U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs (MRP) Ed Avalos speaks to participants 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.

Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group place a generator during camp build-up at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Ill., on Aug. 5, 2013, as part of Exercise Gateway Relief, a U.S. Transportation Command-directed earthquake-response scenario. The 123rd is joining forces with the U.S. Army’s active-duty 689th Rapid Port Opening Element from Fort Eustis, Va., to stand up and operate a Joint Task Force-Port Opening, which combines an Air Force Aerial Port of Debarkation with an Army trucking and distribution unit. The aerial port ensures the smooth flow of cargo and relief supplies into affected areas by airlift, while the trucking unit facilitates their final distribution over land. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer/Released)

Flatbed trucks carrying high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles are lined up and ready for departure on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Oct. 25.

Members of the 123rd Logistics Readiness Squadron load a pallet of cargo onto a North Carolina Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 10, 2023. The gear is being transported to the Northern Mariana Islands for Cope North, a multinational exercise designed to enhance combat readiness in the South Pacific. Fourteen Kentucky Air Guardsmen from the 123rd Contingency Response Group are providing air base-opening and cargo-handling capabilities for Cope North. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Phil Speck)

More than 30 members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing aboard a C-17 Globemaster III at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. wait for equipment to be loaded on before takeoff on their way to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in response to Hurricane Matthew, October 6, 2016. The CRW is supporting the government of Haiti's request for humanitarian assistance. Once on the ground, the CRW will provide assistance by facilitating the movement of humanitarian aid and cargo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Zachary Martyn/Released)

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

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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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Nepalese Army soldiers and 36th Contingency Response Group Airmen unload relief supplies from a Pakistan air force C-130 Hercules May 8, 2015, at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Nepalese Army and Airmen worked with military members from the Pakistan 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)

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 the Livestock Contingency Inspection Facility along the Mexican border in Douglas, AZ, during an event celebrating its completion on Sep. 25, 2014. USDA photo by Abby L. Fritz.

Crews work to move sand, freshly pumped from nearby Moriches Inlet, as part of post-Hurricane Sandy barrier island breach closure operations Monday November 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)

Air Force Staff Sgt. Ryan Hemenway, the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuel service center supervisor, completes the final part of the physical portion of the Forward Area Refueling Point (FARP) tryouts at Kadena Air Base, Japan, June 17, 2011. Though only five Air Force bases in the world have a FARP program, it is an essential component for military operations for both wartime contingencies and humanitarian aid. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Brooke P. Beers)

Soldiers from Alpha Company, 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division from Fort Hood, Texas, pack up their belongings after a customs inspection on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Oct. 28.

Gen. Ibrahim, the Mosul location commander and designated receiver of property turned over to the government, signs documentation which officially tranfers ownership of Contingency Operating Site Marez to the Government of Iraq. The signing took place Oct. 11, 2011 at an Iraqi compound located at Marez.

Aerial porters from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group load a pallet of red blood cells and frozen plasma onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Oct. 10, 2014, at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The aerial porters are part of Joint Task Force-Port Opening Sengal, an air cargo hub that’s funneling humanitarian supplies and equipment into West Africa in support of Operation United Assistance, the international effort to fight Ebola. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Meghan Donahue, a member of a fly-away security detail from the 435th Air Expeditionary Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, provides overwatch of a Ramstein C-130 Hercules aircraft as Air Force Senior Airman Alex Vincent, an aerial porter from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, prepares to load a pallet of red blood cells and frozen plasma on the aircraft Oct. 10, 2014, at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The Airmen are supporting Operation United Assistance, the international effort to fight Ebola in West Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)

Col. Paul E. Owen (right), commander of the New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stands with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens near a barrier island breach in Cupsogue County Park on Friday November 16, 2012 on Long Island. The breach was created by Hurricane Sandy. In the distance is a dredge in nearby Moriches Inlet that is mobilizing to close the breach using sand from the inlet. The breach closure work is being done in partnership with DEC and local authorities in accordance with the Breach Contingency Plan. Prior to the development of the BCP, breaches could take several months to close, but using the BCP the Cupsogue County Park breach is expected to closed in a matter of several weeks rather than months. (photo by Chris Gardner, New York District public affairs)

Photographer - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

Pictured - The AS90 self-propelled gun with its 155mm shells in the fore ground.

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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The mosque at Contingency Operating Site Diamondback, Iraq, is being renovated under the supervision of Regimental Fires Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary). The mosque will soon be operational for members of the Iraqi military to use.

Tech. Sgt. Carlos Sanders, 821st Contingency Response Group contracting officer, appears caked in dust after serving as an opposition force member during a field training exercise designed to hone perimeter security tactics, techniques and procedures at Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2016. The 821st CRG rapidly deployed personnel to open an airfield and establish air operations in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve to enable Iraqi security forces fighting ISIL. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jordan Castelan) www.dvidshub.net

Members of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group offload an all-terrain vehicle at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Ill., on Aug. 5, 2013, as part of Exercise Gateway Relief, a U.S. Transportation Command-directed earthquake-response scenario. The vehicle, which serves as a mobile command post, is equipped with satellite communications gear that allows a Joint Assessment Team to establish secure voice and data communications with USTRANSCOM officials upon landing at a non-functional airfield, reporting the status of facilities and the ability to support relief operations. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer/Released)

The Stimson Center

Fight night.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Spc. Alexander Quebedeaux, a petroleum supply specialist assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), bottom, grapples with Ultimate Fighting Championship star Kyle Kingsbury during a UFC Tour mixed martial arts workshop at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, Feb. 24, 2011. Kingsbury and UFC welterweight Mike Swick headlined the clinic, where the group answered questions from service members about fights, nutrition and fitness training. After signing autographs and posing for photos, Kingsbury and Swick invited the service members to test their skills and learn new techniques on the mat.

(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Shawn Miller, 109th MPAD, USD-N PAO)

Maj. Gen. David G. Perkins, commanding general, and Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Dailey, senior enlisted advisor, 4th Infantry Division, furl their “Ivy†colors during a color casing ceremony, Oct. 20, 2011, at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq. The Iron Horse leaders have been deployed to Speicher since last November and spent the last year advising and training Iraqi Security Forces while transitioning U.S. military installations in preparation of a Dec. 31 departure.

modification controlled by Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Special Traffic Operations, Transportation and Traffic Management Plan Contingency Engineers during the operation of the Homeboy Industries 5 km Run Race Course Route, and College Street intersection traffic signal green lights, left turn protected permissive green arrow lights and pedestrian crosswalk crossing white walking lights, the following intersections are Alpine Street, Ord Street and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue intersections have traffic signal red yellow green lights on located at Chinatown Los Angeles, California 90012.

Right hand side is the Chinatown Central Plaza Arch Pagoda Gate on the right.

The new current G.D.P. route travelled Southbound Broadway and made a left turn at East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDED at New High and Spring Streets for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2007 to February 2012 but now this Golden Dragon Parade route on Southbound Broadway turns right to Westbound Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDS at North Hill Street overpass bridge for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2013 to present.

The former G.D.P. route was on Northbound Broadway (ended here until 2000) from Cesar E. Chavez Avenue to Bernard Street and Southbound Hill Street at Ord Street took place here until 2006 then the new current G.D.P. route travelled Southbound Broadway and made a left turn at East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDED at New High and Spring Streets for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2007 to February 2012 but now this Golden Dragon Parade route on Southbound Broadway turns right to Westbound Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDS at North Hill Street overpass bridge for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2013 to present.

The Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 10k Run race route event combining 5k, 10k and Kiddie K run routes ENDS right here and meets at the finish line festival in Chinatown Los Angeles, California near the arch pagoda Chinatown Central Plaza - Quon Brothers Grand Star Jazz Club is on the right hand side.

This is where L.A. Chinatown Firecracker 10k run race route continues to Elysian Park uphill, Dodger Stadium, back to finish line.

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This is the 5k Run Race Route of the Homeboy - Homeboyle Industries Chinatown, Solano Canyon, Naud Industrial Junction and Outer Los Angeles State Historic Park.

這裡是5公里小家子 (家仔) 工業跑步比賽路線跑往洛杉磯華埠, 蘇蘭諾山峽谷, 諾德工業樞紐及外洛杉磯州立歷史公園區.

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Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commanding general of United States Forces-Iraq, speaks to a distinguished guest prior to the 4th Infantry Division’s color casing ceremony, Oct. 20, 2011 at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq. Austin was the reviewing officer for the ceremony, which represented the final chapter of the division’s yearlong deployment as United States Division-North. With their mission completed, the 4th Infantry Division will return to their home station at Fort Carson, Colo.

Staff Sgt. Pete Vicini, an intelligence analyst from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, sends encrypted mission updates to U.S. Transportation Command officials from MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Ill., on Aug. 5, 2013, as part of Exercise Gateway Relief, a U.S. Transportation Command-directed earthquake-response scenario. The 123rd is joining forces with the U.S. Army’s active-duty 689th Rapid Port Opening Element from Fort Eustis, Va., to stand up and operate a Joint Task Force-Port Opening, which combines an Air Force Aerial Port of Debarkation with an Army trucking and distribution unit. The aerial port ensures the smooth flow of cargo and relief supplies into affected areas by airlift, while the trucking unit facilitates their final distribution over land. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer/Released)

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

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

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

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

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

Ten Tors:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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U.S. Air Force Capt. Brint Ingersoll, 36th Contingency Response Group operations officer, guides an Airman using a forklift to move relief supplies from a Pakistan Air Force C-130 Hercules May 8, 2015, at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Nepalese Army and Airmen worked with military members from the Pakistan 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)

Fernando Corella Escalante, Sonora Cattlemen’s Union area director, speaks to stakeholders 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.

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

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A 734th Air Mobility Squadron Airman loads 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)

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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Nepalese Army soldiers and 36th Contingency Response Group Airmen move relief supplies delivered by the Pakistan Air Force May 8, 2015, at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Nepalese Army and U.S. Air Force Airmen worked with military members from the Pakistan 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)

Sgt. Maurice Enright, the U.S. Army Africa Contingency Command Post senior computer local area network manager assembles components to a satellite dish. . (U.S. Army Africa photo by Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson)

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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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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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MoD release authorised handout images.

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

Email: simonlongworth@mediaops.army.mod.uk

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Si Longworth - 07414 191994

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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 followed by Main Street crossing points open to cross traffic for automobiles intersection traffic signal red green lights, left turn protected permissive green yellow red arrow lights, left turn yield on flashing yellow arrow lights, pedestrian crosswalk crossing don't walk orange hand lights and white walking lights, Broadway Place and South Broadway intersections traffic signal red lights again located at South Los Angeles, California 90011.

(Los Angeles Police Department Newton Division Patrol Station Number 13, LAPD Central Traffic Division Station Number 24, 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)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Edward Reid, with the 36th Contingency Response Group, Joint Task Force (JTF) 505 and Hampton, Virginia native, collects measurements used 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)

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Eric Morris, 36th Mobility Response Squadron ramp coordinator, labels fuel containers during cargo processing May 1, 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 and will join U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development led humanitarian and disaster relief operations in support of the Government and Armed Forces of Nepal. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa White/Released)

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

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

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

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

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

Ten Tors:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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36th Contingency Response Group Airmen process relief supplies from a Bangladesh Air Force C-130 Hercules 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)

Soldiers fire Paladins.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – “Black Dragons,” 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, fire M109A6 Paladins during a certification exercise, March 16, 2011. The “Red Leg” Soldiers of 5th Bn., 82nd FA Regt., “Black Dragons,” fired M109A6 Paladins, launching 155 mm high-explosive rounds from a firing point at Destiny Range. The firing teams renewed certification on the indirect-fire support weapon prior to the combined arms live fire exercise conducted with Iraqi Security Forces the following day.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Terence Ewings, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

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)

Master Sgt. Paul Edwards (right), a cybertransport supervisor with the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, helps Tech. Sgt. Kyle Goins, a 123rd communications specialist, assemble a satellite communications antenna at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Ill., on Aug. 5, 2013, as part of Exercise Gateway Relief, a U.S. Transportation Command-directed earthquake-response scenario. The 123rd is joining forces with the U.S. Army’s active-duty 689th Rapid Port Opening Element from Fort Eustis, Va., to stand up and operate a Joint Task Force-Port Opening, which combines an Air Force Aerial Port of Debarkation with an Army trucking and distribution unit. The aerial port ensures the smooth flow of cargo and relief supplies into affected areas by airlift, while the trucking unit facilitates their final distribution over land. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer/Released)

Initiating the assault..CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 11th Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division, assault an objective during a live fire exercise at Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center, Feb. 24, 2011. Soldiers assigned to Troop A, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, conducted collective training at GWTC to enhance Iraqi soldiers’ light infantry skills during Tadreeb al Shamil, Arabic for All Inclusive Training. U.S. forces in northern Iraq led individual and collective infantry training for Iraqi soldiers and units from squad to battalion-level tasks during the 25-day Iraqi military training program at GWTC..(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Washington, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N).

With the remaining Decepticon forces splintered, General Strika enacted a contingency plan put in place by Megatron. Carrying a back up of the deposed leader’s core consciousness, Quickstrike tracked down Blackarachnia and presented her with a proposition: create a powerful new body for the resurrected Megatron and raise a technorganic army for him to lead, and he would use his ship to rescue the spider from her primitive exile. Ostensibly agreeing, Blackarachnia had no intention of giving up control of the growing Predacon forces. Using designs conceived by Megatron himself while on Earth, she crafted a suitable form, but put a shell program in place severely limiting the new Megatron’s intelligence and instilling unquestioning loyalty to her.

Unbeknownst to the technorganic queen, Megatron’s core consciousness was able to override the shell program almost immediately. Dubbing himself Galvatron and declaring himself superior to his predecessor, he chose to bide his time, pretending to be a simpleminded buffoon while subtly manipulating events to suit his purpose. With all of the cunning and charisma of the original Megatron coupled with a technorganic’s instinct and a flair for the dramatic solely his own, that purpose may well spell doom for the entire galaxy.

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Props so massive they have their own gravity go out to Nemesis Predaking for not only pioneering this mod, but posting a video explaining it in detail here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJE3TiOZgvw . The short version is that magnets allow me to attach either a regular hand or the T-rex head to his right wrist, while the latter can still store on his back.

36th Contingency Response Group Airmen work with Bangladesh Air Force members to remove cargo from their C-130 Hercules 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)

Arizona Congressman Ron Barber 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.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Clark Morgan, center, contingency engineer flight commander with the 36th Contingency Response Group, Joint Task Force (JTF) 505 and Reno, Nevada native; Canadian Maj. Simon Comtois, right, a construction engineer with the Disaster Assistance Response Team; and Kumar Shresthna, a Nepalese civil engineer with the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal 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 is working in conjunction with USAID and the international community to assist Nepal. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by MCIPAC Combat Camera Staff Sgt. Jeffrey D. Anderson/Released)