Army and FEMA conduct hurricane training exercise.To improve local, Federal, and military responses to disasters, U.S. Army North, the Federal Emergency Management Agency The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the federal agency responsible for coordinating emergency planning, preparedness, risk reduction, response, and recovery. The agency works closely with state and local governments by funding emergency programs and providing technical , and Texas civil-support-operations personnel conducted a hurricane exercise in June. The participating agencies used this event to evaluate the Brownsville and Houston-Galveston evacuation plans, using a fictional category 4 hurricane as a backdrop for the exercise. U.S. Army North was represented by the six-person Region VI Defense Coordinating Element (DCE (1) (Distributed Computing Environment) Software from The Open Group that allows applications to be built across heterogeneous platforms in a network. DCE includes security, directory naming, time synchronization, file sharing, RPCs and multithreading services. ), which is responsible for supporting Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). , Oklahoma, and Texas. The Texas exercise allowed the team to build relationships with the other agencies. All senior leaders who would be involved in a disaster participated in the exercise. During the exercise, the Region VI DCE practiced integrating aviation, logistics, medical planning, and engineering personnel, deploying to forward locations, and processing requests for assistance. The exercise allowed each of the local, state, Federal, and military agencies to learn about how the other agencies operate and how they could work together to be more effective. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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