CAMP MARMAL, Afghanistan – A C-5M Super Galaxy from the 436th Airlift Wing based at Dover Air Force Base Del. is pushed into position for an early morning refueling at Camp Marmal in Northern Afghanistan Jan. 26, 2013. The Airmen of the 436 AW are conducting the first deployed C-5M multimodal contingency operation in support of U.S. Transportation Command requirements. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)

"Winter Contingency has been declared, all units are mobolized and ready."

-UNSC Officer

I've taken a break from the A.D.U. series when I unexpectedly found some Lego Brickforge Halo armor and helmets. I used the Star Wars Death Watch Mandalorian Torso's and the abundant blue legs and arms switched out with black hands and black hip/leg connecter pieces. The coolest thing was finding my semi-old lego Grunt I made last summer so I posed him at the bottom left of the screen.

I've never actually played any of the Halo games but I love the idea and concept of it so I can't help but try to realistically make some sets based on what I know about the game series. I designed this to look like Reach since this scene is supposed to take place during the Fall of Reach right at the beginning when the Covenant launched their beachhead assault in the "Viery Territory" so tell me what you think!

LADOT - Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Special Traffic Operations, Transportation and Traffic Management Plan and Program Contingency Engineers during the operation of the Ciclavia Meets The East, Central and West Hollywoods Open Streets for the People Powered Bikes and Pedestrians with Non-Motorized Vehicular Traffic followed by Fountain Avenue is a crossing point for automobiles and bikes to cross traffic for automobiles intersection traffic signal red yellow green lights, pedestrian crosswalk crossing don’t walk orange hand lights and white walking lights, flashing red lights at Lexington Avenue and right turn into State Highway Junction Route CA-2 Santa Monica Blvd. intersections traffic signal green yellow red lights, left turn protected permissive green yellow arrow lights, pedestrian crosswalk crossing white walking lights and don’t walk orange hand lights located at Hollywood area in Los Angeles, California 90028.

This is the continuous Ciclavia Meets The Hollywoods between East and West Hollywood Bike Route.

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This is the dip vat used to treat Mexican cattle for cattle fever ticks to prevent their spread into the U.S. at the newly built U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Douglas, AZ on Sep. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.

Transportation and Traffic Management Plan and Program Contingency Engineers during the operation of the Hollywood - Los Angeles Pride for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Parade Route followed by Do Not Block Intersection signages at Whitley Avenue, Cherokee Avenue, Las Palmas Avenue, McCadden Place and State Highway Junction Route CA-170 Highland Avenue, Metro Red Line Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Avenue Underground Heavy Rail Subway Station Pedestrian Crosswalk Crossing Mid-Block traffic signal go straight green arrow lights, Orange Drive, Sycamore Avenue and La Brea Avenue intersections traffic signal green yellow red lights, left turn permissive and protected green yellow red arrow lights, pedestrian crosswalk crossing white walking lights and don't walk orange hand lights located at Hollywood in Los Angeles, California 90028.

This is the continuous Los Angeles Marathon Stadium to the Sea Route mile number 11.3 (km 18.18) water station drinking booth area and LA Pride LGBT Parade Route Mile 0.08 - km 0.13 located at Cahuenga Blvd.

(Los Angeles Police Department Hollywood Division Patrol Station Number 6, LAPD West Traffic Division Station Number 27, LADOT - Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Parking Enforcement Hollywood Division Agency 54 on 411 North Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California 90004-3512, Los Angeles City Council District 13 Office of Councilmember Mitchell O'Farrell transitioning into Hugo Soto-Martinez and Council District 4 Office of Councilwoman Nithya Raman)

Pallets of equipment ready to ship out of Iraq sits in a hanger at the redistribution property assistance team yard on Contingency operating Base Adder, Nov. 27.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (May 9, 2015) - Nepalese Army, 36th Contingency Response Group Airmen, and Bangladesh Air Force members process relief supplies from a BAF C-130 Hercules at the Tribhuvan International Airport. The Nepalese Army and Airmen worked with military members from the Bangladesh Air Force and Indian Air Force to process cargo from their aircraft arriving in Nepal to provide disaster relief following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the nation April 25. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa White/Released) 150507-F-XN788-036

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Looking at my old winter contingency's I felt that they were pretty small and lacked some detail. So i decided to try it again. Let me know how it looks so far. Im also runnign out of ideas and havnt made a moc in awhile. Itll look better later on.

Flight Medic.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq – Capt. Kim Walter a operations officer serving with 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, then a Sgt. 1st Class flight medic serving with 50th Medical Company, 101st Airborne Division, also known as the Air Ambulance unit, stands in front of her U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter in Taji, Iraq, 2004, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. While deployed as a flight medic, her job was to support medical evacuations by helicopter. Walter credits her military experience in helping to ensure 101st BSB succeeds during her current deployment in support of Operation New Dawn.

(U.S. Army photo courtesy of Capt. Kim Walter, 101st BSB, 1st AATF PAO, 1st Inf. Div., USD-N)

U.S. Army Africa 1st Lt. Salvatore Buzzurro, Africa Contingency Operations Training & Assistance program military mentor, gives a Sierra Leone Armed Forces Soldiers advice on movement techniques. The SL Army has been training with the ACOTA program for two years, and this is the fifth company prepping for their peacekeeping mission in another country. Photo by U.S. Army Africa.

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Reclamation's Lower Colorado Regional Director Terry Fulp, WAPA's Senior VP and Desert Southwest Regional Manager Ron Moulton, WAPA Project Manager Scott Lund and Reclamation's Lower Colorado Dams Office Area Manager Len Schilling celebrate the completion of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan for the Upper and Lower Basins May 20 at Hoover Dam. (Photo provided by Scott Lund)

U.S. Soldiers, assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, get equipment issued during Exercise Combined Resolve III at Grafenwoehr, Germany, Oct. 6, 2014. The equipment is part of the European Activity Set (EAS), a battalion-sized set of equipment pre-positioned on the Grafenwoehr Training Area to outfit and support U.S. Army forces rotating to Europe for training and contingency missions in support of the U.S. European Command. Combined Resolve III is a U.S. Army Europe-led, multi-national exercise at the Joint Multinational Training Command's Hohenfels and Grafenwoehr training areas in Germany. The exercise focuses on maintaining and enhancing interoperability during unified land operations in a decisive action training environment. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Gertrud Zach/released)

Tech. Sgt. Donald Gerhart, 435th Contingency Response Group, monitors the pallet loading of supplies to be flown from Rwanda to the Central African Republic in support of a joint operation with personnel from the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. The operation is in support of an African Union effort to confront destabilizing forces and violence within Central African Republic.(U.S. Army Africa photos by Master Sgt. Thomas Mills)

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Chief Warrant Officer Ron Jupiter, instructor of the Sexual Assault Self-Defense class, demonstrates a technique to break free of an assailants grasp, April 3 at the U.S. Div.-South Resiliency Campus at Contingency Operating Base Basra. The first class coincides with the month of April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but the series will continue for the next few months. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jason Kaneshiro)

08/09/11- Mogadishu, Somalia - Colonel Paul Lokech, Contingency Commander of AMISOM addresses the press in Mogadishu stadium, the former al-Shabaab headquarters. Al-Shabaab withdrew from Mogadishu on the 6th August 2011.

Press Handout - AU/UN IST/ANTHONY HUNT

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Ten Tors is one of the biggest multi-agency, tri service civil contingency exercises in Britain. It is run by more than nine hundred military personnel - almost all of them Reservists - from all three branches of the Armed Forces, led by the Army’s 43 (Wessex) Brigade with its HQ in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

The 54th running of the event this year comes just months after military personnel, including Reservists from the South West , assisted local authorities, the Environment Agency and blue-light services during the floods, carrying out a range of tasks from sandbagging to engineering.

As a military exercise Ten Tors provides the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to practice these life-saving civil contingency responsibilities, to enable the military - assisted by the emergency services, including The British Red Cross and the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group - to be ready to help when they are called upon during a national emergency.

Brigadier Piers Hankinson MBE, Director of Ten Tors, is the Commander of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and was the Joint Military Commander for the South West during the flooding.

“The severe flooding across parts of the South West earlier this year clearly demonstrates the importance of such training and the ability to react to fast changing conditions and working in a multi-agency tri-service team. It also highlights the way that Reservists, who have wide ranging civilian experience and employment (from plumbers to accountants), train to operate with their regular counterparts under a One-Army ethos.”

Ten Tors:

As well as a vital high-level military exercise, The Ten Tors Challenge is also one of the biggest outdoors adventure events for young people in Britain today. In all, 2400 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 will take part in Ten Tors, with a further 300 youngsters with physical or educational needs taking part in the Jubilee Challenge.

The majority of the teams who enter Ten Tors are from schools and youth groups from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. As usual, scores of scout groups, sports and ramblers teams and Armed Forces cadet units have accepted the challenge and are taking part.

Those teenagers taking on the Ten Tors Challenge will trek unaided over 35, 45 or 55 miles of some of the toughest terrain and highest peaks in Southern England relying on their navigational skills and carrying all their food, water, bedding, tents and other essentials as they go.

It is a feat they must complete as a team and without any help from adults and they’ll remain entirely self-sufficient during their arduous expeditions, including camping out overnight on the moor.

They do it for the challenge; to test themselves against one of the last remaining wildernesses in Britain. What they get in return for their months of hard training and commitment, as well as determination and bravery during the event itself, is an experience they’ll remember forever and the chance to learn a set of skills and values which will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

It’s a rite of passage which has played a positive and formative role in shaping the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.

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North Dakota Army National Guard Staff Sgt Cody Martin, Bismarck, N.D., is greeted Gov. Jack Dalrymple at the Guard’s Army Aviation Support Facility, in Bismarck, on Sept. 10, 2013. Martin along with two other Soldiers of the Guard’s 1919th Contingency Contracting Team (CCT) were welcomed home to North Dakota this afternoon by fellow Guardsmen, family, friends and loved ones after a nine-month long mission in Qatar and Afghanistan. (National Guard Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Steve Urlacher, N.D. National Guard Visual Information/Released)

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MCAS FUTENMA, OKINAWA, JAPAN (May 5, 2017) - Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force, Alert Contingency Marine Air Ground Task Force (ACM) board an MV-22 osprey during a ACM drill, on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan. The ACM must be prepared to respond within 24 hours to crises throughout the Asian pacific region to mitigate crises, protect U.S. citizens, and territories, or counter threats to U.S. national interests as needed. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MCIPAC Combat Camera Cpl. Allison M. Lotz) 170505-M-MJ974-0093

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Cochise County, AZ Supervisor Ann English, Douglas, AZ Mayor Danny Ortega, Jr., Arizona Congressman Ron Barber, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs (MRP) Ed Avalos, and local stakeholder Gary Thrasher at the newly built USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Douglas, AZ on Sep. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.

Airman Mikal Moore, a Contingency Response Group aerial porter from Kentucky Air National Guard, chains down an M983 Truck inside a C-5 Galaxy on the Altus Air Force Base flight line Jan. 4, 2013. Members of the 97th Air Mobility Wing; the Kentucky Air Guard; the 31st Air Defense Artillery Army Brigade, Fort Sill, Okla; and the 167th Airlift Wing, Martinsburg, W. Va., joined forces to deploy batteries of Patriot air-defense systems, more than two million pounds of equipment and over 300 personnel to Turkey in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Levin Boland / Released)

The bioremediation tank at the newly built U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Douglas, AZ on Sep. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.

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Ten Tors is one of the biggest multi-agency, tri service civil contingency exercises in Britain. It is run by more than nine hundred military personnel - almost all of them Reservists - from all three branches of the Armed Forces, led by the Army’s 43 (Wessex) Brigade with its HQ in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

The 54th running of the event this year comes just months after military personnel, including Reservists from the South West , assisted local authorities, the Environment Agency and blue-light services during the floods, carrying out a range of tasks from sandbagging to engineering.

As a military exercise Ten Tors provides the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to practice these life-saving civil contingency responsibilities, to enable the military - assisted by the emergency services, including The British Red Cross and the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group - to be ready to help when they are called upon during a national emergency.

Brigadier Piers Hankinson MBE, Director of Ten Tors, is the Commander of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and was the Joint Military Commander for the South West during the flooding.

“The severe flooding across parts of the South West earlier this year clearly demonstrates the importance of such training and the ability to react to fast changing conditions and working in a multi-agency tri-service team. It also highlights the way that Reservists, who have wide ranging civilian experience and employment (from plumbers to accountants), train to operate with their regular counterparts under a One-Army ethos.”

Ten Tors:

As well as a vital high-level military exercise, The Ten Tors Challenge is also one of the biggest outdoors adventure events for young people in Britain today. In all, 2400 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 will take part in Ten Tors, with a further 300 youngsters with physical or educational needs taking part in the Jubilee Challenge.

The majority of the teams who enter Ten Tors are from schools and youth groups from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. As usual, scores of scout groups, sports and ramblers teams and Armed Forces cadet units have accepted the challenge and are taking part.

Those teenagers taking on the Ten Tors Challenge will trek unaided over 35, 45 or 55 miles of some of the toughest terrain and highest peaks in Southern England relying on their navigational skills and carrying all their food, water, bedding, tents and other essentials as they go.

It is a feat they must complete as a team and without any help from adults and they’ll remain entirely self-sufficient during their arduous expeditions, including camping out overnight on the moor.

They do it for the challenge; to test themselves against one of the last remaining wildernesses in Britain. What they get in return for their months of hard training and commitment, as well as determination and bravery during the event itself, is an experience they’ll remember forever and the chance to learn a set of skills and values which will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

It’s a rite of passage which has played a positive and formative role in shaping the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.

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Cochise County, AZ Supervisor Ann English, speaks to participants at the celebration for the completion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Douglas, AZ on Sep. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.

Senior U.S. Army Africa NCOs recently conducted an on-the-ground training observation and exchange of ideas with their counterparts in the United Republic of Tanzania.

At the invitation of the Tanzania People Defense Force Land Forces, Army Africa Command Sgt. Maj. Gary J. Bronson and Equal Opportunity Officer, Sgt. Maj. Osvaldo Del Hoyo, with most of the TPDF’s noncommissioned and warrant officer corps to discuss the importance of leadership development at the NCO level as key to building force cohesion and soldier confidence in their leadership.

“They’re highly disciplined NCOs, and they really want to develop the corps,” Del Hoyo said.

The Army Africa NCOs toured the Tanzanian Peace Keeping Center to observe training activities and facilities, and share their insights on possible approaches to improve training.

They also traveled to the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance site at Msata to observe a TPDF battalion a gearing up for deployment to peacekeeping operations in Rwanda.

Bronson and Del Hoyo were briefed on the battalion’s upcoming mission, its readiness and a variety of training issues and concerns. The Army Africa NCOs observed each training event at the ACOTA, and ended the day with a roundtable discussion with TPDF officers and senior NCOs.

“This was time well spent both in terms of observing the TPDF training activities in person, and in building our partnership for peace and stability with the land forces leadership,” said Bronson.

The Army Africa NCOs ended their trip with a visit with Col. Tim Mitchell, senior defense official and defense attaché, and Lt. Col. Kevin Balisky, Office of Security Cooperation, and other military leaders at the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam to discuss future engagements.

“I’ll be traveling there again in September to assess their enlisted development program,” said Del Hoyo.

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(From left) Lt. Col. Mary Campbell, signal operations officer, Contingency Command Post, and U.S. Army Africa Commander Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahue II, explain communications assemblages outside the Expeditionary Command Post to Nigerian Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Mindy Anderson)

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Wildland fire activity at Web Dip. Photo taken by Contingency Group.

U.S. Air Force logistics personnel, assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a contracted Boeing 747 airliner at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 9, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Megan Floyd)

Pictured: A crewman talks the pilot down to land.

Ten Tors is one of the biggest multi-agency, tri service civil contingency exercises in Britain. It is run by more than nine hundred military personnel - almost all of them Reservists - from all three branches of the Armed Forces, led by the Army’s 43 (Wessex) Brigade with its HQ in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

The 54th running of the event this year comes just months after military personnel, including Reservists from the South West , assisted local authorities, the Environment Agency and blue-light services during the floods, carrying out a range of tasks from sandbagging to engineering.

As a military exercise Ten Tors provides the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to practice these life-saving civil contingency responsibilities, to enable the military - assisted by the emergency services, including The British Red Cross and the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group - to be ready to help when they are called upon during a national emergency.

Brigadier Piers Hankinson MBE, Director of Ten Tors, is the Commander of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and was the Joint Military Commander for the South West during the flooding.

“The severe flooding across parts of the South West earlier this year clearly demonstrates the importance of such training and the ability to react to fast changing conditions and working in a multi-agency tri-service team. It also highlights the way that Reservists, who have wide ranging civilian experience and employment (from plumbers to accountants), train to operate with their regular counterparts under a One-Army ethos.”

Ten Tors:

As well as a vital high-level military exercise, The Ten Tors Challenge is also one of the biggest outdoors adventure events for young people in Britain today. In all, 2400 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 will take part in Ten Tors, with a further 300 youngsters with physical or educational needs taking part in the Jubilee Challenge.

The majority of the teams who enter Ten Tors are from schools and youth groups from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. As usual, scores of scout groups, sports and ramblers teams and Armed Forces cadet units have accepted the challenge and are taking part.

Those teenagers taking on the Ten Tors Challenge will trek unaided over 35, 45 or 55 miles of some of the toughest terrain and highest peaks in Southern England relying on their navigational skills and carrying all their food, water, bedding, tents and other essentials as they go.

It is a feat they must complete as a team and without any help from adults and they’ll remain entirely self-sufficient during their arduous expeditions, including camping out overnight on the moor.

They do it for the challenge; to test themselves against one of the last remaining wildernesses in Britain. What they get in return for their months of hard training and commitment, as well as determination and bravery during the event itself, is an experience they’ll remember forever and the chance to learn a set of skills and values which will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

It’s a rite of passage which has played a positive and formative role in shaping the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.

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Photo credit to read - Cpl Si Longworth RLC (Phot)

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Payday Activities.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq – A representative from the Ministry of Peshmerga counts out hardship and hazardous duty pay to Sgt. Tajani, a Peshmerga soldier serving with the Combined Security Forces at Contingency Operating Site Warrior, Jan 19, 2011. The CSF, a combined unit of Iraqi Army, Iraqi Police, and Peshmerga, operates from COS Warrior, working alongside U.S. forces conducting patrols in Kirkuk province. “We want to give these soldiers encouragement to keep up the good work they have been doing, and we want to thank them for volunteering to leave their homes to fight for their country,” said Brig. Gen. Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan of the Peshmerga, who supervised the payday activities. The Ministry of Peshmerga plans on leading payday activities every month, paying the soldiers 20 to 30 extra dollars a month for transportation, food, hardship and serving in a hazardous environment.

(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Alyxandra McChesney, 1st AATF PAO, 1st Inf. Div., USD-N)

Columbus, NM Mayor Phillip Skinner and his wife speak to local stakeholders at the celebration for the completion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Douglas, AZ on Sep. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs (MRP) Ed Avalos discusses U.S. Mexico cattle trade with local stakeholders at the celebration for the completion of USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Douglas, AZ on Sep. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.

Photographer - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

Pictured - A Soldier from 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) Battle Group (BG) on a foot patrol.

Exercise BAVARIAN CHARGER is the first of three large contingency operation exercises being undertaken by 20th Armoured Brigade between May – October 2013. Contingency Operations training is known as Hybrid Foundation Training or HFT.

The aim of this exercise is to train the 5 Rifles, The Queens Dragoon Guards (QDG) Battle Groups and 1 Logistic Support Regiment in combined arms manoeuvre.

The exercise is split into 3 main phases. The first phase consists of a two week live firing exercise in Grafenwoer, Southern Germany, that enables the units and soldiers to refine their skills with their equipment and weapons. Training is constructed to develop skills from the individual level through to the Battlegroup level and culminates in a final attack that sees the use of helicopters, tanks, artillery and infantry combined.

The second phase will see all the exercising units transition from Grafenwoer to Hohnfels, some 100 km further south and simulates the kind of movements that are undertaken when moving an Armed force into hostile territory.

The third, and final phase is designed to test the planning and execution of combined arms manoeuvre operations in a hostile environment. The units will execute orders based on the delivery of Brigade Orders to defeat the enemy within the scenario.

2100 personnel with upto 768 vehicles ranging from Landrover, to Tanks to Apache helicopters are being exercised from 20th Armoured Brigade whose Headquarters are based in Sennelager, Germany. Approximately 500 personnel are required to support those training to ensure that supplies are maintained, vehicles are fixed and soldiers fed.

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Ten Tors is one of the biggest multi-agency, tri service civil contingency exercises in Britain. It is run by more than nine hundred military personnel - almost all of them Reservists - from all three branches of the Armed Forces, led by the Army’s 43 (Wessex) Brigade with its HQ in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

The 54th running of the event this year comes just months after military personnel, including Reservists from the South West , assisted local authorities, the Environment Agency and blue-light services during the floods, carrying out a range of tasks from sandbagging to engineering.

As a military exercise Ten Tors provides the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to practice these life-saving civil contingency responsibilities, to enable the military - assisted by the emergency services, including The British Red Cross and the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group - to be ready to help when they are called upon during a national emergency.

Brigadier Piers Hankinson MBE, Director of Ten Tors, is the Commander of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and was the Joint Military Commander for the South West during the flooding.

“The severe flooding across parts of the South West earlier this year clearly demonstrates the importance of such training and the ability to react to fast changing conditions and working in a multi-agency tri-service team. It also highlights the way that Reservists, who have wide ranging civilian experience and employment (from plumbers to accountants), train to operate with their regular counterparts under a One-Army ethos.”

Ten Tors:

As well as a vital high-level military exercise, The Ten Tors Challenge is also one of the biggest outdoors adventure events for young people in Britain today. In all, 2400 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 will take part in Ten Tors, with a further 300 youngsters with physical or educational needs taking part in the Jubilee Challenge.

The majority of the teams who enter Ten Tors are from schools and youth groups from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. As usual, scores of scout groups, sports and ramblers teams and Armed Forces cadet units have accepted the challenge and are taking part.

Those teenagers taking on the Ten Tors Challenge will trek unaided over 35, 45 or 55 miles of some of the toughest terrain and highest peaks in Southern England relying on their navigational skills and carrying all their food, water, bedding, tents and other essentials as they go.

It is a feat they must complete as a team and without any help from adults and they’ll remain entirely self-sufficient during their arduous expeditions, including camping out overnight on the moor.

They do it for the challenge; to test themselves against one of the last remaining wildernesses in Britain. What they get in return for their months of hard training and commitment, as well as determination and bravery during the event itself, is an experience they’ll remember forever and the chance to learn a set of skills and values which will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

It’s a rite of passage which has played a positive and formative role in shaping the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.

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Photo credit to read - Cpl Si Longworth RLC (Phot)

Email: simonlongworth@mediaops.army.mod.uk

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A large fuel bladder, nestled in a berm of earth, provides fuel for vehicles transporting equipment out of Iraq on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Nov. 5.

Airman 1st Class Courtney Wheeler (left) and Senior Airman Jordan Mafnas (right), both 734th Air Mobility Squadron air transportation specialists, secure a forklift inside a C-17 Globemaster III May 4, 2015, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in preparation for deployment to Nepal. The 36th Contingency Response Group is a rapid-deployment unit designed to establish and maintain airfield operations in a forward operating location and is prepared to assist with the Nepal earthquake recovery efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa B. White/Released)

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- Three close precision engagement course candidates assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing finish an exhausting bear crawl to a firing position on a firing range here Oct. 3. The candidates were participating in an in-house 10-day CPEC indoctrination and qualification course to prepare them for the more rigorous 19-day U.S. Air Force CPEC course at Fort Bliss, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)

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CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – Soldiers of 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, congratulate awardees following an award ceremony, Mar. 19, 2011, at Faulkenberg Theater on Contingency Operating Base Warhorse in the Diyala province, Iraq. Lt. Col. Scott Murray, commander of 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd AAB, 25th Inf. Div., presented one Purple Heart Medal and 15 Combat Action Badges during the ceremony.

(U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Robert England, 2nd AAB PAO, 25th Inf. Div., USD-N)

Crews work to move sand, freshly pumped from nearby Moriches Inlet, as part of post-Hurricane Sandy barrier island breach closure operations Monday Novemnber 26, 2012. The barrier island breach closure work at Cupsogue County Park, which was carried out as part of the Breach Contingency Plan in partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, was completed Tuesday evening November 27, 2012. (photo by Chris Gardner, New York District public affairs)

Seen from across the battle drill "sand table" at the Convoy Readiness Center, Contingency Operating Location Q-West, members of 1st Platoon, C Company, 2/198th CAB, a Mississippi Army National Guard armor unit out of Oxford, Miss., prepare for a convoy security mission to Forward Operating Base Warrior, Oct. 28.

Staff Sgt. Jamie Rosado, an aerial transportation specialist for the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Logistics Readiness Squadron, secures a forklift from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group onto a C-17 aircraft at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Aug. 29, 2017 in preparation for Hurricane Harvey rescue efforts in Texas. More than 40 Airmen from the Kentucky and Mississippi Air National Guard are heading to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where they will rapidly establish airfield, aeromedical evacuation and cargo operations. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)

Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal members along with U.S. Air Force 36th Contingency Response Group Airmen attached to Joint Task Force 505 work together to repair the runway at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 10, 2015. The Nepalese officials and Airmen teamed up to conduct necessary repairs to the airfield after it sustained damage following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the nation April 25. In response to the Nepal earthquake, the U.S. military sent Airmen, Marines, Soldiers and Sailors as part of JTF 505 to support the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission in Nepal at the direction of U.S. Agency for International Development. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa B. White/Released)

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17 November, 2006

Camp Lejeune North Carolina shore

Aboard a United States Navy landing craft utility

HMCS Athabaskan turns about off Camp Lejeune North Carolina shore in support of amphibious landing operations.

The Integrated Tactical Effects Experiment (ITEE), taking place on the eastern seaboard from 2-20 November, 2006 is a significant exercise within the Standing Contingency Force (SCF) concept of operation. The aim of the exercise is to evaluate and define the feasibility of the deployment and maintenance of a high readiness sea based and seaborne joint expeditionary task force for Canada.

Participating in the ITEE are Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen and women, along with ships from the Naval Task Group, G-Wagons, Light Armoured Vehicles (LAV) III and Sea King helicopters modified for troop transport.

Key to the experiment is the expertise of the U.S. Navy combined with the U.S. Marine Corps mentorship and the lending of USS Gunston Hall, an amphibious assault ship embarking CF Staff and troops required to test the SCF concept.

Photo by Combat Camera photographer Warrant Officer Randolph Rice, Assistant Deputy Minister (Public Affairs), Ottawa

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IS2006-8139

17 novembre 2006

Camp Lejeune plage dela Caroline du Nord

À bord d’une barge de débarquement à usage général de la marine américaine

Le NCSM Athabaskan, en appui aux opérations de débarquement de véhicules amphibis, fait demi-tour au large du Camp Lejeune, sur les côtes de la Caroline du Nord.

L’expérience intégrée des effets tactiques (EIET), qui se déroule sur la côte est du 2 au 20 novembre 2006, est un exercice important dans le cadre du concept de la Force opérationnelle permanente de contingence (FOPC). Cet exercice vise à définir et à tester, pour le Canada, la viabilité d’une force expéditionnaire interarmées à disponibilité opérationnelle élevée stationnée près du littoral.

De nombreux soldats, marins et aviateurs participent à cet exercice dans le cadre duquel sont engagés des navires du groupe opérationnel naval, des véhicules utilitaires G-Wagon, des véhicules légers (VBL) III et des hélicoptères Sea Kingmodifiés pour le transport de troupes.

Le succès de cette expérience repose sur l’expertise de la Marine américaine combinée au mentorat du Corps des Marines, ainsi que sur la participation de l’USS Gunston Hall, bâtiment d’assaut amphibie prêté par les Américains pour transporter l’état-major et les troupes des Forces canadiennes.

Photo: Caméra de combat des FC – Adjudant Randolph Rice, sous-ministre adjoint (Affaires publiques), Ottawa

Tech. Sgt. John Rodriguez, 321st Contingency Response Squadron security team, provides security with a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 prototype at a simulated austere base during an Advanced Battle Management System exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Sept. 1, 2020. The ABMS, allows a joint force to use cutting-edge methods and technologies to rapidly collect, analyze, and share information and make decisions in real time while also also making the information available instantaneously across geographically-separated forces spanning the operational to tactical levels of combat. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Michelle Y. Alvarez)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Manoj Khatiwada (right), 21st Medical Operations Squadron aerospace medical technician, talks with a Nepalese Army soldier, Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 7, 2015. Manoj joined a team from the 36th Contingency Response Group to assist U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development operations by assisting with communicating with the Nepalese Army as they process relief supplies following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the region April 25, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Ashley Conner/Released)

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Ten Tors is one of the biggest multi-agency, tri service civil contingency exercises in Britain. It is run by more than nine hundred military personnel - almost all of them Reservists - from all three branches of the Armed Forces, led by the Army’s 43 (Wessex) Brigade with its HQ in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

The 54th running of the event this year comes just months after military personnel, including Reservists from the South West , assisted local authorities, the Environment Agency and blue-light services during the floods, carrying out a range of tasks from sandbagging to engineering.

As a military exercise Ten Tors provides the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to practice these life-saving civil contingency responsibilities, to enable the military - assisted by the emergency services, including The British Red Cross and the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group - to be ready to help when they are called upon during a national emergency.

Brigadier Piers Hankinson MBE, Director of Ten Tors, is the Commander of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and was the Joint Military Commander for the South West during the flooding.

“The severe flooding across parts of the South West earlier this year clearly demonstrates the importance of such training and the ability to react to fast changing conditions and working in a multi-agency tri-service team. It also highlights the way that Reservists, who have wide ranging civilian experience and employment (from plumbers to accountants), train to operate with their regular counterparts under a One-Army ethos.”

Ten Tors:

As well as a vital high-level military exercise, The Ten Tors Challenge is also one of the biggest outdoors adventure events for young people in Britain today. In all, 2400 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 will take part in Ten Tors, with a further 300 youngsters with physical or educational needs taking part in the Jubilee Challenge.

The majority of the teams who enter Ten Tors are from schools and youth groups from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. As usual, scores of scout groups, sports and ramblers teams and Armed Forces cadet units have accepted the challenge and are taking part.

Those teenagers taking on the Ten Tors Challenge will trek unaided over 35, 45 or 55 miles of some of the toughest terrain and highest peaks in Southern England relying on their navigational skills and carrying all their food, water, bedding, tents and other essentials as they go.

It is a feat they must complete as a team and without any help from adults and they’ll remain entirely self-sufficient during their arduous expeditions, including camping out overnight on the moor.

They do it for the challenge; to test themselves against one of the last remaining wildernesses in Britain. What they get in return for their months of hard training and commitment, as well as determination and bravery during the event itself, is an experience they’ll remember forever and the chance to learn a set of skills and values which will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

It’s a rite of passage which has played a positive and formative role in shaping the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.

NOTE TO DESKS:

MoD release authorised handout images.

All images remain Crown Copyright 2013.

Photo credit to read - Cpl Si Longworth RLC (Phot)

Email: simonlongworth@mediaops.army.mod.uk

richardwatt@mediaops.army.mod.uk

shanewilkinson@mediaops.army.mod.uk

Si Longworth - 07414 191994

Richard Watt - 07836 515306

Shane Wilkinson - 07901 590723

U.S. Air Force Col. Lee Anderson, 36th Contingency Response Group commander, talks with Indian air force leadership after they delivered relief supplies on their IL-76 cargo aircraft May 7, 2015, at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Nepalese Army and Airmen worked with military members from the Bangladesh air force and Indian air force to process cargo from their aircraft arriving in Nepal to provide disaster relief following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the nation April 25. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa White/Released)

Aerial porters from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group position a Halverson cargo-handling vehicle to offload pallets of humanitarian aid from a U.S. Air Force KC-10 aircraft at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Nov. 12, 2014. The Kentucky Airmen will stage the cargo in Senegal before transloading it to U.S. Air Force C-130J aircraft for delivery into Monrovia, Liberia, in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)

CH-47 Chinook aircraft prepare to take off from Latham Landing Zone at Fort Bragg, N.C., in support of the Saturday Proficiency Jump Program (SPJP) on April 16, 2016. The SPJP builds proficiency, experience, and confidence of individual Paratroopers, ensuring the XVIII Airborne Corps remains ready for contingency response missions. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Tierney P. Curry) (Released)

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Lieutenant Colonel Randy Rizor, anesthesiologist, 256th Combat Support Hospital, performs a lumbar epidural steroid injection, with fluoroscopy, while Iraqi Air Force Capt. Mahmood Mohammad, a doctor assigned to the Iraqi Air Force Academy, observes at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, July 27, 2011. Every week, a medical care provider from the Iraqi Air Force Academy visits the CSH to observe their American counterparts’ operating procedures.

(U.S. Army photo)

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This is the Ciclavia Meets The Hollywoods between East and West Hollywood Bike Route finally ends at West Hollywood Bicycle Hubs.

(Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department West Hollywood Division Sheriff’s Station Patrol Station Number 9, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor Sheila Kuehl District 3, West Hollywood City Hall Government Administrative Offices with Mayors and City Councilmembers)

Anti-Gridlock Zone, Do Not Block Intersection, Minimum Fine Zone, Violators Cited and Photographed.

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