Va. CERFP Soldiers, Airmen participate in Vigilant Guard exercise - May 13, 2014

Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assigned to the Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear High Yield Explosive Response Force Package participate May 13, 2014, in Vigilant Guard, a multi-agency emergency-preparedness exercise hosted by the Pennsylvania National Guard at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. Vigilant Guard 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. The three-day exercise also tests 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 causality 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.

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