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- [Voiceover] Over 500 North Carolina guardsmen,

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and local, state and federal

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civilian emergency response partners

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are getting hands on training during the operation

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Vigilant Seahawk exercise.

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Taking place at ports in Eastern North Carolina

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over a two week period.

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Melissa Green, Area 3 coordinator with the North Carolina

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Emergency Management, explains how this training exercise

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helps the different agencies during real world events.

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- They can exercise before the event happens

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before the incident happens,

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so they kind of know what they are expecting

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and they know what each others policies and procedures are.

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They know how to get the extra resources

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that they would need.

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It just gives them the ability to be able to understand

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what they are going into prior going into

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regardless of what the event is.

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- [Voiceover] The exercise involved, a simulated hurricane.

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A reality the state has experienced many times.

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It also involves providing site security

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and protecting critical infrastructure during

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a domestic disturbance.

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Although the protesters were actually military police

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merely role playing, it felt very real.

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(loud commotion)

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- Overall everything is going great

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we had a good plan,

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we had a good planning team

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that put the overall operation together

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and as result we've had good execution.

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In every training exercise we see things we can improve on

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because that's the point of training

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is to improve so that every time we go out

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we are a little bit better,

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and I think these MP's and the MP's down in Wilmington

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and down in Motsu,

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they are responsive, they are reliable

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and they are ready to do their job.

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- [Voiceover] This event was to train military

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and emergency response personnel,

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but local citizens also have a role in keeping the

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state and nation safe.

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- If you see something, say something.

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Let your local law enforcement know

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anything suspicious or out of the ordinary

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because what you might see as little or minute

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maybe just very important to someone else up the chain

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with that information.

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- [Voiceover] Reporting from Wilmington, North Carolina,

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I'm Air Force Sergeant, Pamela Robins.