[Scan-DC] Fwd: [MilRadioComms] NORAD exercise planned for Washington, D.C.

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TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – The North American Aerospace Defense  
Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD  
Region, will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 15-04 Wednesday night through Friday  
morning, in the National Capital Region, Washington, D.C.

Flights are  scheduled to take place between midnight and 5:30 a.m. (EST) 
each day.

In  the event of inclement weather, the exercise will take place the 
following  evening. If bad weather continues, officials will then make a decision 
to  postpone or cancel the exercise.

The exercise is comprised of a series of  training flights held in 
coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration,  the National Capital Region 
Coordination Center, the Joint Air Defense  Operations Center, Civil Air 
Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard and CONR’s Eastern and  Western Air Defense Sectors.

Exercise Falcon Virgo is designed to hone  NORAD’s intercept and 
identification operations as well as operationally test  the NCR Visual Warning System 
and training personnel at the JADOC. Civil Air  Patrol aircraft and a U.S. 
Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter will participate  in the exercise.

These exercises are carefully planned and closely  controlled to ensure CONR
’s rapid response capability. NORAD has conducted  exercise flights of this 
nature throughout the U.S. and Canada since the start  of Operation Noble 
Eagle, the command’s response to the terrorist attacks on  Sept. 11, 2001.

As the continental United States (CONUS) geographical  component of the 
bi-national command NORAD, CONR provides airspace surveillance  and control, 
and directs air sovereignty activities for the CONUS region. CONR  and its 
assigned Air Force and Army assets throughout the country ensure air  safety 
and security against potential air threats.

Since Sept. 11, 2001,  CONR fighters have responded to more than 5,000 
possible air threats in the  United States and have flown more than 62,500 
sorties with the support of  Airborne Warning and Control System and air
-to-air-refueling  aircraft.



For more information on Falcon Virgo exercises, please  contact CONR Public 
Affairs at (850) 283-8080, or the NORAD Public Affairs  Office at (719) 
554-6889.
 

 
AL STERN  Satellite Beach  FL
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