Army, the Air Force at adjoining Pope Air Force Base and the FBI. The exercise may involve emergency and law enforcement from seven counties surrounding the base.

Aug. 16 | An as-yet undetermined event will take place at Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., and may involve response by local emergency and law enforcement units.

Aug. 17 | A vehicle will explode on the Cedar Island-Ocracoke Ferry in Pamlico Sound. Helicopter units from Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station will rescue survivors and the Coast Guard and law enforcement agencies will secure the scene and determine whether the incident is connected with earlier ones.

An oil spill will take place at the State Port in Morehead City, N.C., that will involve response by the Coast Guard.

Aug. 18 | There will be the threat of a radiological dispersion device during a military offload at the Morehead City port, used by Camp Lejeune.

A small scale pneumonic plague will potentially spread from animals to humans beginning outside Camp Lejeune in Onslow County, N.C.

An as yet undetermined event will take place in or around Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal in Brunswick County, N.C.

Would this exercise be included here, or is it a stand alone?

OnFORT 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.

Is it true that many in the Army and the Marines are hacing their leaves suspended for August? Is it true that Michael Chertoff is getting a new Domestic Nuclear Detection Office?