Messrs. Michael Ruane and Roger Harding of the James Thomas Group, West Long Branch, NJ, USA met with Brian Linehan, the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Ireland, and Mr. David Walsh, a retired Irish Garda and security consultant, in Dublin on Friday, February 1. The meeting was exploratory in nature and covered a variety [...]
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by Louise Cooper, Garrison
After two years of careful planning, the first class of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) graduated last month.
Fourteen military and civilian volunteers received their certificates after completing more than 20 hours of basic training in fire suppression, first aid and medical operations, family disaster preparedness, incident management, disaster mental health and [...]
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Article by Louise Cooper, Planner, US Army Garrison, Fort Monmouth, NJ
Posted on 1 June, 2007
Fort Monmouth will host a disaster preparedness exercise Thursday, June 7 with more than 150 people representing 40 agencies from the local, county, state and federal level. The exercise, written and conducted by The James Thomas Group, a West Long Branch [...]
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by Louise Cooper
Monmouth Message, June 7, 2007
Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security Directorate
Almost 200 emergency management experts from throughout the state moved into offices in the Myer Center with their laptops, plans, and maps during a Fort Monmouth disaster preparedness exercise held June 7.
They formed small working groups where they brainstormed solutions to a simulated nationwide [...]
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A disaster preparedness exercise was scheduled to take place at Fort Monmouth Thursday with more than 150 people representing 40 agencies from the local, county, state, and federal levels.
The Timely Alert VI Tabletop Exercise scenario was a contiuation of the nationwide avian flu pandemic that began in Timely Alert V held here in October with [...]
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by Josh Davidson, Symbolic Systems Inc. Team C4ISR KC
It was about four years ago when coalition forces made an initial run into Baghdad. The Army rapidly cobbled together a suite of digital Battle Command systems to support the initial fight.
They were the size of a pack of cigarettes, painted green, contained a nylon filament and [...]
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by Louise Cooper
Three team members from the Garrison’s Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security attended an emergency management planning session last week hosted by the New Jersey State Police held at the Monmouth County Office of Emergency Management, Freehold.
Michael Ruane, a counter-terrorism and emergency management specialist with The James Thomas Group, and Staff Sargeant [...]
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Article By: Louise Cooper, Garrison DPTMS
October 30, 2006
Two Fort Monmouth police cars escorted an unmarked van carrying 200 doses of avian flu medicine from an unidentified place in Monmouth County to Paterson Army Health Clinic (PAHC) during Timely Alert V, a disaster preparedness exercise held October 4 and 5.
The medicine was reserved for hospital [...]
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by Keith Brown, COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
FORT MONMOUTH – Hospital workers, police and other emergency personnel from the fort received the first batch of faux Avian flu medicine Thursday morning as part of a simulation aimed at testing procedures that would manage widewspread disaster in Monmouth County.
Nearly 100 representatives from area emergency management agencies, hospitals and [...]
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by Henry Kearney, Fort Monmouth Public Affair Officer
Fort Monmouth will host a three-phase disaster preparedness exercise Wednesday, October 4, and Thursday, October 5, involving several federal, state, regional and municipal health and safety and emergency planning organizations.
Participants in the “Timely Alert” exercise will include the fort’s Dirtectorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security and other [...]
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