34th CERFP trains up for external evaluation - May 21, 2023

Virginia and District of Columbia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen conduct mass casualty response training lanes May 21, 2023, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in preparation for an external evaluation. The Soldiers and Airmen are assigned to the Richmond-based 34th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package, which 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.