Over 30 organizations have joined together for one exercise at the Combat Readiness Center, Gulfport, Mississippi, from April 3-6, 2017. Exercise Marlinspike II is an interagency training designed for a unified response to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats.
The exercise was hosted by Mississippi Army National Guard’s 47th Civil Support Team (CST) based in Flowood, Mississippi. Exercise Marlinspike was done in April of 2015 with numerous organizations participating. Exercise Marlinspike II attracted even more civil agencies to join for the WMD training.
The CST’s job is be the primary link between the military and the local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. They respond to emergencies, deployment of weapons of mass destruction, …show more content…
When the FBI arrives on scene, they rendezvous with DHS surveillance squad. The DHS team relays that there are multiple enemy personnel at warehouse and one enemy personnel at the docks.
SWAT begins the mission by eliminating the target at the dock, causing it to fall into the water. Gulfport Police Dive Team is called to recovery the remains. Next, SWAT invades the warehouse capturing or neutralized all members of the cell but one, which ran into the wood line.
During the infiltration, the FBI found more CBRN agents on site. They call an Air Force CBRN crew, since the Army team is still working with the material from the vessel.
While SWAT is widening the perimeter around the warehouse, they discover a second device on a railcar. SWAT contacts Biloxi Police Department EOD to come defuse the device.
Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) Special Response Team (SRT) arrives on the scene to assist SWAT with its search. MDWFP SRT specializes in tracking people through natural environments. The SRT’s drone and the Air forces live feed make catching the runner easy for the SWAT …show more content…
The training serves as a confidence builder for your own squad, said Bobe. It allows the group to build confidence working with new agencies, which strengths our joint teams.
“This brings us together in a training environment,” said Bullock. We really get to know each other and feel free to try new things, make mistakes, and learn our weakness.”
“We learn each other’s strengths and weakness and by doing that we can fill the gaps,” said Bullock. “If that agency needs help in another area we know that”
The training and experience everyone receive here is for any natural disaster or WMD event, said Bullock. It will be the same organizations coming to provide aid on the coast whether it is a hurricane or nuclear detonation.
Exercise Marlinspike II has allowed us to build relationships with multiple local, state, and federal agencies, said Luke. The better the relationship the more know how to help that particular agency and protect the citizens of Mississippi. CST plans to do plenty more interagency training exercise in the future to stay prepared for the protection of the citizens of
The exercise was hosted by Mississippi Army National Guard’s 47th Civil Support Team (CST) based in Flowood, Mississippi. Exercise Marlinspike was done in April of 2015 with numerous organizations participating. Exercise Marlinspike II attracted even more civil agencies to join for the WMD training.
The CST’s job is be the primary link between the military and the local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. They respond to emergencies, deployment of weapons of mass destruction, …show more content…
When the FBI arrives on scene, they rendezvous with DHS surveillance squad. The DHS team relays that there are multiple enemy personnel at warehouse and one enemy personnel at the docks.
SWAT begins the mission by eliminating the target at the dock, causing it to fall into the water. Gulfport Police Dive Team is called to recovery the remains. Next, SWAT invades the warehouse capturing or neutralized all members of the cell but one, which ran into the wood line.
During the infiltration, the FBI found more CBRN agents on site. They call an Air Force CBRN crew, since the Army team is still working with the material from the vessel.
While SWAT is widening the perimeter around the warehouse, they discover a second device on a railcar. SWAT contacts Biloxi Police Department EOD to come defuse the device.
Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) Special Response Team (SRT) arrives on the scene to assist SWAT with its search. MDWFP SRT specializes in tracking people through natural environments. The SRT’s drone and the Air forces live feed make catching the runner easy for the SWAT …show more content…
The training serves as a confidence builder for your own squad, said Bobe. It allows the group to build confidence working with new agencies, which strengths our joint teams.
“This brings us together in a training environment,” said Bullock. We really get to know each other and feel free to try new things, make mistakes, and learn our weakness.”
“We learn each other’s strengths and weakness and by doing that we can fill the gaps,” said Bullock. “If that agency needs help in another area we know that”
The training and experience everyone receive here is for any natural disaster or WMD event, said Bullock. It will be the same organizations coming to provide aid on the coast whether it is a hurricane or nuclear detonation.
Exercise Marlinspike II has allowed us to build relationships with multiple local, state, and federal agencies, said Luke. The better the relationship the more know how to help that particular agency and protect the citizens of Mississippi. CST plans to do plenty more interagency training exercise in the future to stay prepared for the protection of the citizens of