Coast Guard to participate in Securing the Cities Exercise

Coast Guard to participate in Securing the Cities Exercise
NEW YORK – The Coast Guard is advising mariners of a joint-agency anti-terrorism exercise scheduled to take place in the waters of New York Harbor Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Vessel radio traffic during the exercise will be preceded by the words “This is a drill, this is a drill.” Mariners and others who hear what may sound like radio transmissions about a terrorism-related...

Coast Guard announces joint-agency exercise in New York Harbor

NEW YORK – The Coast Guard is advising mariners of a joint-agency anti-terrorism exercise scheduled to take place in the waters throughout New York Harbor April 7, 2011, between 12 noon and 4 p.m. Vessel radio traffic during the exercise will be preceded by the words “This is a drill, this is a drill.” The Coast Guard is participating in the maritime portion of the tri-state exercise,...