State Level Full Scale Exercise 2012

April 23rd thru 26th District Task Forces 4, 5 & 6 will be participating in a Full Scale Exercise at Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex. This exercise will test TF4's ability to notify, activate, mobilize, convoy and demobilize the entire task force. Additionally, this exercise will allow our Incident Management Assistance Team to arrive on an unstabilized scene and work the first 12-24 hours of the incident supporting on scene Incident Command.

The Service & Support Element allows the task force to be completely self sufficient for the first 72 hours of any deployment, and the ability to accomplish that, and more, will also take place during the exercise. Meanwhile, the Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical and Fire Suppression Elements will get to "play" at a state of the art training facility on the 24th and 25th, at the least. Those folks also play a role in most other areas of a task force deployment, yet their main role will be what they do every day, yet under different circumstances, working alongside folks they may not work alongside every day, in unfamiliar territory, as they would if deployed with the task force in a real world incident.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get real world training, and a lot of it, in a short period of time. We look forward to furthering our abilities to help the communities we serve, and beyond by participating in this exercise.

About Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex

"People have tried to explain this, but you can't really grasp the capability until you see it first hand, this is big...we are spending millions trying to build this, and you already have it in Indiana."

- Col. (P) Joe E. Rameriz, Deputy Commanding General,
CAC-T, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, 18 Aug, 2006