JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, AK - The exercise included a mock plane crash in the North Slope Borough due to a cyber-attack. Upon request for support from the state, 36 Guardsmen from Headquarters and Headquarters Company; B Company, 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment; and A Troop, all with the 297th BFSB, responded by providing transportation, security, shelter and medical support to the simulated plane crash carrying 61 passengers in the vicinity of Barrow.

Simultaneously, the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management's State Emergency Operation Center was stood up, housing personnel from numerous agencies in a central location to consolidate and streamline interagency coordination for the response. The National Guard also stood up a Joint Operations Center to respond to requests for and coordination of Air and Army Guard.

Reports later began filtering to participating organizations about an active shooter at a high school in Cordova. Guardsmen with Headquarters and Headquarters Co., and 1-297th Reconnaissance and Surveillance Squadron's Head Quarters and Head Quarters Troop and C Company, all with the 297th BFSB, provided communications and assisted with post shooting mortuary affairs.

The city of Palmer was notionally evacuated in response to a simulated hazmat incident of a bus carrying 13,000 gallons of fuming liquid sulfuric acid at the Palmer fairgrounds. Alaska Guardsmen with the 38th Troop Command launched into action. The 103rd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team provided HAZMAT response to include survey, decontamination and communications. The 297th Military Police Company assisted local law enforcement by providing security at the point of distribution, the local hospital and a temporary shelter. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation, were used to provide notional casualty evacuation support. Medical personnel from civilian and government agencies worked to help sustain simulated casualties. Approximately 20 members of the Alaska State Defense Force provided assistance with casualty evacuation and medical support.

During the exercise, members of the Mongolian Ministry of Defense and Mongolian National Emergency Management Agency observed the DMVA's participation with visits to Anchorage and the Matanuska Susitna Valley.

Several other communities throughout the state practiced a variety of emergency scenarios including Craig, Fairbanks, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Ketchikan, Kodiak, North Pole, Sitka and Valdez.