091104 Vigilant Guard Exercise

Vigilant Guard is a national exercise program sponsored by the National Guard Bureau and United States Northern Command to provide a training opportunity for National Guard forces for state emergency response and exercise relationships with local, state, regional and federal partners against a variety of different homeland security threats, including natural disasters and terrorist attack.

More than 1,300 National Guard troops from New York and other states are participating this week along with local, state, county and city emergency response units and agencies. It will provide a realistic training opportunity.