ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

National Preparedness Month is recognized each September to promote family and community disaster and emergency planning now and throughout the year.
Week 1: Sept 1-4
Make a Plan 
Week 2: Sept 5-11
Build a Kit 
Week 3: Sept 12-18
Prepare for Disasters 
Week 4: Sept 9-24
Teach Youth About Preparedness

Resources
September 2021 Weekly Themes
Prepare in a Year
https://ready.army.mil
https://www.ready.gov/

ALERT! MASS WARNING AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
Unit Emergency Management Personnel can utilize the Alert! Mass Warning and Notification System by attending a one hour online training, and completing a DD 2875.
Weekly Training on Wednesdays at 1300 EST AND “Off-Cycle” Bi-Weekly Training conducted on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1800 EST

Teleconference Info ☎ (256)336-9287 Passcode: 501# ☎ DSN 502-747-9287 Passcode: 501#
DCS LINK: https://conference.apps.mil/webconf/AlertTraining

For more information contact the Arkansas National Guard Emergency Management Program Coordinator (EMPC) for more information at (501) 212-5491 or George.w.newell.nfg@mail.mil

Operations Security (OPSEC)
OPSEC is a process of identifying critical information and subsequently analyzing friendly actions attendant to military operations and other activities. 

Remember these few tips to help protect yourself and others from the threat of terrorism:
1. Identify those actions that can be observed by adversary intelligence systems.
2. Determine indicators that hostile intelligence systems might obtain that could be interpreted or pieced together to derive critical information in time to be useful to adversaries.
3. Select and execute measures that eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level the vulnerabilities of friendly actions to adversary exploitation. 

Operations Security protects critical information from adversary observation and collection in ways that traditional security programs cannot.

Given the increasing dependence of our national and economic security upon the information infrastructure, it is essential that Army Webmasters review organizational information and content to ensure good OPSEC procedures are being applied. Army Webmasters must develop a disciplined review of all information posted to their locally generated Web sites. This must be done to protect sensitive unclassified and classified information.

The following are OPSEC "Tip off Indicators" that should be removed from Army web sites:

Administrative Information Maintenance
1. Future Official Travel itineraries (units/individuals)
2. Attendance at conferences
3. Commercial Contracts Supply/Equipment orders & deliveries
4. Transportation plans
5. Maps, images, document support
6. Maintenance & logistic requirements
7. Receipt or installation of special equipment

Communication Operations, Plan and Training
1. Spectrum documents
2. Communication/Activity Pattern Changes
3. Internet & E-mail Use personal & business
4. Secure Communication Availability
5. Links with other agencies/units
6. Family support plans
7. Bulletin/Message boards
8. Counter-terrorism information Operational Orders/plans
9. Mission Training
10. Exercise activity/plans
11. Exercise deployment and training schedules
12. Unit movement
13. Inspection Findings & Deficiencies
14. Unit Weaknesses
15. Standard Operating Procedures

Content - Operations Security (OPSEC)
The following are sensitive personal or unit information that should be removed, or modified for compliance:

Personal Unit
1. Biographies
2. Family Support Activities
3. Social Security Account Numbers
4. Phone Directories
5. Names of Army Family members
6. Army Family Addresses
7. Army Family Locations
8. Army Family Phone numbers
9. Travel Information
10. Dates of birth
11. Daily schedules
12. Confidential Medical Records Phone Directories (Including Names)
13. Lists of personnel
14. Unit Recall Rosters
15. Action on reports of Selection Boards
16. Detailed Duty Rosters (Including Names)
17. Detailed Organizational Charts
18. Telephone Directories (Including Names)
19. Temporary duty (TDY) orders
20. Billeting arrangements
21. Leave for large groups or entire units
22. Daily schedules
23. Notice to airmen (NOTAM)
24. Notice to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
25. Electronic Wire Diagrams
26. Frequency Spectrum Data

Army Specific
1. Army Intelligence, counterintelligence, and security information
2. Army operational and tactical information
3. Army Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
4. Army Operational orders and plans
5. Army mission-specific training
6. Identities of Army Undercover Intelligence Officers, Agents, Informants and Sources
7. Army Lessons Learned
8. Army Lessons Learned is often a result of an After Action Review (AAR)
9. An AAR contains specific information

AR-NG CRITICAL INFORMATION LIST, PROTECT THIS INFORMATION:
1. Unit IDT Periods
2. Unit AT Periods
3. Unit and Armory Mission Essential Vulnerable Areas
4. Unit Personnel Information
5. Deployment Information
6. Critical Process of the ARNG
7. Security Routines
8.  IDS and Other Communication Failures
9. Flight Information
10. AR-NG Support to Possible CBRNE Events and Media Coverage
11. Itineraries and Schedules of the Senior Command Group
12. Domestic operations

Antiterrorism AKO

Family Readiness

My Army OneSource

AT Level 1

OPSEC Level 1

NewProfilePic App Raises Potential Security Concerns

Click here for Volume FY21, Issue 01, March 2021

Previous Newsletters:
Click here for Volume FY20, Issue 04, December 2020
Click here for Volume FY20, Issue 03, September 2020 
Click here for Volume FY20, Issue 02, February 2020
Click here for Volume FY20, Issue 01, January 2020

Arkansas National Guard Force Protection
501-212-5469

JFHQ-Force Protection
Camp J.T. Robinson
North Little Rock, AR 72199-9600