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Soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard's 63rd Theater Aviation Brigade participates in Exercise Vibrant Response at training areas in southern Indiana, July, 2013. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Daniel VanHorn)
The 749th Ordnance Company (EOD), 242nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD) under the 71st Ordnance Group, conducted joint training with the 8th Civil Support Team and local law enforcement in Denver, Colo. March 14, 2013. The training took place in the basement of the Cherry Creek Mall in Denver. EOD response teams from that unit do similar training quarterly with the Pueblo Chemical Depot. Here, before training begins, Sgt. Bryan Fox, puts in place a simulated Improvised Explosive Device, or IED, for the joint civil support team training event.
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. -- Airmen from the 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron at Langley extracts Capt. Jamie Mun, 94th Fighter Squadron pilot, after responding to a simulated-alert here Dec. 12, 2012. This alert was part of the phase I combined unit exercise to prepare Airmen for the possibility of a real alert. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Kimberly Nagle)
INDIAN ISLAND, Wash. (June 8, 2016) Sailors from Beach Master Unit 1 remove a conex box from a floating causeway during the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) exercise. JLOTS is the process by which rolling stock and containers of military cargo are moved from ship to shore without the benefit of a port. The exercise is also part of the operation Cascadia Rising, an emergency preparation operation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles D. Gaddis IV/Released)
Partner nation Coast Guard boats prepare to get underway for training as part of Tradewinds 2016 in St. George's, Grenada, June 6, 2016. Tradewinds 2016 is a joint combined exercise conducted in conjunction with partner nations to enhance the collective abilities of defense forces and constabularies to counter transnational organized crime and to conduct humanitarian/disaster relief operations. Royal Bahamas Defense Force photo by Marine Seaman Michael Turner
Danish soldiers from NATO Multinational Brigade Latvia hold a defensive position during Exercise RESOLUTE WARRIOR at Military Base Ādaži Training Area, Latvia, on 05 November 2024.
Photo Credit: Corporal Marc-André Leclerc, NATO Multinational Brigade Latvia Imagery
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Des soldats danois de la Brigade multinationale de l’OTAN en Lettonie sont en position défensive au cours de l’exercice RESOLUTE WARRIOR, dans le secteur d’entraînement de la base militaire Ādaži, en Lettonie, le 5 novembre 2024.
Photo : Caporal Marc-André Leclerc, Imagerie de la Brigade multinationale de l’OTAN en Lettonie
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Lt. Cmdr. Philipp Lines, assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35, Detachment 3, right, speaks with members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force during a tour of the littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) as part of 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)
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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."
(Left) Commander Meghan Coates, Commanding Officer (CO) of His Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Vancouver, Lieutenant Commander Jordan Thwaites, Executive Officer (XO) and Sub-Lieutenant (SLt) Miller wave while participating in a passing exercise during Exercise SAMA SAMA in the Philippine Sea on 9 October 2023.
Photo credit: Corporal Alisa Strelley, Canadian Armed Forces Photo.
(À partir de la gauche) La capitaine de frégate Meghan Coates, commandante du Navire canadien de Sa Majesté (NCSM) Vancouver, le capitaine de corvette Jordan Thwaites, commandant en second, et l’enseigne de vaisseau de 1re classe (Ens 1) Miller envoient la main lors de leur participation à un exercice de passage au cours de l’exercice SAMA SAMA, dans la mer des Philippines, le 9 octobre 2023.
Photo : Caporale Alisa Strelley, Forces armées canadiennes
A Royal Navy sailor sits at her console in the operations room of the Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland during NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2018 on October 26, 2018. The heart of any modern warship the Ops Room is where the sensors and links with other warships and aircraft are coordinated to give a picture of what is happening in the air, on the surface and sub surface. Excercise Trident Juncture 18 (TRJE18) is the flagship collective defence exercise for NATO and is the biggest in 2018. The Exercise will take place from 25th October until the 7th November.
U.S. Marines and Sailors with 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, participate in a tour of the capabilities of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois utility helicopter given by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Soldiers with 5th Brigade, during exercise Northern Viper on Yausubetsu Training Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Jan. 26, 2020. Personnel currently assigned to the Logistics Command Element for exercise Northern Viper train in austere environments to prepare units for all weather conditions. Northern Viper is a regularly scheduled training exercise that is designed to enhance the interoperability of the U.S. and Japan Alliance by allowing Marine Air-Ground Task Forces from III Marine Expeditionary Force to maintain their lethality and proficiency in MAGTF Combined Arms Operations in cold weather environments. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Courtney A. Robertson)
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1st Lt. Joan DeVoss, a nurse from Lake City, Michigan, fills thermometer container with alcohol in Ward 3 at the 64th Field Hospital, Tanacross, Alaska.
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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."
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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."
Students and staff from Hartlepool College of Further Education played a major part in one of the largest emergency services training exercises to be held in the north east for many years.
Exercise “Sandpiper” was designed to test the response of police, ambulance and fire services in the event of an “active shooter” scenario, where public safety is endangered by a gunman or gunmen. Although such incidents have recently been highlighted by events in Australia and France, Sandpiper was actually conceived over a year ago
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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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After a ten day work-up on-board HMS Illustrious around the Cornish coast, the Merlin Carrier Air Group (MCAG) prepare to “Go Deep” as they sail westwards out into the Atlantic in pursuit of Submarines.
Exercise Deep Blue has so far seen the Merlin Mk 2s from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose put through their paces in the South West Approaches, exercising and practicing before they get a sniff at a live target.
That will come as they move westwards where they expect to find UK and Dutch submarines trying to penetrate their tight anti-submarine shield around HMS Illustrious and the two Type 23 Frigates who are joining the Task Group for the exercise.
“We have nine Merlins Mk 2s onboard,” said Commander Ross Spooner, CO of 820 NAS and Commander of the MCAG. “What we anticipate to deliver throughout this exercise is protection for the Fleet. Three aircraft will be in the air at any one time, two of them on station 24 hours a day.”
The role of the Merlins is to keep the Submarines away from the Carrier. High tech sonobouys are dropped in the water at intervals to form a barrier or screen to detect the enemy.
The aircraft also has a dipping sonar to “Ping” a signal out and listen to returns should a adversary get near to the Task Group. Torpedoes and Depth Charges can then be deployed to persecute and destroy the targets.
Aircrews and Engineers work to punishing schedules to keep the momentum up. Pilots, Observers and Aircrewmen work a “Sleep – Eat – Fly – Sleep” rotation, constantly planning the next stage of the routine with little concept of the 24 hour clock.
Engineers work an eight hour watch system that allows them to carry out maintenance on the Merlins which are not in the air or waiting to go onto the flying programme, either on deck or in the Ship’s large but crowded hangar.
“The primary role of the Merlin is ASW,” (Anti-Submarine Warfare) said Lieutenant Alex Best, an Observer with 820 NAS. “Upgrades to technology on-board have made this a phenomenal aircraft that is the best Sub Hunter in the world.”
All this is a hair’s breadth away to when HMS Queen Elizabeth begins operating with the Fleet and the skills and routines practiced today will be vital to the ship’s defence.
“The day to day business of ASW is something we have always practiced,” continued CDR Ross Spooner.
“What we are doing here is refreshing the pace and tempo, getting ourselves back onto the deck with large numbers of aircraft and large numbers of people, making sure we can maintain those 24/7 operations.”
Press Release, June 17, 2014; Image: UK Navy
A small boat from USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) rests on the side of a cutter as a crew prepares to board as part of a drill during Exercise Argus, Nuuk, Greenland, June 16, 2023. Exercise Argus is a joint search and rescue and marine environmental response exercise that includes assets from the United States, Denmark, Greenland, and France. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Schultz)
U.S Air Force Senior Airman Daniel Seese and Staff Sgt. Drew Achtermann, flightline avionics assigned to 140th Aircraft Maintence Squadron troubleshoots the flight control system during exercise Northern Lightning, August 11, 2021. Northern Lightning is a full-spectrum Counterland training exercise hosted at Volk Field Air National Guard Base. The goal of the exercise is to provide a tailored, cost effective and realistic combat training for the Department of Defense Total Force. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman Mira Roman)
A team from the Special Operations Group conducted a readiness exercise at the Special Operations Forces Training and Experimentation Facility (SOFTEF) at Stafford Military Range.
In addition to CQB training, the team also trained in tactical care with a simulated casualty.
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Megan Braze of Hillsboro, Oregon along with her dog Atticus recover in a medical holding area as victims of a mass casualty event are treated for injuries during Pathfinder Exercise 2019, June 14, 2019, held at Camp Rilea at Warrenton, Oregon. Pathfinder is an interagency disaster response event, designed to train and exercise military and civilian response capabilities in the wake of a Cascadia Subduction Zone catastrophe in the Pacific Northwest region. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. John Hughel, 142nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs)
Task Force Saber was out in full force with 1st Battalion, 25th Infantry Brigade, Hungarian Defense Forces Oct. 15-16, 2015 conducting a combined live fire exercise at Bakony Combat Training Centre, Veszprem, Hungary. The two armies are wrapping up Exercise Brave Warrior, a month long training exercise that enhanced interoperability, increased operational readiness and strengthened allied relationships. (Photo by: Staff Sgt. Jennifer Bunn)