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National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011)
FACT SHEET
National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011) is scheduled for May 2011. The purpose of the exercise is to prepare and coordinate a multiple-jurisdictional integrated response to a national catastrophic event.
NLE 2011 is designated as a Tier I National Level Exercise. Tier I exercises (formerly known as the Top Officials exercise series or TOPOFF) are conducted annually in accordance with the National Exercise Program (NEP), which serves as the nation’s overarching exercise program for planning, organizing, conducting and evaluating national level exercises. The NEP was established to provide the U.S. government, at all levels, exercise opportunities to prepare for catastrophic crises ranging from terrorism to natural disasters.
NLE 2011 is a White House directed Congressionally-mandated exercise that includes the participation of all appropriate federal department and agency senior officials, their deputies and staff; and key operational elements. NLE 2011 will focus on regional catastrophic response and recovery activities between federal, regional, state, tribal, local and private sector participants.
Exercise Focus
NLE 2011 will simulate the catastrophic nature of a major earthquake in the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). The year 2011 is the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, for which the NMSZ is named. NLE 2011 will be the first NLE to simulate a natural hazard.
NLE 2011 activities will take place at command posts, emergency operation centers and other locations to include federal facilities in the Washington D.C. area and federal, regional, state, tribal, local and private sector facilities in the eight member states of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC). The eight member states of CUSEC encompass four different FEMA regions: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee (FEMA Region IV); Illinois and Indiana (FEMA Region V); Arkansas (FEMA Region VI); and Missouri (FEMA Region VII).
Exercise Objectives
Through a comprehensive evaluation process, the exercise will assess response and recovery capabilities both nationally and regionally. The exercise is designed to validate the following capabilities:
Communications
Critical resource logistics and distribution
Mass care (sheltering, feeding and related services)
Medical surge
Citizen evacuation and shelter-in-place
Emergency public information and warning
Emergency operations center (EOC) management
Long term recovery
Validating the Homeland Security System
Exercises such as NLE 2011 are an important component of national preparedness, helping to build an integrated federal, state, tribal, local and private sector capability to manage a catastrophic event; and rapidly and effectively respond to and recover from any major disaster that occurs.
The functional exercise offers agencies and jurisdictions a way to test their plans and skills in a real-time, realistic environment and to gain the in-depth knowledge that only experience can provide. Participants will exercise response and recovery functions that are critical to responding to a catastrophic event. Lessons learned from the exercise will provide valuable insights to guide future planning for disasters and other emergencies.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by Nephi1337
They have these exercises so they know what to do in the real deal. Every time they have an exercise people come along and invent wild theories with no evidence. Keeps Jones in business I guess. The same people who screamed after Katrina for them not being ready are now upset because they are trying to be ready. How insane is that exactly? It is a bit nutty I think. How do you expect them to practice without practicing?
[iOriginally posted by Nephi1337
reply to post by chancemusky
really ? has Fema ever done this before ? sounds like a big wast of tax payers money to me , like i said why was this not shown in the MSM ?
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by Nephi1337
They have these exercises so they know what to do in the real deal. Every time they have an exercise people come along and invent wild theories with no evidence. Keeps Jones in business I guess. The same people who screamed after Katrina for them not being ready are now upset because they are trying to be ready. How insane is that exactly? It is a bit nutty I think. How do you expect them to practice without practicing?
Originally posted by Violater1
[iOriginally posted by Nephi1337
reply to post by chancemusky
really ? has Fema ever done this before ? sounds like a big wast of tax payers money to me , like i said why was this not shown in the MSM ?
First off, I find your avatar suspect for anti-American sentiment.
Secondly, your signature "FBI" reinforces may assumption that all your trying to do is sensationalize a national drill.
And cast dispersions in order to cause some for of panic or rift.
No star, no flag, no way
Nothing here folks.
Move along.edit on 19-4-2011 by Violater1 because: (no reason given)