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The Following is taken from www.northcom.mil and explains NORTHCOM security levels in there own words.
USNORTHCOM sets force protection level for military installations
By Sgt. 1st Class Gail Braymen
NORAD and USNORTHCOM Public Affairs
July 3, 2007
PETERSON
AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta. Those
are the four levels of force protection applied to every American
military installation, with Alpha being the lowest level and Delta
being the highest. And it's the commander of U.S. Northern Command who
determines what the minimum force protection level will be for every
American installation in the continental United States.
"Eighty-five
percent of the installations in the armed forces, in the Department of
Defense, exist within the NORTHCOM area of responsibility," said Army
Col. Jim Brown, chief of USNORTHCOM's force protection and mission
assurance division.
USNORTHCOM sets
the force protection condition level for so many installations because
it is the unified combatant command whose geographic area of
responsibility is North America. Other combatant commands, such as U.S.
European Command and U.S. Southern Command, set the force protection
condition levels for American military installations in their areas of
responsibility.
Individual facility
and installation commanders may increase their local force protection
levels as they feel is necessary, Brown said, but they must adhere to
at least the minimum level prescribed by USNORTHCOM.
"Most
of our facilities in the United States are at Alpha right now, several
are at Bravo, and a couple are at Charlie," Brown said.
Force
protection can include procedures as basic as checking identification
cards at the entrance to an installation and requiring credentials to
get inside a building. However, when necessary, force protection
procedures can become as stringent as inspecting every vehicle, person
and bag entering an installation.
"It's
layered. It's well-thought-out. It's well-resourced. And it's there,"
Brown said. "But the question is: where should it go? How should we
improve our force protection?"
The
constant challenges to maintaining effective force protection, Brown
said, are understanding potential threats and avoiding routines and
standard procedures that can be exploited.
"It's
important always to ask the question: what should I change? How should
this system of force protection that we've put in place evolve so that
it moves ahead of the possible plans of people who would do us harm?"
Although
USNORTHCOM sets the minimum force protection level, the command does
not tell individual commanders specifically how to protect their
installations and facilities.
"We do
not like to, what I term, pick up a 1,000-mile-long screwdriver and
turn it in the front gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base," Brown said.
Vandenberg Air Force Base and all other military installations have
commanders with oversight of their facilities. "And we are here to
facilitate them, and to assist them, and to give them guidance that
makes protecting (their base or facility) easier."
USNORTHCOM
is the unified combatant command responsible for defending the homeland
and providing defense support of civil authorities. Its subordinate
commands are Joint Forces Headquarters National Capital Region, Joint
Task Force Alaska, Joint Task Force Civil Support, Joint Task Force
North and Standing Joint Force Headquarters North.
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