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En2015-0096
Sergeant Sheldon Hawman a member of the support staff for Exercise SPARTAN STRIKE relaxes while waiting for the arrival of the Chinook Helicopters.
Exercise SPARTAN STRIKE was an air assault and mountain training exercise involving soldiers from 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Charlie Company (C Coy) air support from 450/410 Tactical Helicopter Squadron and support staff from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group. Soldiers from C Coy traveled over 46 Kilometers in mountainous terrain in a 4 day period. Exercise SPARTAN STRIKE took place from 3 to 11 May 2015 near Nordegg, Alberta, in the Rocky Mountains.
Photography by Robert Schwartz
3 CDSB Edmonton
Le sergent Sheldon Hawman, membre du personnel de soutien pour l’exercice SPARTAN STRIKE, se détend en attendant l’arrivée des hélicoptères Chinook.
SPARTAN STRIKE était un exercice d’assaut aérien et d’entraînement en montagne auquel participaient des militaires du 3e Bataillon, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, l’appui aérien de la compagnie Charlie (Cie C) du 450e et 410e Escadron tactique d’hélicoptères et le personnel de soutien du 1er Groupe-brigade mécanisé du Canada. Les militaires de la Cie C ont parcouru plus de 46 kilomètres en terrain montagneux sur une période de quatre jours. L’exercice SPARTAN STRIKE s’est déroulé du 3 au 11 mai 2015, près de Nordegg, en Alberta, dans les montagnes Rocheuses.
Photo : Robert Schwartz
3 BS 3 Div CA, Edmonton
#19. Special senate election in MA today to "replace" Ted Kennedy. Let's hope Scott Brown can do the job...
Emergency Services exercise at Barton Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal.
November 2004.
Fire services and Ambulance service respond to an aircraft crashing and hitting a shipping vessel on the canal.
Barton Aerodrome Fire & Rescue Service. (now City Airport)
Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service.
North West Ambulance Service & EMAT team.
Col. Mike Hudson, commander of the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., speaks to Airmen before the start of a Phase II Operational Readiness Exercise Feb. 8, 2013. The 169th FW is training for an upcoming Operational Readiness Inspection later this year.
(National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Caycee Watson/Released)
Off the ground photo at 1/60. I especially like how her feet are higher off the ground and you can see the space between her feet and the grass.
Comparing this photo to the next photo at 1/250, there is much more blurring due to the lower setting. The blurring is noticeable on the left arms, the edges of her legs as well as the shoes, and even the background track and bench.
The inspiration for this is from the Shutter Speed Examples shown in class, especially the train, cyclist, and windup toy action figure.
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Burwash, On, Canada.
24 November 2012.
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Soldiers from 33 Canadian Brigade Group Prepare them kit for exercise NORTHERN ALLIANCE. .
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Exercise NORTHERN ALLIANCE is an infantry dismounted offensive training event taking place in Burwash ON., 23-25 November 2012, which is focusing on battle task standards individual soldier skills, planning procedures and command post drills. Approximately 200 soldiers from across The Algonquin Regiment (Alg R), The 2nd Battalion Irish Regiment of Canada (2IR RC), and The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (RHLI) are conducting joint operations while members of The 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (3RCR) act as opposing forces during the exercise which will conclude with a culminating joint operation at company level. .
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The units involved in this exercise are spread across 31 and 33 Canadian Brigade Group as well as 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group. .
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Photographer : Pte Ariane Montambeault.
DND-MDN
Liverpool PCT and Liverpool City Council funded exercise equipment in parks, which is specifically designed to help people over the age of 50 become more active
Crew members aboard HMCS BRANDON prepare to lower an underwater self-propelled drone used to conduct surface scans of the ocean floor in the area of Juneau, Alaska during Exercise ARCTIC EDGE 2022 on March 8, 2022.
Please credit: Master Sailor Dan Bard Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Canadian Armed Forces photo
ARC2536/AR63 ALASKA
Exercise Timberline
Aerial photo of the General Support Group located near the Maneuver Director Headquarters on Fort Greely, Alaska.
19 Feb 63
by Sp4 Kenneth Puckett
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
AP72
Lieutenant-General Hainse the Commander of the Canadian Army congratulates the participants of the mounted platoon attack demonstration, 1st Royal Canadian Regiment, for all their efforts..
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Photo: Corporal D. Salisbury.
PA2013-0133-114
ARC235/AR62 ALASKA
Exercise Great Bear
Members of the 7th Special Forces Group drag an Akhio from the Alaska Air National Guard C-123 transport that flew them to Bethel, Alaska. The equipment laden sled was transferred to an Army aircraft and ferried to an Eskimo village.
27 Jan 62
Photo by SP5 H.J. Hamilton
USARAL Information Office
AT465
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service's first training exercise on board a ship has been hailed a success.
Crews from around the county were called to Wisbech Port on Wednesday evening (Oct 19) for a simulated fire in the engine room of a 3,000 tonne Russian ship, with casualties and persons overboard.
The Incident Command Unit from Huntingdon attended along with crews from Wisbech and Huntingdon. Crews from Dogsthorpe with specialist in-water training also attended, together with two crews from Outwell and West Walton in Norfolk.
Twenty-five firefighters had to locate and gain access to the ship’s engine room where the fire was located and carry out a search and rescue of all on-board casualties and extinguish all fires.
Dogsthorpe firefighters wearing drysuits used an inflatable boat to locate and rescue three casualties in the water, working alongside two crews from Fenland District Council’s Harbour Authority, who also had three members of staff shoreside, including Harbour Master Jamie Hemming and a representative from Fenland District Council’s Health and Safety Department.
Exercise Poseidon, as it was referred to throughout the exercise, saw dummies thrown into the water some distance from the ship, which was moored at the harbour in Nene Parade, close to the town centre.
Hazards faced by the crews included narrow passageways, trip hazards with ropes and a potential to fall in the water.
On-board operations took place in dark, narrow passageways with one room filled with smoke. Firefighters searching for bodies in the River Nene worked in night-time conditions.
Although Wisbech firefighters have attended a fire on board a ship before, it was over the border in Norfolk.
Wednesday night’s Exercise Poseidon, however, was Cambridgeshire’s first in-county training exercise on board a ship.
Watch Commander Phil Pilbeam, from Wisbech Station, spent eight weeks planning the event with Crew Commander Tim Carr.
“I’m really pleased with how things went. It all went really smoothly.”
He said the exercise provided a unique opportunity for firefighters to train on board a ship.
"Firefighters in Cambridgeshire are well trained and knowledgeable in house fires, factory fires and Road Traffic Collisions etc. However, a ship fire is unique. It's in a confined space, it's made of metal and it's a lot hotter because it's a metal container.
"Ships have an unfamiliar layout to crews. They can be very complex in their layout and this was a unique opportunity for all the crews to attend and to put these different skills into practice."
WC Pilbeam said the exercise had raised some good learning points.
“The inflatable boat from Dogsthorpe was not powerful enough for a tidal area. It was fine going with the tide but not against it. It had to be towed by the two boats from the Harbour Authority.
“Also, the crew set up lots of hose reels to help us out but we couldn’t use them because the couplings didn’t fit ours so we will be talking to the Harbour Master and our Operational Support Group to bring in some specialist hose reels for the harbour.”
He said communication with the nine-strong Russian crew on board the ship, had proved challenging.
“There were definitely language barriers that were an issue. We would ask what we wanted to get across and they would try and put across what they wanted. There were lots of hand signals and lots of pointing and gesturing.”
Despite some of the difficulties faced, he said the whole exercise, from time of call-out to when the crews returned to their stations, took three hours, which was what he had expected.
Harbour Master Jamie Hemming, of Fenland District Council, said with about forty cargo ships arriving at Wisbech Port each year there was a ‘real chance’ of a fire on board a ship so training exercises like this were really helpful.
“There’s a real chance of fire on board a ship. We are the only Port in Cambridgeshire so for Wisbech it is a serious scenario so from that point of view it was good to see the guys working on something a little bit out of their comfort zone.
“The joint exercise went extremely well and it was reassuring for us as a Harbour Authority to see the whole thing co-ordinated in such a professional and timely manner. It will stand us all in good stead should a similar real incident occur.”
Jamie said the Harbour Authority was keen to see more training exercises on board ships in the future.
“I would like to see another training exercise on board a ship at least once or twice a year as it’s a very proactive approach.”
The majority of boats coming into Wisbech arrive from the Baltics carrying timber and leave with scrap metal for Spain.
Got a Nautilus elliptical trainer today. I am so excited, as the stairclimber doesn't feel like a good workout. This sucker is heavy duty!
ARC10132/AR62 ALASKA
Exercise Great Bear
Canadian built Nodwell vehicles crossing the ice bridge with supplies of the 2nd BG, 60th Inf. on the Tanana River, Tanacross, Alaska.
5 Feb 62
Photo by Pfc. Henri Hebert
CONUS Photo Fac
Fort Devens, Mass
AT465
English/Anglais.
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19 March 2015.
5 Wing Goose Bay, Labrador .
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Exercise Sub Zero consists of the most advanced cadets from the Atlantic Region for a three day, forty kilometer outdoor expedition. The group of teenagers had to navigate rugged terrain stretching from Goose River to Dome Mountain..
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Credit: MCpl Maggie Gosse, 12 Wing Imaging Services, Shearwater, N.S© .
2015 DND-MDN Canada .
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, assigned to the 199th Fighter Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, flies away from a Wisconsin Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft Dec. 11, 2018, after receiving an air-to-air refueling during fighter-exercise Sentry Aloha near the Hawaiian Islands. Sentry Aloha provides tailored, cost effective and realistic combat training for U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard and other Department of Defense services to provide U.S. warfighters with the skill sets necessary to perform their homeland defense and overseas combat missions. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman John Linzmeier)
This is my room at night. Before I go to sleep, I turn on the light, just so I can see where I am going. The only light I leave off about ten minutes before I close my eyes is the one on the ceiling.
ARC2573/AR63 ALASKA
Exercise Timberline
Paratroopers of F Co.,4th BG, 23 inf. board an Army CH-21 helicopter for a heliborne raid during Operation Timberline.
20 Feb 63
by PFC Jerry Hickey
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
AP72
Exercise Selva Backstop 2016 is an Adventure Training (AT) Exercise in which participants walk and climb sections of the First World War front line, using the Via Ferrata system that runs across the Dolomites, Italy.
The team will be climbimng in and around Cortina Di Ampezzio which sat firmly within the Italian 4th Army Area of Responsibility (AOR), during 1915-18.
The objectives of this AT is to conduct demanding and arduous exercise which develops the multi-national, multi-ranked participants' teamwork,physical fitness and physical courage, whilst learning about the British 48th Division and the Italian 6th Army experiences during the conflict.
(NATO Photo / WO2 Dan Harmer GBR Army / Released)
Coast Guard boats from partner nations pull up to the pier in St. George's, Grenada, June 7, 2016 after completing on-water training as part of Exercise Tradewinds 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. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Leake
A search and rescue technician from the Canadian Defense Force 413th Rescue Squadron is lowered from a CH-149 helicopter to the deck of Coast Guard Cutter Albacore, Thursday, May 12, 2016. The training was part of an international and interagency search and rescue exercise called Operation Orange Flag. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Barresi)
HealthCorps Coordinators Jeff Lin and Judith Shatzky join a 6 Elements of Fitness Personal Trainer in helping children exercise.
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."