Guam to Conduct WMD Response Training Exercise

Emergency personnel in Guam are scheduled to participate in a full-scale training exercise tomorrow on responding to attacks involving weapons of mass destruction, Pacific Daily News reported (see GSN, Nov. 23).

The federally funded exercise is the first such drill since training began last December, said Lt. Eric Fisher of the Guam Police Department and training/exercise coordinator with Guam Homeland Security.

“This office has put together a very robust training program in which our main goal is to first identify all the training needs of our emergency responders,” Fisher said. “Since December, we’ve had trainings on Guam for about every two weeks. Guam was recognized (by the Office for Domestic Preparedness) as having the most robust training program in the nation” (Gene Park, Pacific Daily News, Dec. 8).

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