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Article: COMMAND TAKES CENTRAL ROLE IN AREA RESPONDER EXERCISE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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LORTON, Va., Nov. 3 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region sees the exercises as vital to being able to fulfill its mission. From the chaos of derelict buildings and a weed-infested campus near a Northern Virginia landfill, order and cohesion must arise.
Lessons must be passed on and new personnel trained in the language of disaster response. Planning moves to execution, logistics and techniques, something old, something new.
"This is where I want to be," Corey Wright declares. "The planning is hard work and takes all year. This," the former District of Columbia youth correctional facility, "is where it comes together."
Wright, a ...