VDF training focuses on individual skills
More than 125 members of the Virginia Defense Force take part in training to improve their individual skills in the areas of interoperable communications, incident management, traffic control and chaplain support April 2, 2016, at Fort Pickett, Virginia. Communications support, operations center augmentation and security assistance are some of the many different missions sets the VDF provides as the all-volunteer auxiliary to the Virginia National Guard. Those mission sets take advantage of the wide variety of public safety, military and civilian skills that VDF members provide. The VDF is an all-volunteer force authorized by the Code of Virginia and organized under the Virginia Department of Military Affairs reporting to the Adjutant General of Virginia. The members of the VDF volunteer their time for training and are only paid when called to state active duty by an authorization from the Governor of Virginia. Learn more about the VDF at go.usa.gov/ceETw. (Photo by Lt. Col. (Va.) Cotton Puryear, Virginia Defense Force Public Information Detachment)
VDF training focuses on individual skills
More than 125 members of the Virginia Defense Force take part in training to improve their individual skills in the areas of interoperable communications, incident management, traffic control and chaplain support April 2, 2016, at Fort Pickett, Virginia. Communications support, operations center augmentation and security assistance are some of the many different missions sets the VDF provides as the all-volunteer auxiliary to the Virginia National Guard. Those mission sets take advantage of the wide variety of public safety, military and civilian skills that VDF members provide. The VDF is an all-volunteer force authorized by the Code of Virginia and organized under the Virginia Department of Military Affairs reporting to the Adjutant General of Virginia. The members of the VDF volunteer their time for training and are only paid when called to state active duty by an authorization from the Governor of Virginia. Learn more about the VDF at go.usa.gov/ceETw. (Photo by Lt. Col. (Va.) Cotton Puryear, Virginia Defense Force Public Information Detachment)