Frontier Sentinel exercise underway
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Since the September 11th attacks, the government has taken many steps to tighten security for air travel.
But homeland security is not limited to safeguarding the skies, especially in Hampton Roads.
Beginning on June 4 and continuing through June 11, more than 2000 Canadian and U.S. military personnel are conducting an exercise in the Chesapeake Bay designed to safeguard shipping in the area from attacks both on and beneath the surface.
The exercise, called Frontier Sentinel 2010, is designed to bolster maritime security for the port of Hampton Roads. Mission planners say the live exercise has been under development for seven years.
CDR David Givy, Director of Maritime Homeland Defense for the 2nd Fleet, said the exercise will test “our ability to respond to a maritime threat is at the highest level that we’ve had since the 9-11 attacks.”
The scenario being played out in the exercise involves a foreign threat to domestic shipping in local waters.
CDR Rob Green of the Canadian Navy said the exercise simulates a ship “laden with mines coming out of a German port bound for the United States and a terrorist group getting a hold of these mines and placing them in U.S. waters.”
Notice how the drill involves unmanned underwater vehicles similar to the ones that got stolen from….Virginia.
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Its great that we aren’t forgetting about water attacks, which haven’t happened in quite a while.