[MilCom] Fw: Pentagon to Hold Training Exercise

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>
> >From: DoD Advisories <dladvisories_sender at DTIC.MIL>
> >Reply-To: dodadvisories-l-request at DTIC.MIL
> >To: DODADVISORIES-L at DTIC.MIL
> >Subject: Pentagon to Hold Training Exercise
> >Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:31:59 -0400
> >
> >PRESS ADVISORY from the United States Department of Defense
> >
> >No. 025-04
> >PRESS ADVISORY May 17, 2004
> >
> >Monday, May 17, 2004
> >
> >
> >             A large-scale chemical, biological, radiological, and
nuclear
> >training
> >exercise will be held at the Pentagon on Wednesday, May 19, 10 a.m.
to 2
> >p.m. EDT.
> >The exercise, called “Gallant Fox II,” will be staged near the
heating and
> >refrigeration plant on the Pentagon Reservation and is open for media
> >coverage.
> >The purpose of this training event is to enable the Pentagon Force
> >Protection
> >Agency (PFPA), and its federal, state, and local training partners to
> >exercise
> >emergency response units in a duty-day, real world scenario.  It will
> >provide
> >valuable training for PFPA to better serve occupants of the Pentagon.
> >
> >
> >
> >             There will not be an evacuation of the Pentagon during
this
> >exercise.
> >Only pre-designated workforce employees will conduct an internal
assembly
> >as part
> >of the exercise.
> >
> >
> >
> >             Media representatives who wish to cover the drill must
be at
> >the
> >Boundary Channel Parking Lot no later than 9:45 a.m.  They also
should have
> >two
> >forms of identification, one of which to show proof of media
affiliation.
> >Parking
> >for broadcast satellite vehicles will be available between 7 a.m. and
9
> >a.m. on
> >Boundary Channel Drive located on the sidewalk between the two large
> >flagpoles.
> >All media vehicles parking in the area of the exercise will be
subject to a
> >security check.  There will be limited media (car or van) parking on
the
> >South
> >Connector Road before 9:45a.m. on May 19.
> >
> >
> >
> >             The Pentagon Metro Station will not shut down during
this
> >exercise;
> >trains and buses will continue to run as scheduled.  The Boundary
Channel
> >Parking
> >Lot will be closed starting at midnight on May 19 until 2:30 p.m.  In
> >addition, the
> >South Parking Connector Road from North of the River Terrace to
Boundary
> >Channel
> >Drive will be closed at 9:45 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on May 19.
> >
> >
> >
> >             Media and the general public should heed signs posted by
the
> >Virginia
> >Department of Transportation and the State Police that an exercise
will be
> >in
> >progress on the Pentagon Reservation.
> >
> >
> >
> >             The media point of contact for this training exercise is
Glenn
> >Flood,
> >(703) 695-6294.  Additional information on the exercise is available
at
> >http://www.dtic.mil/ref/BuildingCircular/PBM/pbm.htm
> >[http://www.dtic.mil/ref/BuildingCircular/PBM/pbm.htm] .
> >   [http://www.dtic.mil/ref/BuildingCircular/PBM/pbm.htm]
> >
> >
> >[Web Version:
> >http://www.defenselink.mil/advisories/2004/pa20040517-0401.html]
> >
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