by BECKY GOFF
Little Apple Post
FORT RILEY - On Friday, April 19th, Fort Riley will participate in a Black Start Exercise, as mandated by Congress.
The Black Start Exercise is part of a Department of Defense services test of the installation's emergency and standby energy generating systems, and to test the ability to operate without power in an emergency.
The Black Start Exercise will begin at 4:00 a.m. with a planned installation wide power outage to test the back-up systems and could last up to nine hours.
Here is the proposed schedule for the Black Start Exercise:
Soldiers, civilians and contractors on Fort Riley will work together for this exercise and will be evaluated by U.S. Army Installation Management Command and United States Army Corps of Engineers.
For more details, visit home.army.mil/riley/about/Black-Start-Exercise.