NORAD Flight Exercise Planned for Washington, D.C.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region, will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 09-07, on May 15 and 19 between midnight and 6:00 a.m. in the National Capital Region (NCR), Washington, D.C.
The exercise comprises a series of training flights held in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Capital Region Command Center, the Joint Air Defense Operations Center, the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR), Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard and CONR's Western Air Defense Sector.
Exercise Falcon Virgo is designed to hone NORAD's intercept and identification operations, as well as procedural tests of the NCR Visual Warning System. Two Civil Air Patrol Cessna aircraft, two Air Force F-16s and one Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter will participate in the exercise. Residents may see these aircraft approaching and flying in the vicinity of the Washington D.C. area as part of this exercise during the late night and early morning hours from midnight through 6:00 a.m. on May 15th and the 19th .
For more information on the Falcon Virgo exercise, please contact CONR Public Affairs at (850) 283-8080, or the NORAD Public Affairs Office at (719) 554-6889.
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Exercise Falcon Virgo.......
Ties in nicely with Boq's cell phone piece, doesn't it?
You write, "See? They're trainable." I'm tempted to say (trainable), "They are? I mean, yes we are!" But the neat thing, is you're talking about Military exercises, but there was one stand out date.
Date: 9/11/2001
Early in the morning, pre dawn, we had agreed to get together and assemble a new computer system plus rebuild files on a dead external hard drive. We had agreed, we were only going to do part of it. The owner would need to deal with all of the data files. After we set up the hardware, systems and settings for internet connection, the group of us rode our bicycles to the local McDonald's for breakfast. One customer walks in and says, "Did you hear a plane hit the World Trade Center?" Another voice says, "You better make that two big ones." Y'all know the rest of that part of the story. As soon as I walk in the door, the phone is ringing. In less than 10 minutes, I answered 7 phone calls. There is a break for 5 minutes, then another call, "Sir, this is Montreal, we have a problem...." I said, "Ma'am, you have the wrong number, *do not call back!"* A minute later, another call. "Sir, you don't understand, this is an emergency! We have an oil spill in the Chesapeake Bay." I don't say a thing and just hang up. I get another phone call, only this time, it is their supervisor and one of my neighbors. He said, "I'll bet you got some very weird calls." I asked him, "Are you home, if so, STAY THERE, I'm coming right over, in 5 minutes." I was there in less than 4 minutes, the first thing I do when they answer the door is to turn on the TV. He now understood the importance of situational awareness. Over time we became friends.
This incident with me was with the Coast Guard. But I talked with people spread out over this Great Country and found great examples of this same behavior Just think about it, mixing "common sense and the Military." Oh, just forget about it, it would never work, anyway,"