USNA During 9/11

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Curious if there are books or any links to articles written on what happened at USNA during 9/11.
Pretty sure Covid ain't got nothin on the stressors and uncertainty during that time.
 
Military bases have standard THREATCON protocols they execute when there has been an active attack. As with other bases around the nation and the world, the Yard went to a lockdown mode, essential personnel only. In the big picture of things, USNA is a schoolhouse command, though a highly visible one, not an operational base with combatant ships and aircraft, or deployable units. Eventually it stepped back down to a lower THREATCON and resumed normal operations. Fairly quickly after that and in the year that followed, significant hardening was done to all military base gates and security procedures. Other incidents over the years have caused similar responses, such as the Marine Barracks bombing, the USS COLE attack, etc. Those types of events and responses are planned for.

COVID-19 has broken nearly all the usual patterns at USNA, a place used to fairly predictable schedules and rhythms, and has delivered a sustained tempo of unique stressors. No playbook for something like this!

USNA came together as a community to mourn grads who were killed.
 
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Capt MJ said:
Military bases have standard THREATCON protocols they execute when there has been an active attack. As with other bases around the nation and the world, the Yard went to a lockdown mode, essential personnel only. In the big picture of things, USNA is a schoolhouse command, though a highly visible one, not an operational base with combatant ships and aircraft, or deployable units. Eventually it stepped back down to a lower THREATCON and resumed normal operations. Fairly quickly after that and in the year that followed, significant hardening was done to all military base gates and security procedures. Other incidents over the years have caused similar responses, such as the Marine Barracks bombing, the USS COLE attack, etc. Those types of events and responses are planned for.

COVID-19 has broken nearly all the usual patterns at USNA, a place used to fairly predictable schedules and rhythms, and has delivered a sustained tempo of unique stressors. No playbook for something like this!

USNA came together as a community to mourn grads who were killed.
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Reading your response definitely educated me. Logistically it would certainly make more sense that the USN would be more prepared for a 9/11 situation over the fluid and often arbitrary decisions regarding Covid. I was comparing the two all wrong in that sense. 9/11=Big Thing, Covid=Small Thing which as you said, USNA has no playbook. In my initial post I was referring to the Plebes perspective during that time. I would think 2 weeks ROM would seem like a much less stressful situation compared to being at the Academy such a short time and then the events of 9/11 smacking you in the face. Hence my "ain't got nothin" comment.
Thanks for the information and link
 
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Yes. Covid is a small thing, but it is an active hot object. Like highly unstable radioactive decaying material, if enough of the Covid comes together via a carrier (metaphorically), it sets off a chain reaction and a big explosion.

ROM is like control rods (slows neutrons down) in a nuclear reactor. The objects decay to a point where they are nearly depleted and ineffective.
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