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Maj. Bruce Dougherty of the 459th Aerial Medical Evacuation Squadron
Maj. Bruce Dougherty of the 459th Aerial Medical Evacuation Squadron at Andrews Air Force Base, Virginia, concentrates on his important work at the medical liaison desk in the Joint Operations Center at the Joint Forces Headquarters-Alaska for exercise Alaska Shield/Northern Edge. Photo by Pvt. 1st Class John Wood, 29th Infantry Division, Virginia National Guard
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Col. John Griffin of the 168th Air Refueling Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard and Lt. Col. James Midyette of the 60th Troop Command Unit of the North Carolina National Guard and Lt. Col. Ted Gload of the National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon discuss aspects of Alaska Shield/Northern Edge. Photo by Pvt. 1st Class John Wood, 29th Infantry Division, Virginia National Guard
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Maj. Kay Spear-Budd of the 176th Wing, Communications Flight of the Alaska Air National Guard and Maj. Donald Briggs of the 281st Command and Control Group of the Rhode Island National Guard work constantly in the JOC during Alaska Shield/Northern Edge. Photo by Pvt. 1st Class John Wood, 29th Infantry Division, Virginia National Guard
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| May 9, 2007
You Can Sleep Uninterrupted …Alaska National Guard Stands up Joint Operations Center
By Sgt. 1st Class Jack Holt
29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard
CAMP DENALI, Alaska –
The Alaska National Guard is in the midst of a crisis, a practice crisis. Emergency response is what they do best because they practice.
More than 200 National Guard Citizen-Soldiers are on duty all across Alaska training in disaster response for the exercise Alaska Shield/Northern Edge 2007.
In the Joint Operations Center (JOC) at the Alaska National Guard Armory Joint Forces Headquarters - Alaska "it's more like a melding of the minds," said Air National Guard Col. John Griffin, commander of the 168th Air Refueling Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard. "The nation is banking on the Guard, and you can sleep uninterrupted."
The JOC is where liaison officers come together in a concerted effort to get help down range to the incident commander. "These folks are professionals," said Alaska Air National Guard Col. Wendy Wenke, the officer in charge of the JOC. "Give them a room, give them a computer and they're off and running."
In preparation for the exercise that is in progress over the next few weeks - in conjunction with other National Guard disaster training exercises occurring simultaneously in Indiana and Rhode Island - some planned changes were rapidly implemented.
"Our old JOC was one-third the size and in another location," Wenke said. "We knew what we had was inadequate in size and proximity to the State Emergency Coordination Center, so we took an old break room, and in 90 days converted it to our Joint Operation Center."
The Alaska Shield/Northern Edge 2007 exercise continues through May 18.
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