Homeland Security Exercises Overview
Explore the different types of exercises conducted by the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security, ranging from simple index card exercises to complex full-scale simulations involving multiple agencies. Understand the importance of seminars, workshops, tabletops, games, drills, and functional and full-scale exercises in testing and enhancing emergency response capabilities.
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EXERCISES EXERCISES Mississippi Office of Homeland Security
Simple to Complex Simple to Complex Simple: Index Card Exercise: Test individual knowledge of a given scenario.
Complex Complex Full-Scale Exercise: Everyone Participates, law enforcement, Fire , EMS/Hospitals, Life Flight. You physically do every aspect of a real response. These you build up to.
Types of Exercises ( Your building blocks) Types of Exercises ( Your building blocks) Seminars: Gain awareness of interagency capabilities. Community based. Learning what each other provide. Workshops: Plan Development. Building the foundation of your plan. Tabletops: Identify GAPS. Show if the plan works. Games: Simulation that promotes critical thinking. Helps staff work through problems of task they may be asked to perform. Drills: Operations bases to validate an operation or function. Aids in testing basic functions, such as lockdowns/evacuations/fire drills. Functional: Realistic capabilities evaluation. Test on a particular function, LE response, Wounded Evacuation or Reunification set-up Full Scale: Complex real time operational based test of capabilities, resources and multi-agency involvement. TEST everything as if was real-world.
