Special Va. Guard response force prepares for evaluation
More than 180 Virginia Army and Air Guard personnel from a special response force of the Virginia National Guard conduct final training and preparations for an external evaluation exercise April 25, 2013, at the Virginia Beach Fire Training Center in Virginia Beach. The special response force is the Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Response Force Package, known as the CERFP (pronounced “surf-p”), and it can conduct tasks associated with incident management, urban search and rescue, mass causality decontamination, technical decontamination, medical triage and treatment and fatality search and recovery. The force is made up of Soldiers and Airmen from units based in Petersburg, West Point, Rocky Mount, Danville, Virginia Beach The final exercise will validate response capabilities and improve operations for the response force and is scheduled to take place April 27, 2013. Role players simulating causalities took part in the final training to add more realistic conditions and will be included in the final evaluation exercise. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Special Va. Guard response force prepares for evaluation
More than 180 Virginia Army and Air Guard personnel from a special response force of the Virginia National Guard conduct final training and preparations for an external evaluation exercise April 25, 2013, at the Virginia Beach Fire Training Center in Virginia Beach. The special response force is the Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Response Force Package, known as the CERFP (pronounced “surf-p”), and it can conduct tasks associated with incident management, urban search and rescue, mass causality decontamination, technical decontamination, medical triage and treatment and fatality search and recovery. The force is made up of Soldiers and Airmen from units based in Petersburg, West Point, Rocky Mount, Danville, Virginia Beach The final exercise will validate response capabilities and improve operations for the response force and is scheduled to take place April 27, 2013. Role players simulating causalities took part in the final training to add more realistic conditions and will be included in the final evaluation exercise. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)