Dangerous Wind
Army Reserve personnel participated in Civil-Military Exercise Operation Dangerous Wind 2001 to help practice response to domestic use of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Operation Dangerous Wind 2001 ran from May 7-17 at the Regional Training Site-Medical, located at Fort Gordon, Ga.
Army Reservists participateed in an exercise designed to provide Weapons of Mass Destruction response training to civil and military authorities and to demonstrate the capabilities of local, state and federal agencies to coordinate emergency response to domestic terrorism.
The scenarios behind the exercise is a simulated terrorist attack using nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. The development of the training exercise was a joint effort of the U.S. Army Reserve Command, Department of Veterans Affairs, U. S. Air Force Reserve Command, Southeast Regional Medical Command, U.S. Public Health Service and other DOD, state and local government participants.
Army Reserve units worked closely with local, state and federal agencies during Operation Dangerous Wind and Consequence Island 2001. These exercises are designed primarily for federal emergency medical response team personnel whose duties encompass a WMD-related emergency. They were also designed to familiarize federal, state and local emergency agencies with the capabilities of the U. S. Army Reserve in support of the federal response to WMD incidents.
The training exercises provide participants with knowledge and skills needed to develop a field medical unit, effective triage, decontamination and medical treatment in both field hospital and fixed medical facilities. These joint federal training exercises evaluate the capability of medical response teams and military units to adequately deploy to disaster events involving weapons of mass destruction and perform emergency medical functions at remote sites.
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