Staff Sgt. Brian Leach, aerial port ramp supervisor for the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, pushes a pallet of cargo from a C-17 during Exercise Eagle Flag at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on March 28, 2012. The unit, from Louisville, Ky., joined forces with the U.S. Army’s 690th Rapid Port Opening Element from Ft. Eustis, Va., to establish a Joint Task Force Rapid-Port Opening through March 30. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)

Staff Sgt. Ebony Spann confirms a cable connection on a satellite dish during a deployment exercise of U.S. Army Africa’s Contingency Command Post Aug. 8-12. The successful completion of the exercise validated the ability for USARAF’s Contingency Command Post to deploy and use new, cutting-edge communications equipment. Spann was a member of a team that successfully linked to a Ka band satellite during the deployment exercise. USRAF’s CCP is the first U.S. military unit to establish a Ka band link in Europe.

Photo by Rich Bartell, U.S. Army Africa Public Affairs

To learn more about U.S. Army Africa visit our official website at www.usaraf.army.mil

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A Soldier of the U. S. Army Europe Contingency Command Post directs a Fourth Infantry Division Soldier to the welcome briefing room upon arrival at Camp Aachen, Grafenwoehr, Germany, Feb. 9, 2015. Members of the Fourth Infantry Division Headquarters are deploying to Europe in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve Operation Atlantic Resolve as the first Regionally Aligned Forces division headquarters for U.S. European Command under Army Europe’s enhanced land forces training and security cooperation activities. The Fourth Infantry Division will serve as the division-level headquarters for all U.S. Army forces participating in Operation Atlantic Resolve. Those forces include rotational units that are conducting bi-lateral training as a part of the United States Army’s persistent presence in Europe, and those forces participating in the numerous exercises being conducted as a part of OAR. Operation Atlantic Resolve provides the Fourth Infantry Division the opportunity to work and train alongside our NATO allies, and forge relationships that foster trust and mutual understanding.

For more information visit the Operation Atlantic Resolve website at www.eur.army.mil/landforceassurance/. (Photo by Joint Multinational Training Command Public Affairs)

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.

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.

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 Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, move toward an objective during a blank-fire exercise as part of Eagle Sokol at Pocek Range in Slovenia, Mar. 25, 2019. Exercise Eagle Sokol is a bilateral training exercise with the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures. Exercises such as this build a foundation of teamwork and readiness between allied NATO countries. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility. (U.S. Army Photos by Paolo Bovo)

"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!

Keep Left on Left Lane to turn left at the next intersection of the intersections traffic signal flashing red lights powered off and switched off modification controlled by Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Special Traffic Operations, Traffic and Transportation Management Plan, and Program Contingency Engineers during the operation for the cicLAvia South Central to Leimert Park, Southwest Los Angeles Open Streets Bicycle Route, Figueroa Street crossing points open to cross traffic for automobiles intersection traffic signal red lights, left turn protected green yellow red arrow lights and pedestrian crosswalk crossing don't walk orange hand lights located at South Los Angeles, California 90037.

Hill Street South One Way Exit Only

(Leaving Los Angeles Police Department Newton Division Patrol Station Number 13, LAPD Central Traffic Division Station Number 24 is now entering into LAPD Southwest Division Patrol Station Number 3 and LAPD South Traffic Division Station Number 25, LADOT - Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Parking Enforcement South Los Angeles Division Agency 55 on 7510 South Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles, California 90003-1737 and Los Angeles City Council District 9 Office of Councilmember Curren Price)

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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.

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)

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.

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)

To learn more about U.S. Army Africa visit our official website at www.usaraf.army.mil

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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)

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)

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.

To learn more about U.S. Army Africa visit our official website at www.usaraf.army.mil

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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)

To learn more about U.S. Army Africa visit our official website at www.usaraf.army.mil

Join the U.S. Army Africa conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArmyAfrica

U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, provide security after an airborne operation from a U.S. Air Force 86th Air Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft, during exercise Eagle Sokol at Cerklje Drop Zone in Slovenia, Mar. 22, 2019. Exercise Eagle Sokol is a bilateral training exercise with the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures. Exercises such as this build a foundation of teamwork and readiness between allied NATO countries. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility. (U.S. Army Photos by Paolo Bovo)

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

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.

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.

(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)

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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.

Pictured:

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 Senior Airman Cyril McKenney, left, and Airman 1st Class Dennis Nellessen, 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Detachment 1 Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF) aerospace medical technicians, search the bag of a wounded Marine for any potentially dangerous or contraband items during an antihijacking check prior to loading wounded Marines onto an Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. McKenney and Nellessen are deployed from the 633rd Medical Operations Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz)

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)

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.

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

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)

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)

English/Anglais

IS2006-8139

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

French/Français

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

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)

A U.S. Air Force Loadmaster sits on the ramp of a C-130 Hercules during airborne operations at International Jump Week (IJW), Ramstein Air Base, Germany, July 8, 2015. The 435th Contingency Response Group hosts IJW annually, to build global partnerships, foster camaraderie between U.S. and International paratroopers, and to exchange current tactics, techniques and procedures pertaining to Airborne Operations (Static Line and Military Free Fall). (U.S. Army Photo By Staff Sgt. Justin P. Morelli / Released)

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.

Congratulations.

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)

Pictured:

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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Pictured:

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)

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.

A C-130 Hercules conducts air mobility operations at Holland Drop Zone on Fort Bragg. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Edward Gyokeres)

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)

Members of the 97th Air Mobility Wing at Altus Air Force Base, Okla., the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group from Louisville, Ky., the 31st Air Defense Artillery Army Brigade from Fort Sill, Okla., and the 167th Airlift Wing from Martinsburg, W. Va., unload an M984 Wrecker from a 167th AW C-5 Galaxy on the Altus flight line Jan. 4, 2013. The units joined forces to deploy batteries of Patriot air-defense systems, more than two million pounds of equipment and about 300 personnel to Turkey in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Levin Bolan)

NAVAL BASE VENTURA COUTNY, Calif. (December 16, 2015) Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 Headquarters Company participate in a force march to acclimate to the protective gear and equipment they wear in contingency environment. NMCB 5 specializes in contingency construction, disaster response, and humanitarian assistance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John P. Curtis/Released)

401st AFSB Soldiers who will be redeploying received end of tour awards during an awards ceremony held September 15. Bronze Star Medals were presented to Lt. Col. James A. Fearson, Master Sgt. Natasha J. Hoyle, Master Sgt. Christopher D. Lyle, Sgt. 1st Class Billy J. Graves, Sgt 1st Class Tyrone Nix, Sgt. 1st Class Johnny E. Reeves and Sgt. Brian K. McCleskey. Army Commendation Medals were presented to Maj. Jennifer L. Mahoney, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph R. Bergin, Sgt. 1st Class Glenn A. Lemay, Staff Sgt. Otis C. Robinson, Staff Sgt. Antonio D. Suggs, Sgt. Nora D. Burden, Cpl. Jared L. Bailey, and Spc. Roy M. Watkins by Maj. Gen. William Rapp, inocming USFOR-A Deputy Commanding General - Support and Brig. Gen. Les Carroll, JSC-A Commanding General.

Thanks to all for the hard work and friendship over the last year. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

About the 401st:

The 401st Army field Support Brigade provides Soldiers, Sailors, Airman, and Marines, the tools and resources necessary to complete the mission. If they shoot, drive it, fly it, wear it, eat it or communicate with it, the 401st helps provide it. The brigade assists coalition partners with many of their logistical and sustainment needs. The brigade also handles the responsible disposition of equipment in Afghanistan to support evolving missions. We are the single link between Warfighters in the field, and working through Army Sustainment Command, we leverage Army Materiel Command’s worldwide Materiel Enterprise to develop, deliver, and sustain materiel to ensure a dominant joint force for the U.S. and our Allies.

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Paint as Material Contingency

Exhibition in the Artlab by the Third Year Advanced Painting class (VAS 3310).

October 31 - November 14, 2014

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 2014,

Participating student artists from VAS 3310

Sophie Bisnaire

Danielle Brideau

Michelle Bunton

Tabitha Chan

Christie Constantine

Cayley Cowan

Emilie Currie

Yara El Safi

Corry Faulkner

Angela Ferreira

Jacob Freeman

Brenda Fuhrman

Ella Gonzales

Karissa Hill

Alexandra Kalifer

Sophia Lloyd-Jones

Rowan McCormick

Jasmine Park

Faith Patrick

Andrea Polzer

Robin Scott

Abby Vincent

Daniel Welsh

Carina Wharton

By installing your artwork in the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, you agree to have it photographed and release all rights in and consent to the use of this photo for all legal purposes. Would you like to see your work properly captioned? vrlibrary@uwo.ca

© 2014; Department of Visual Arts; Western University

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, ground guide a track vehicle 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)

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)

Photographer - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

Pictured - The AS90 self-propelled gun from 26 Royal Artillery firing the 155mm shells .

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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MoD release authorised handout images.

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Photo credit to read - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

Email: wescalder@mediaops.army.mod.uk

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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (Feb. 19, 2014) - Airmen from the 36th Contingency Response Group offload a pallet of humanitarian aid supplies from a Royal Australian Air Force C-130 Hercules at the Rota International Airport. Airmen from the U.S. Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Royal Australian Air Force participating in Cope North, a multi-lateral exercise on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, transitioned from the scenario-based humanitarian assistance and disaster relief training of the exercise on Tinian to humanitarian assistance of food and commodities to the citizens of Rota when Governor Eloy Inos declared Rota under a state of emergency following months without their regular resupply by sea. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Marianique Santos)

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