[MilCom] Joint Military/Civilian Training Exercise Monitoring Results 5/19/07

[Ken]

Soggy, light rainy day today at Westover JARB, MA (KCEF) for the Joint 
Military/Civilian Medical Training Exercise "Team Yankee", held at the "Dog 
Patch" Training area.  My understanding is local TV news WWLP-TV 22, 
http://weather.wwlp.com/2007 will have some news footage this evening on it.

Monitoring much of the day, here's the results:

Aero wise:
118.35  Westover JARB Ground Control
125.35   Bradley Approach/Departure Control
132.65  Boston Air Route Traffic Control
134.85   Westover JARB Tower
274.75   Westover Metro/Weather
275.8  Westover ARB  Ground Control
348.75   Westover JARB Tower
372.2  Westover JARB Base Operations

Tactical & Land Mobile Radio Nets (all were low power w/t's, some mobiles & 
temporary low level base stations)
142.175 Repeater P25/Digital Aerial Port ATOC
148.125 Analog NFM No CTCSS, Simplex  Civil Air Patrol (ground search 
teams?)
148.150 Analog NFM  No CTCSS  Civil Air Patrol  Alternate "Air Boss" 
frequency
245.25   Analog AM  "Air Boss"  (coordinated aircraft arrival/departure & 
parking Pad #19 area)
407.2625  P25/Digital Encrypted Simplex  -- Civilian Disaster Medical 
Assistance Team?
409.075  P25/Digital Encrypted Simplex  --- Civilian Disaster Medical 
Assistance Team?
409.3375 Analog NFM  ---  brief low power transmission Military & Civilian 
Teams?
412.8375 P25/Digital Encrypted Simplex  -- Civilian Disaster Medical 
Assistance Team?
412.8875 P/25/Digital Encrypted Simplex   -- Civilian Disaster Medical 
Assistance Team?
413.4 Analog NFM  Primarily AF personnel but USMC & USN Navy SeeBees have 
used in past exercises for treatment teams, site security & transportation.

A quick look at Grove's "Federal Frequency Directory" 2nd edition, indicates 
that most of those encrypted frequencies are designated for nationwide 
common repeater/simplex operations.

It's very interesting that encryption is being used for a medical type 
exercise.

Aircraft/Helos participating:
GUARD COPTER 16372 (OH58) (1205 hrs local) (didn't monitoring any flying 
throughout the day)
GUARD COPTER 26152 (UH60)  (approx 1205 to 1430 hrs local)
SUMMIT 13 (C130)  (1230 to 1520 hrs local)
HOBBY 29 (C130)  (1344 to 1530 hrs local)  (departed area & didn't stay)

Since a lot of the transmissions were "encrypted", I would assume that 
there's was various mini type training exercises within the "Dog Patch" 
wooded/field area for the various organization/teams that were there for the 
exercise.   (Hopefully, news releases & reports will clarify all of the 
organizations that participated in this exercise).

Aero wise, it appeared that both C130 aircraft would pickup "patients" at 
the Pad #19 area, take off and fly around for a bit and than land & taxi to 
the base hangar area, and than eventually taxi back over to Pad#19.  The UH 
60 helicopter also appeared to basically just fly awary from pad #19, stay 
within the bounds of the airfield & land at a taxiway adjecent to the base 
hanager & than taxi to the base hanager.  The helo would than reposition to 
pad#19.

I'm going to assume that the exercise dealt with field treatment/basic 
stabilization, ground transportation to a field hospital/stablization 
activity for further treatment (both at Dog Patch) , aeromedical evacuation 
(training), & than reception at an Aeromedical staging facility (Base 
Hangar).   I understand the major theme of the exercise involved a major 
Hurricane hitting the state of Conneticut & surrounding areas.

Military units at Westover can be found at: 
http://www.westover.afrc.af.mil/units/
Information on the National Disaster Medical System & various 
treatment/support teams can be found at:  http://www.oep-ndms.dhhs.gov/

Ken