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thedrifter
02-26-09, 07:03 AM
U.S. Navy testing anti-terror zone defense
Published: Feb. 25, 2009 at 2:23 PM

NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy isn't saying much about a nationwide anti-terrorism exercise under way this week other than it is a big one.


Navy Capt. Sam McCormick, director of anti-terrorism at the Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, told the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot that pretty much all of the Navy's North American area of responsibility was involved in the exercise, code-named Operation Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield.

The operation roughly tests the Navy's ability to detect and foil attempts to infiltrate the fleet either via cyberspace or physically. A so-called Red Team will be testing base security in some places, the newspaper said Wednesday.

The large number of sailors and Marines taking part is due to the multilayer nature of the defensive strategy.

"You don't play man to man with this," McCormick told the Virginian-Pilot. "You create multiple overlapping layers of protection."

McCormick added the exercise will be visible mainly in the form of tighter security at base gates and extra lookouts aboard U.S. warships.

Ellie