Operation Vigilant Guard moving into Terre Haute

[EstimatedProphet]

Just heard about this in a news teaser - anyone know anything more?

[salin]

1. Never heard of it. Name sorta conjours up an image of

the crazy folks who go watch borders (you know, the ones that tried to watch the Canadian border in Vt and kept getting lost in the woods?)

[EstimatedProphet]

2. It does

The news made it sound like a military operation though.

[madhoosier]

3. Military exercise on a 10 kt nuke going off in Indy!!

http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_127235015.html
 
From the article;



TERRE HAUTE — An eight-day military training exercise in which
the state coordinates with local emergency response officials
will begin Thursday and use Terre Haute International
Airport-Hulman Field as a forward operating base.

That means the airport will initially harbor about 1,500
personnel out of an estimated 3,000 people who will
participate in one of the nation’s largest training exercises
for a simulated nuclear explosion. In this simulation, a
10-kiloton nuclear device explodes in Indianapolis.

The training exercise is called “Vigilant Guard,” one part of
a nationwide exercise called Ardent Sentry that will test the
national response plan, said Lt. Col. John R. Newman of the
181st Fighter Wing.

The airport will be the first destination for about 2.6
million pounds of cargo, Newman said.