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THE biggest live exercise of its kind ever held in Greater Manchester – Exercise Triton II – came to an end this morning (Friday, July 16, 2016) after months of intense planning.
Around 36 organisations across the region and nationally have been taking part in this major emergency planning exercise which saw dozens of emergency vehicles at sites across Greater Manchester and Chinook helicopters flying across the skies.
The complex scenario used was designed to test how local authorities, emergency services and other partners are equipped to tackle a major emergency working together.
Participating ‘players’ also included the military, government, health and utility companies, as well as voluntary agencies.
The exercise started on Monday, July 11, 2016, with ‘warnings’ from the Met Office regarding adverse weather and from the Environment Agency about the growing risk of regional flooding.
The emergency services, including Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), and partners put procedures in place to ensure that where possible properties and critical infrastructure were protected and the public were warned. This theme was carried on through Tuesday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
To ensure that both players and plans were tested to their full, a dramatic scenario developed on Thursday, July 14, whereby the bank on the Dove Stone Reservoir in Oldham was breached and water cascaded through a number of boroughs within Greater Manchester.
This meant that evacuation procedures had to be put in place and rest centres set up. Later in the day, a coach ploughed into the River Tame in a mock crash and a full-scale search and rescue operation was carried out.
Paul Argyle, GMFRS’ Deputy County Fire Officer and Chair of Greater Manchester Resilience Forum, said: “Exercise Triton II was a hugely complex emergency planning exercise and I would like to thank all of the agencies that have taken part this week.
"This was a very detailed scenario which had impacts across every part of the region and necessitated a full range of partners taking part.
"The scale of the destruction and chaos in the exercise was deliberately designed to test the region at full stretch.
"We have to do this to ensure we are well prepared to deal with any future real-life event or disaster that might occur – and it is also invaluable that those taking part got the chance to practise essential response skills that would be used during a major incident like this.
"I would particularly like to thank all the volunteers who took part in this exercise. The patience and understanding of local residents and communities on Thursday (as response plans went into effect at 'live' sites) was also greatly appreciated.
“All players have now been 'stood down'. Our next task is to evaluate how the exercise went, step by step. We will want to find out what worked well and crucially to identify and learn any lessons that could help us in the future in real-life situations. I would like to point out that incidents as extreme as this are highly unlikely, but ensuring we practice our response means that we are ready to respond to a variety of scenarios."
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Exercise Great Bear
General view of the 64th Field Hospital from rear with Wards 3 and 4 and the mess hall at at Tanacross, Alaska.
21 Jan 62
Photo by SP4 Jerry Dickens
Support Command Photo Facility
Fort Richardson
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"EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE" a frequently said, heard, and seen phrase by the devolution emergency response group personnel such as Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Support Services Lead Ralph Garcia during Eagle Horizon, a mandatory, annual, integrated continuity exercise for all federal executive branch departments and agencies, to include USDA Departmental Management (DM) Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Coordination (OHSEC), as required by National Continuity Policy, Kansas City, Mo., on Monday, May 16, 2016. The phrase is required to prevent miscommunications with personnel participating in locations in throughout the nation and from exercise controllers. The Eagle Horizon series of exercises allows the executive branch to implement integrated, overlapping national continuity concepts in order to ensure the preservation of our government and the continuing performance of essential functions. These services provided by governments at all levels and the private sector affect the everyday lives of citizens and customers. In 2001, the Homeland Security office was created as a response to the tragedy that struck the Nation on September 11 of that year. In 2010, OHSEC was formed out of a merger between Homeland Security and the USDA Office of Security Services (OSS) to create a more efficient and effective organization. USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.
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Exercise Great Bear
Veiw of a microwave antenna tower at the Mohawk CP area at Fort Greely, Alaska. It is used by 362nd Signal Company from Fort Gordon, Georgia, who are participating in the maneuver.
7 Feb 62
Photo by Sp4 Paul DeNucce
Support Command Photo Facility
Fort Richardson
AT465
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Exercise Great Bear
A Nodwell trailer loaded with a generator (PU 286 5KW) at USARAL Signal bivouac area, Fort Greely, Alaska. The trailers are being used in the maneuver.
7 Feb 62
Photo by Sp4 Paul DeNucce
Support Command Pict Br
Fort Richardson
AT465
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Sailors assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35, Detachment 3, prepare for a presentation for Sailors from of the Indian Navy and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force as part of a Helicopter and Shipborne Unmanned Ariel Vehicle Professional Exchange aboard the littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) during Exercise Malabar. Currently on a 16-month rotational deployment in support of the Indo-Asia-Pacific Rebalance, Fort Worth is a fast and agile warship tailor-made to patrol the region’s littorals and work hull-to-hull with partner navies, providing 7th Fleet with the flexible capabilities it needs now and in the future. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joe Bishop/Released)
DRAPER, Utah - ‘Pilot down’ was the call to action as two F-16 Fighting Falcons, two AH-64 Apaches, two UH-60 Blackhawks, and a KC-135 Stratotanker roared for takeoff during the ’Lone Survivor’ joint training exercise conducted Utah’s West Desert April 12.
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Exercise Timberline
Moving through the brush and into the attack is a M-41 tank from the Recon Plt, Combat Support Company. In the Maneuver Timberline, held in northern Alaska.
20 Feb 63
by PFC Dave Young
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
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STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR (March 31, 2015) – Personnel Specialist Seaman Corbette Sam, from Rocky Ridge, Arizona, watches from the catwalks of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Vicksburg (CG 69) and TR pass through the Strait of Gibraltar March 31, 2015. Theodore Roosevelt deployed from Norfolk and will execute a homeport shift to San Diego at the conclusion of deployment. Theodore Roosevelt is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kris R. Lindstrom/Released)
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Exercise Great Bear
[NO CUTLINE IN BOOK.] This seems to be an American colonel greeting members of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry upon their arrival at Tanacross.
29 Jan 62
Photo by Sgt. Charles Shaw
Support Command Photo Facility
Fort Richardson
AT465
New lens means tests shots. This was a test shot using the Canon 100mm f2.8 L IS USM. So far i'm loving it.
SLUNJ TRAINING AREA, Croatia – Observer Controller, Sgt. 1st Class Marc Turner from U.S. Army Europe’s Joint Multinational Training Command speaks to soldiers from the Alabamian Land Forces as they conduct an after action review during Immediate Response 2012 here, May 28, 2012. Immediate Response 2012 is a multinational tactical field training exercise that will involve more than 700 personnel primarily from the U.S. Army Europe’s 2nd Calvary Regiment and Croatian armed forces, with contingents from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia will send observers to the exercise. The exercise is a part of USEUCOM's joint training and exercise program designed to enhance joint and combined interoperability between the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Croatian Armed Forces and partner nations, and will help prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, interagency, integrated environment. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jose Ibarra)/released
Colonel Toomas Vali, the Estonian Defence League's Tallinn District Commander at one of Tallinn's reception centres as part of Exercise Siil (Hedgehog), 04 May 2018. NATO photo by SSgt Dan Bardsley GBRA OR7
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Exercise Timberline
As the Aggressors round up their prisoners after the attack under the guns of their armor from Recon Plt. Combat Spt. Co. and B. Co. 4th BG, 23rd Inf.
20 Feb 63
by PFC Dave Young
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
AP72
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Exercise Great Bear
Men of the 2nd BG, 60th Inf., Fort Devens, Massachussetts, deplane after landing at the Northway airstrip. They will be carried to the Tanacross maneuver area by 2 1/2 ton PCs.
25 Jan 62
Photo by SP4 Jerry Dickens
Support Command Photo Facility
Fort Richardson
AT465
CAMP MUJUK, POHANG, Republic Of Korea – Pfc. Ryan Morrow, a refrigeration mechanic with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force connects a hose to a generator for the Tactical Air Command Center (TACC) that will be used for Exercise Key Resolve here Feb. 19. Marines participate in the embarking process, which includes setting up tents, shoveling snow, unloading and moving equipment in preparation for Exercise Key Resolve. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Michael Iams/Released)
For this exercise I decided to use an outline I generated based on a photograph of a lotus that I took last month. For anyone in the group who wants to do the same, I used a free online sketch generator at this URL: sporkforge.com/imaging/sketch.php
You have to fiddle with the settings a bit to get more of an outline, but if you keep the resolution and the threshold high it should work. The best images to use should have strongly defined lines without a lot of details or visual clutter.
It was 29°F and these guys decided it was a nice day for a swim. When they got out of the water, they looked like big red penguins. (L) Lt. Donald Simms, (R) Todd Bowen
This 1053x723 pixel image is 6% of the original 12.2 MP image.
Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Lens: Nikkor 70-300 VR
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Members from 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment advance toward contact during a live fire exercise during the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise at Camp Pendleton, July 6, 2018.
Photo: Ordinary Seaman Justin Spinello, 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta
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The United States 7th Fleet Band performs for the crowd during the Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011 Open Day.
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Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011 has formally kicked off with a public Open Day at the Rockhampton Showground. The Open Day saw the 1RAR Band and Australian Federation Guard perform alongside the US 7th Fleet Band, demonstrating the interoperability of the two military forces that Exercise Talisman Sabre aims to strengthen. The Open Day also showcased a wide array of static displays from Australian and US participants as well as other Australian Government agencies such as AusAID the Australian Federal Police, the Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence and the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service. More than 22,000 Australian and US personnel will participate in Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011, which will see personnel and assets from the Australian and US Navy, Army and Air force as well as the US Marines training in six Defence training areas in Central and Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory, with maritime forces exercising in the Coral, Timor and Arafura Seas.
Photograph by: Corporal (CPL) Janine Fabre
1st Joint Public Affairs Unit
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Exercise Timberline
The 54th Eng. convoy departs from Gate #3 Fort Richardson, Alaska enroute to the TIMBER LINE maneuver area.
24 Jan 63
by Sp4 Kenneth Puckett
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
AP72
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Exercise Great Bear
Scene of a tent fire which caused two casualties at the 712th Engineer Co. in the base camp, Tanacross, Alaska.
5 Feb 62
Photo by Sp4 Halford
CONUS Photo Fac
Fort Devens, Mass
AT465
1st MSC hosts mobilization readiness exercise
Camp Santiago, Salinas: Soldiers of the 1st Mission Support Command's Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment hosted a mobilization readiness exercise at Camp Santiago, P.R., 14-27 March.
During the event, HHD Soldiers completed readiness checks for over 1,000 Soldiers. Events such as this are commonly held annually to ensure that commanders can maintain their unit readiness.
"We try to do this as the units get closer to their available year in order to have them improve their overall readiness and mobilization posture in the event they get selected (for mobilization) down the road", said Gerardo Rodriguez, mobilization officer for the 1st MSC.
Rodriguez said MRXs help units maintain readiness for deployments but they also serve the individual Soldier.
"As part of the MRX ... there are different stations and one of them, one of the most important, is medical. A Soldier is completely checked and whatever cannot be fixed at this location ... the Soldier can go to a private (medical) provider and get that situation fixed and that helps them with their overall readiness",he said.
Soldiers rotate through eleven different stations in total where they are checked in by HHD Soldiers and efficiently move through the station. While the process has been refined over the years at times people still tend to get impatient.
Staff Sgt. Anaselly Ramos, logistics noncommissioned officer with the mobilization team, know the experience can be stressful but to help keep the level of frustration down she leads groups of Soldiers through stations when she sees openings. While each group of Soldiers is instructed to follow the schedule given to them for the MRX, Ramos' method keeps things moving along too.
Keeping track of the entire flow of Soldier traffic is a system called the mobilization plan data viewer.
"It shows all the stations and actually it runs the SRP (MRX) completely", said Spc. Hector Rodriguez, from Bayamon.
"It's tracking each Soldier by station ... you can see how many have completed (the stations) and how many have not",added Rodriguez, who is assigned to the 311th Quartermaster Company.
While the process can be tedious for the Soldiers going from station to station, one Soldier working at the medical readiness station found the MRX to be an opportunity to challenge herself by practicing her public speaking skills.
Spc. Jenniffer Gonzalez Diaz, a traffic management coordinator, who's primary language is Spanish, began giving the medical station briefings to many groups of Soldiers. Gonzalez admits that speaking English is not one of her strengths but her determination brought her recognition among her peers and even the Commanding General of the 1st MSC Brig. Gen. Fernando Fernandez.
"They gave me the opportunity to participate in this activity so I can ... help them in the system with the Soldiers, and I practiced a lot my English",said Gonzalez.
As a member of the the 390th Seaport Company, in Ceiba, Gonzalez recognizes the importance of refining her English language skills. When given the opportunity to refine her abilities when she signed up for the Army, Gonzalez participated in English language courses.
"I improved my English, I practiced my English when I took the class but I knew a little bit of the language because we are Puerto Rico and we are bilingual so we took classes when we started in (grade) school", said Gonzalez.
Gonzalez knows this isn't the only challenge she'll have to overcome in her military career, which is why she stays motivated and maintains a positive attitude.
"The important thing for me is to show people that you are trying, don't get upset, don't get mad if someone corrects you because they are helping you",she said. "If you don't know, ask, so you can learn ... the stuff you learn nobody can take away."