But I had to read about it in a Knoxville, TN newspaper’s blog to get wind of it.
Fed, state agencies target Kitsap for terrorism drill
Terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device alongside a Department of Energy (DOE) convoy transporting U.S. nuclear weapons on or near State Route 3 in Kitsap County around 1 p.m. Monday, July 28.
Phone calls were made and federal, state and local officials quickly descended upon Kitsap County, some in less than 24 hours.
This was the scenario laid out by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which sponsored the week-long exercise, Diablo Bravo 2008.
I hope it went well. No article I can find says whether it did.
I wonder if they landed medivac helos at the “radioactive” blast site, blowing “radioactivity” all around (creating the same effect as detonating MORE bombs), then landed the “hot” helos INSIDE the must-Decon ring at the trauma center.
Don’t laugh, that happened in Portland when this same sort of disaster drill was held.
They wouldn’t even have caught their egregious error had it not been for my daughter, who (MS-4 Med student) suspected something wrong, called me and I clued her in that the helos had to decon along with their patients before entry to the hospital triage area (according to military rules for the same sort of chem-bio-nuke warfare scenario).
These dot.gov people, running these horribly expensive drills, don’t seem to have read the basic Field Manuals that the military requires every E-1 boot recruit to know by heart.