Timely Alert II Exercise at the Pentagon.

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"There was a plan in place, but we went from 0 to 60 overnight, so to speak," said Lt. Col. Stephen N. Wood, Garrison commander, here. "By sheer coincidence we were scheduled to conduct "Timely Alert II," a force protection exercise on Sept. 11 and because of that, some of the concrete barriers were already in place."

Wood said people on post told him when they first saw live footage of the events unfolding at the World Trade Center, they thought it was some elaborate training video to accompany the exercise.

Firefighters here said others told them the same thing. "You really outdid yourself this time," a worker said to Captain "Jack" Rindt, training officer for the Fort Monmouth Fire Department. Rindt could only express his sorrow while he acknowledged that indeed, what people were seeing was not a movie, even if it looked like one.

http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/pa/oct01.html

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2. What do you think this means?

Just so you know I lived for many years near Fort Monmouth. I fact I work a few summers on base as a kid and used to go to the movies on base with my Army brat buddies. Shoot, I even played Pop Warner football on their football field.

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3. Another thing

Fort Monmouth is no where near the Pentagon. Why does your title state this exercise was at the Pentagon?

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4. You're right.- "Timely Alert II" was run at Ft. Monmouth

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