http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012190/posts
Article on Bomber’s ‘All Star Defense Team’
Thanks Obama....(eye roll)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/us-usa-explosions-boston-scenarios-idUSBRE93N1F620130424
Boston Marathon, where two bombs went off killing three people and wounding 264, included preparation for such an emergency, a top Massachusetts public safety official said on Wednesday.
“We spend months planning for the marathon. We did a tabletop exercise the week before that included a bombing scenario in it,” Kurt Schwartz, the state’s undersecretary for homeland security, told a panel at Harvard University.
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http://www.ready.gov/business/testing/exercises
There are different types of exercises that can be used to evaluate program plans, procedures and capabilities.
Walkthroughs, workshops or orientation seminars
Tabletop exercises
Functional exercises
Full-scale exercises
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Tabletop exercises are discussion-based sessions where team members meet in an informal, classroom setting to discuss their roles during an emergency and their responses to a particular emergency situation. A facilitator guides participants through a discussion of one or more scenarios. The duration of a tabletop exercise depends on the audience, the topic being exercised and the exercise objectives. Many tabletop exercises can be conducted in a few hours, so they are cost-effective tools to validate plans and capabilities.
Communications-Specific Tabletop Exercise Methodology