 Ardent Sentry 17 was a command post exercise with staff operating from a primary command post at the 42nd Infantry Division headquarters in Troy, and a redundancy command post at the New York National Guard Joint Force Headquarters in Latham.It was overseen by GEN Timothy LaBarge of the New York National Guard who was given "dual status command", or authority to command both State of New York and United States military forces.Meanwhile, Canada conducted an overlapping exercise, Staunch Maple 17, whose scenario involved simultaneous "nuclear threats" in Ottawa and Halifax, and which also involved the friendly intervention of U.S. military forces into eastern Canada.