Special Virginia Guard response forces train with agency partners in Hampton Roads exercise - May 19, 2011

Soldiers and Airmen from the Virginia National Guard's Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Emergency Response Force Package, or CERFP, conduct search and rescue, mass decontamination, medical triage and treatment and fatality search and recovery operations May 19 at Harbor Park in Norfolk, Va., during the Hampton Roads Full Scale Exercise. The HRFSE is being held May 17-19 to provide the Commonwealth of Virginia the opportunity to strengthen its anti-terrorism capabilities as well as test local, state and federal response efforts in maritime, hostage and mass casualty scenarios. The CERFP is made up of approximately 250 Soldiers and Airmen from units based in Petersburg, West Point, Rocky Mount and Langley Air Force Base as well as the D.C. National Guard.