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Sgt. Julian A. McKinnon, customs border control preclearance agent, 1st Cavalry Division, from San Antonio, Texas, seals a container with a bolt seal after conducting a customs inspection on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Oct. 15.
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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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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Associate Administrator Jere Dick talks about USDA's APHIS efforts to complete construction of USDA's APHIS Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Columbus, NM, during an event celebrating its completion on Sep. 25, 2014. The border fence between the U.S. and Mexico is in the background. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.
Soldiers from the 1729th Field Support Maintenance Company from Havre de Grace, Md., load wood scraps onto a forklift on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Nov. 2.
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)
NOVO SELO TRAINING AREA, Bulgaria – U.S. Army Europe's Contingency Command Post OIC Col. Frederick Jessen, stands in from of the formation during the Saber Guardian 2014 closing ceremony. This year's exercise, hosted by U.S. Army Europe and the Bulgarian Land Forces, is a multinational military exercise involving approximately 700 military personnel from twelve participating nations including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Turkey and the U.S., as well as representatives from NATO. The exercise, which runs until April 4, 2014, is designed to strengthen international agency and military partnering while fostering trust and improving interoperability between NATO and partner nations involved in foreign consequence management and peace support operations with U.S. forces. Saber Guardian 2014 is part of the U.S. Army Europe annual training and exercise program and has been planned for since 2013. Last year’s iteration of the training exercise was conducted at the Romanian Land Forces Combat Training Center in Cincu, Romania. The training at Saber Guardian 2014 will reinforce USAREUR commitment to increasing regional flexibility, preserving and enhancing NATO interoperability, and facilitating multinational training. (Photo by Sgt. Brooks Fletcher, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Cyril McKenney, left, and Airman 1st Class Dennis Nellessen, both 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)
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 U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III large transport aircraft from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 10, 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 Master Sgt. Edward Snyder)
180316-N-YG104-0042 OKINAWA, Japan (March 16, 2018) The dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) is moored to the pier at White Beach Naval Facility to embark the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Ashland, part of the Wasp Expeditionary Strike Group, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region as part of a regularly scheduled patrol and provides a rapid-response capability in the event of a regional contingency or natural disaster. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sarah Villegas/ Released)
CAMP MARMAL, Afghanistan – Tech. Sgt. Donnell Williams, an aircraft maintenance technician assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., watches the refueling of a Dover Air Force Base C-5M Super Galaxy at Camp Marmal, Afghanistan Jan. 26, 2013. The 621 CRW is forward deployed to the NATO camp to assist with the scheduled movement of two U.S. Army aviation task forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)
A multinational team comprised of U.S. Air Force engineers with the 36th Contingency Response Group, Joint Task Force (JTF) 505, a member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team, and a Nepalese civil engineer with the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, determine the geotechnical engineering properties of the soil at the Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 8, 2015. The team tested the soil to determine its stability following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal, April 25. The pavement evaluation tested to see if there were any significant changes to the soil beneath the runway since the earthquake. Any changes could restrict weight limitations to incoming flights in order to prevent any runway damage. The Nepalese government requested the U.S. Government assistance after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country April 25. JTF-505 is working in conjunction with USAID and the international community to assist Nepal.JTF-505 works in conjunction with USAID and the international community to provide unique capabilities to assist Nepal. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MCIPAC Combat Camera Staff Sgt. Jeffrey D. Anderson/Released)
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)
U.S. Air Force Capt. Clark Morgan, contingency engineer flight commander with the 36th Contingency Response Group, Joint Task Force (JTF) 505 and Reno, Nevada native, and Canadian Maj. Simon Comtois, a construction engineer with the Disaster Assistance Response Team, discuss the process to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of the soil at the Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 8, 2015. The team tested the soil using a dynamic cone penetrometer to determine its stability following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The pavement evaluation tested to see if there were any significant changes to the soil beneath the runway since the earthquake. Any changes could restrict weight limitations to incoming flights in order to prevent any runway damage. The Nepalese government requested the U.S. Government assistance after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country April 25. JTF-505 works in conjunction with USAID and the international community to provide unique capabilities to assist Nepal. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MCIPAC Combat Camera Staff Sgt. Jeffrey D. Anderson/Released)
Pictured: A Royal Navy pilot flies the Sea King around the moors.
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
On July 12, 2018, an oiled wildlife equipment deployment practice was held at Satsop Business Park in Elma, WA. The event was a test of the oil industry's ability to quickly respond should they have an oil spill that harmed wildlife. Participants included the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, federal agencies, and 28 oil companies that operate in Washington, plus their spill response contractors and wildlife rehab experts.
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!
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)
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.
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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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.
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)
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
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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.
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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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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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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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
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Richard Watt - 07836 515306
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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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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)
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.
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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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)
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)
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.
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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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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)
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 7, 2019) Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Xao Vue, from Warren, Michigan, brazes a steel pipe in the HT shop aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48). Ashland, part of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, with embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda)
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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)
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)