Va. and D. C. Soldiers, Airmen in process for response exercise
National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from Virginia and Washington, D. C. assigned to the Virginia National Guard’s Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Response Force Package conduct in processing activities May 12, 2014, at the Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center in Lancaster, Pa., in preparation for Vigilant Guard, a multi-agency emergency-preparedness exercise hosted by the Pennsylvania National Guard. The exercise is hosted quarterly by U. S. Northern Command and is not being held in response to any specific threat. It is designed to evaluate and enhance the integration of local, state and federal responders under one command structure, and it will also test the ability of different agencies to provide continuity of services for an extended period of time. The CERFP can conduct tasks associated with incident management, urban search and rescue, mass casualty decontamination, technical decontamination, medical triage and treatment and fatality search and recovery. The force is made up of Soldiers and Airmen from Virginia Guard units based in Petersburg, West Point, Rocky Mount, Danville, Virginia Beach and Langley Air Force Base, as well as personnel from the Washington D. C. Air National Guard. Soldiers from the Sandston-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment flew the advance party for the CERFP from several locations in Virginia to the Lancaster Airport. Read more: go.usa.gov/8C73 #vg2014 (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Va. and D. C. Soldiers, Airmen in process for response exercise
National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from Virginia and Washington, D. C. assigned to the Virginia National Guard’s Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Response Force Package conduct in processing activities May 12, 2014, at the Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center in Lancaster, Pa., in preparation for Vigilant Guard, a multi-agency emergency-preparedness exercise hosted by the Pennsylvania National Guard. The exercise is hosted quarterly by U. S. Northern Command and is not being held in response to any specific threat. It is designed to evaluate and enhance the integration of local, state and federal responders under one command structure, and it will also test the ability of different agencies to provide continuity of services for an extended period of time. The CERFP can conduct tasks associated with incident management, urban search and rescue, mass casualty decontamination, technical decontamination, medical triage and treatment and fatality search and recovery. The force is made up of Soldiers and Airmen from Virginia Guard units based in Petersburg, West Point, Rocky Mount, Danville, Virginia Beach and Langley Air Force Base, as well as personnel from the Washington D. C. Air National Guard. Soldiers from the Sandston-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment flew the advance party for the CERFP from several locations in Virginia to the Lancaster Airport. Read more: go.usa.gov/8C73 #vg2014 (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)