Tennessee Maneuvers 2016 begin this week

This week the Tennessee Military Department, Tullahoma and surrounding counties will once again be experiencing the Ice Storm of 1998.
In an effort to improve communication and coordination between local and state agencies, the Tennessee Military Department including the Tennessee Army National Guard, the Tennessee Air National Guard, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) and the Tennessee State Guard – will conduct a series of maneuvers across the state, the likes of which have not been seen since World War II.
Rather than preparing to fight a war, though, the department will be conducting one of the largest statewide disaster preparedness exercises in its history, including more than 50 Army and Air National Guard units that will be training alongside fire departments, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, paramedics and a host of other emergency organizations.
Called “Tennessee Maneuvers 2016,” the exercise will be highly visible throughout Middle Tennessee this summer, with the first exercises beginning around Tullahoma on May 13.
Following the May event in Coffee County, the next major exercise window will see missions of escalating difficulty across the state.