SECURITY
August is Antiterrorism Awareness Month
Alex Dixon
WASHINGTON -- In 2007, six men were arrested for their plot to infiltrate the installation and attack Soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J. Maj. Gen. David Quantock, provost marshal general of the Army, said because of the vigilance and awareness arising from the attacks Sept. 11, 2001, that plot was foiled. The Army’s AntiTerrorism Awareness Month begins Aug. 1, but Quantock said civilians and Soldiers must remain in a constant state of vigilance year-round. “Terrorists, at the end of the day, are looking for soft targets,” Quantock said. “If we create vigilance and have people who take part in this and report it, we’re going to take soft targets and make them all hard targets.” Quantock said programs like iWatch Army and eGuardian are ways that terrorism awareness can be raised. iWatch Army operates like a neighborhood watch, Quantock said. Soldiers report any suspicious activity or behavior to local law enforcement or military police for investigation. Quantock said eGuardian is a reporting system designed to collect information about terrorist threats and suspicious activity. The system allows that information to be shared across the DOD, the FBI, and other agencies. The main focus of anti-terrorism is on external threats, Quantock said. But he cited the Boston Marathon as an ism is what you may have prevented and not even known about it,” Quantock said. “We have come a long way since 9/11 and the interaction between the FBI, between local, state and federal law enforcement entities is unprecedented. We continue to make great strides in that effort.” Quantock compared law enforcement to the sharp end of a spear, saying that it’s up to Soldiers and civilians to report to law enforcement anything out-of-thenorm so they can take action from there. “They’ve got to have all those eyes out there, seeing something and saying something,” Quantock said. “A lot of people see something, but the courageous step is to do something once you see it.” Some examples of suspicious activity include illegally parked cars and people wearing heavy clothing in warm temperatures, Quantock said. He said the goal is not to create a paranoid society, but one that pays attention to something that looks out of place. “All you have to do is look around the world and realize we’re in a different time, where there is a threat out there that could come from multiple directions,” Quantock said. “We’ve got to have all those 300 million American citizens around here, eyes and ears, paying attention to what’s going on.” When Soldiers and civilians see something wrong or out of the ordinary, he said, the next step is to convey that to those who can investigate further. March 2013
Construction kicked off on the F-35 training facility on Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. The facility will accommodate training on the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, which will replace the Air Force’s aging fleet of aircraft by 2014. (Video still by Tech. Sgt. Fernando X. Burgos-Ortiz)
District leads construction efforts for F-35 training facility at Luke AFB
more than 145,000 square feet in size and is expected to be ready for training by August 2014. It will be a brand new addition to Luke, but not all construction will start from the LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- Once just plans on ground up. paper, the F-35 training facilities at Luke Air Force Base are “As some of the F-16 squadrons begin to make their way quickly becoming a reality. to Holloman Air Force Base we will be able to begin modifyThe Air Force announced just less than a year ago that ing those existing buildings to accommodate additional F-35 Luke would be the training site for the new F-35 Lightning squadrons,” Fredrick said. II, a fifth generation fighter jet that will eventually phase The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plays a vital role in exeout the service’s F-16s and A-10s. The first F-35 is expected to cuting part of the construction at Luke, said Daniel Calderon, arrive at Luke in early 2014. The recent announcement that Luke will receive another U.S. Army Corps of Engineers public affairs specialist. ??q]??e?????????????????????????????????????????????t??????e??????????????????????????????????????????????????q]??e?????????????????????????????????1??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????e?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????t?
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