VNG leaders visit 34th CERFP external evaluation train up
Brig. Gen. Catherine Jumper, the VNG Air Component Commander, Col. Dennis Rohler, commander of the 329th Regional Support Group, and other senior leaders visit Virginia and District of Columbia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen conducting mass casualty response training lanes May 22, 2023, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in preparation for an external evaluation. The Soldiers and Airmen assigned to the Richmond-based 34th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package provided consequence management, incident site communications, urban search and rescue, mass causality decontamination, technical decontamination, medical triage and stabilization and fatality management during the mock CBRNE response at the Virginia Beach Fire Training Center that included role players with simulated injuries.
The Army Interagency Training and Education Center conducts the evaluation and oversees the exercise, along with personnel from National Guard Bureau. The 34th CERFP is tested on a variety of major tasks including establishing a response decontamination site, conducting search and extraction operations, conducting ambulatory and non-ambulatory decontamination, conducting casualty collection and medical triage and providing treatment and emergency care for causalities. The EXEVAL is conducted every three years.
Read more about the 34th CERFP at ngpa.us/25366.
(U.S. National Guard photo by Cotton Puryear)
VNG leaders visit 34th CERFP external evaluation train up
Brig. Gen. Catherine Jumper, the VNG Air Component Commander, Col. Dennis Rohler, commander of the 329th Regional Support Group, and other senior leaders visit Virginia and District of Columbia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen conducting mass casualty response training lanes May 22, 2023, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in preparation for an external evaluation. The Soldiers and Airmen assigned to the Richmond-based 34th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package provided consequence management, incident site communications, urban search and rescue, mass causality decontamination, technical decontamination, medical triage and stabilization and fatality management during the mock CBRNE response at the Virginia Beach Fire Training Center that included role players with simulated injuries.
The Army Interagency Training and Education Center conducts the evaluation and oversees the exercise, along with personnel from National Guard Bureau. The 34th CERFP is tested on a variety of major tasks including establishing a response decontamination site, conducting search and extraction operations, conducting ambulatory and non-ambulatory decontamination, conducting casualty collection and medical triage and providing treatment and emergency care for causalities. The EXEVAL is conducted every three years.
Read more about the 34th CERFP at ngpa.us/25366.
(U.S. National Guard photo by Cotton Puryear)