[USA] Exercising Your Emergency Operations Plan / Officer.com, 14 January 14 2007
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GLEN KARPOVICH
"Planning and conducting an exercise
You have just spent a large amount of time, effort and money developing your Emergency Operations Plan. Now, how do you know it is going to work when needed? In order to make all of your hard work pay off, you need to validate your plan by testing it. This is referred to as exercising your plan."