I’m not sure how you train specifically for an event like this but it sounds like they made it as big and as stressful as possible. I think that’s about the best you can do.
When National Guard planners set in motion a training exercise to test the force’s abilities as the first military responder to a catastrophic nuclear explosion, it was destined to fail.
A simulated wounded person is marked for decontamination and treatment by a member of the Guard’s newly formed Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Package, or CERFP teams, while training as part of Vigilant Guard May 12 at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind. The CERFP includes search and extraction, decontamination, medical and command and control elements of both the Army and Air National Guard. Defense Department photo by Fred W. Baker III
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That’s exactly what they wanted.National Guard Chief Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum said yesterday his staff deliberately put together the worst possible scenario that would test the limits of the Guard’s ability to respond to such a disaster and interact with other state and federal agencies.
That scenario played out on a sprawling, 1,000-acre rural training area just outside of Indianapolis, Ind., as more than 2,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of state and federal emergency response agencies worked through the disaster scenario of a 10-kiloton nuclear explosion in Indianapolis.
Named “Vigilant Guard,” the exercise put into place new capabilities and technologies — nearly all of which have been developed since 9/11 — that have yet to be tested in an exercise of this scale.
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Very interesting… as always! Cheers from -Switzerland-.