Navy Hurricane Lant Exercise

[TampaFl]

Navy exersice of Cat 4 hurricane Lant affecting the west coast of Florida If something like this were to ever occur the Tampa Bay area is in trouble. And they also have a Cat 4 hurricane affecting the east coast of Florida from Miami north up the east coast. Thoughts and comments welcomed.

Under Product Support just click on Tropical Cyclones on the left side to access the exersice.

Robert

http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/home1.html

[webke]

Is this exercise a test of how the navy will redeploy it's forces or how to provide public assistance or both. Just curious with all the discussion taking place about FEMA.

[Air Force Met]

Is this exercise a test of how the navy will redeploy it's forces or how to provide public assistance or both. Just curious with all the discussion taking place about FEMA.

It's probably an exercise to deploy forces and possibly the base shut down procedures.

The handling of disaster responses by the military is handled by ARNORTH and Northern Command. The federal exercise for that is still a week away...so this is a local thing. The Navy has little to do with it until they are tasked by the above agencies.

[clfenwi]

Details of the exercise can be found here:

http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/D3 ... RREX06.txt

The purpose of the exercise is to go through the simulate accounting for personnel in the aftermath of a hurricane.

I'm not sure about the active duty side, but I do know the Navy Reserves had a very difficult time accounting for members of their units after Katrina. I heard from the Commanding Officer of a Pensacola unit that it took some units over a month to know the whereabouts of all their people.

[webke]

Thanks for the info.