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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 4TH Battalion, 17TH Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas, engage enemy elements with their M4 carbines during Decisive Action Rotation 19-01 at the National Training by Operations Group, National Training Center

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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 4TH Battalion, 17TH Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas, engage enemy elements with their M4 carbines during Decisive Action Rotation 19-01 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Oct. 1, 2018. Decisive Action Rotations at the NTC ensure Army Brigade Combat Teams remain versatile, responsive, and consistently available for current and future contingencies. (U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Brooke Davis, Operations Group, National Training Center)

State Highway Junction Route CA-2 Westbound Santa Monica Blvd. approaches, proceeds and crosses at Palm Avenue PED XING - Pedestrian Crosswalk Crossings Mid-Block half-intersection traffic signal green lights on powered off and switched off by Raymond Yu

from flashing red lights modification controlled by LADOT - Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Special Traffic Operations, Transportation Traffic Management Plan and Program Contingency Engineers, City of West Hollywood with Los Angeles County Department Public Works, Transportation Engineering Services Bureau and Road Closures for Special Events Traffic Advisories Unit 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 in the City of Los Angeles and the City of West Hollywood Open Streets Bicycle Route followed by San Vicente Blvd. (Left Turn to West Hollywood Park and Pacific Design Center Public Parking Lots) intersection traffic signal, yellow, green lights plus left turn protected permissive yellow green lights (Left Turn Yield on Green signage), pedestrian crosswalk crossing don’t walk orange hand lights and white walking lights located at West Hollywood, California 90069.

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

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

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161006-F-CN368-070 by Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst

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)

2009-01-KL947-1546 by Colorado National Guard

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

Breach closure work in Long Island after Hurricane Sandy by USACE NY

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)

20Bde-2013-015-0082 by Part of 3rd (UK) Division - The British Army

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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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Photo credit to read - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

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20Bde-2013-024-0168 by Part of 3rd (UK) Division - The British Army

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Photographer - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTE TO DESKS:

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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Shane Wilkinson - 07901 590723

Al-Matar Mosque by Honest Abe!

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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.

woodcarver31 by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

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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NASA HQ selfie by Paulo O

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The Soace Ops Center at NASA HQ is a kind of mini-mission control room that can serve as a backup to the LCC and MCC at KSC and JSC in contingencies. There are little screens outside showing live ISS cams.

The Cost of Wars: Overseas Contingency Operations and Future Defense Spending by Stimson Center

The Stimson Center

Soldiers, professional fighters face off at UFC Tour clinic by The 4th Infantry Division

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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)

20Bde-2013-015-0082 by Part of 3rd (UK) Division - The British Army

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Photographer - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

Pictured - A British Warrior Armoured Infantry Fighting vehicle patrolling down the live firing range in Grafenwöhr (Germany)

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.

NOTE TO DESKS:

MoD release authorised handout images.

All images remain crown copyright.

Photo credit to read - Cpl Wes Calder RLC

Email: wescalder@mediaops.army.mod.uk

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Customs inspection by United States Forces Iraq

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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.

130805-Z-VT419-403 by Kentucky National Guard Public Affairs Office

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)

1MechBde-2014-016-0538 by Si Longworth Photography

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)

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150508-F-XN788-045 by PACAF

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)

Official Transfer by United States Forces Iraq

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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.

Mississippi armor company drives gun trucks, secures convoys by The National Guard

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

130805-Z-VT419-237 by Kentucky National Guard Public Affairs Office

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)

401st AFSB Soldiers receive end of tour awards by 401st_AFSB

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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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150504-F-XN788-055 by PACAF

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)

Contingency Plan by sarath prasanna

State Highway Junction Route CA-2 Westbound Santa Monica Blvd. approaches, proceeds and crosses at Hancock Avenue PED XING - Pedestrian Crosswalk Crossings Mid-Block half-intersection traffic signal flashing red lights powered off and switched off by Raymond Yu

modification controlled by LADOT - Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Special Traffic Operations, Transportation and Traffic Management Plan and Program Contingency Engineers, City of West Hollywood with Los Angeles County Department Public Works, Transportation Engineering Services Bureau and Road Closures for Special Events Traffic Advisories Unit 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 in the City of Los Angeles and the City of West Hollywood Open Streets Bicycle Route followed by Palm Avenue PED XING Mid-Block semi-intersection traffic signal green lights and it finally ends at San Vicente Blvd. (Left Turn to West Hollywood Park and Pacific Design Center Public Parking Lots) intersection traffic signal, yellow, green lights plus left turn protected permissive yellow green lights (Left Turn Yield on Green signage), pedestrian crosswalk crossing don’t walk orange hand lights and white walking lights located at Hancock Lofts in West Hollywood, California 90069.

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

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

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

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1MechBde-2014-016-0577 by Si Longworth Photography

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.

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

Marine provides security through tall grass by Marines

Marines with 1st Platoon, Echo Company (Co. E), Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines (BLT 2/7), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), provide security during an airfield seizure exercise, April 7. The MEU is currently conducting Realistic Urban Training Exercise (RUTEX). The exercise evaluates a Maritime Raid Force’s (MRF) ability to conduct maritime contingency operations.

G-HIJK by David Unsworth

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G-HIJK Met Office Contingency Aircraft / Do Systems Ltd Cessna 421C on display at Cosford 2017

A very friendly crew in charge.

c/n:- 421C-0218

Year built:- 1977

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A brief chat by United States Forces Iraq

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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 Divisionâ€™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 divisionâ€™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.

U.S. Army Africa Contingency Command Post conducts deployment exercise by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

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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roadsidemkt10 by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa