The Timely Alert series of Force Protection exercises has been used by the Fort Monmouth Garrison since 2000 to exercise Fort Monmouth’s state of preparedness to respond to a terrorist, natural disaster, hazmat, and/or pandemic influenza event. Timely Alert VIII was the latest of these exercises and was a multi-phase, multi-level, multi-discipline Force Protection Full [...]
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The Fort Monmouth Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) supports local communities through Mutual Aid Agreements and, as such, is often just part of the Incident Command System as a participant and not in charge of the incident in the Incident Command Post (ICP). On Fort Monmouth proper, most police and fire incidents are small and [...]
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This exercise was conducted at the request of the Monmouth County Health Officers and the Monmouth County Health Department in order to comply with the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services programmatic requirement for an annual exercise. The objective of the exercise was to assess the relationships between state, county, and local public health [...]
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Timely Alert VII was the latest of the Timely Alert series of exercises and was a multi-phase, multi-level, multi-discipline Force Protection Full Scale Exercise (FSE) conducted for the Fort Monmouth Garrison by The James Thomas Group (TJTG). The exercise began in mid-April with an ever increasing information/intelligence buildup leading to the FSE that was conducted [...]
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Fort Monmouth participated in a Command Post Force Protection Exercise conducted by MPRI on April 23. The objectives of the exercise were: to identify requirements and weaknesses in the Garrison’s ability to manage an emergency situation; to assess the Installation’s Emergency Management Program,; and to validate/update the Emergency Operations Plan, Anti-Terrorism Plan, the Installations Operations Center Plan, [...]
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Timely Alert VI was a continuation of the Fort Monmouth Timely Alert (TA) Exercise Series. TA VI explored how Monmouth County, Fort Monmouth and our neighboring communities would respond to the effects of a Cat 3 hurricane that crashes into the New Jersey coast in the middle of a pandemic where almost 40% of the [...]
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Timely Alert V was a PI TTX conducted on the evenings of October 4 and 5, 2006 at the U.S. Army Garrison Headquarters at Fort Monmouth. Over 25 emergency management, health and military agencies at the Federal, state, county and local levels participated in the TTX. The PI TTX Scenario was based on US DHHS [...]
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Fort Monmouth conducted a TTX using an Avian Flu scenario to evaluate the Fort’s capability to respond to such an outbreak and continue it’s mission, to identify essential elements to considerwhen developing a viable PI plan, to provide a forum for discussing critical aspects of a PI outbreak, to educate the Ft Monmouth community on PI [...]
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This scenario of this FSX remained the same as TOPOFF 3 but the focus changed to decentralized medication distribution by streamlining and improving the distribution system for Monmouth County, to include Fort Monmouth. This included pre-registration of key and essential personnel, the use of non-traditional means of moving prophylaxis to local community distribution centers using boats, [...]
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TJTG conducted a Hazardous Material Table Top Exercise (TTX) for the City of Long Branch on the evening of June 20, 2005 at the Long Branch Senior Center.
The purpose of the TTX was to offer participants and observers an opportunity to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities of emergency management when confronting a [...]
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