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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.
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.
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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Emergency workers remove a casualty from the area during a U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg Force Protection/Consequence Management Exercise held Oct. 18 at the Defense Distribution Depot Europe in Germersheim, with command and control from Heidelberg. The exercise simulated a vehicle- borne explosive detonation on the installation. The vehicle held eight passengers. The Germersheim Fire Department responded along with members of the local German volunteer fire department, Rotes Kreuz and Polizei. (photo by Mitchell Lee, USAG Heidelberg)
Members of 37 Canadian Brigade Group trek in snow shoes to their bivouac at the Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay Training Area during Exercise MAROON SOJOURN on February 19, 2024.
Photo: Sailor First Class Alexandra Proulx, Canadian Armed Forces Combat Camera
Des membres du 37e Groupe-brigade du Canada marchent en raquettes en direction de leur bivouac, dans le secteur d’entraînement de la Base des Forces canadiennes Goose Bay au cours de l’exercice MAROON SOJOURN, le 19 février 2024.
Photo : Matelot de 1re classe Alexandra Proulx, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
ARC2557/AR63 ALASKA
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
ARC10137/AR62 ALASKA
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
Members of 37 Canadian Brigade Group trek in snow shoes to their bivouac at the Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay Training Area during Exercise MAROON SOJOURN on February 19, 2024 .
Photo: Sailor First Class Alexandra Proulx, Canadian Armed Forces Combat Camera
Des membres du 37e Groupe-brigade du Canada marchent en raquettes en direction de leur bivouac, dans le secteur d’entraînement de la Base des Forces canadiennes Goose Bay au cours de l’exercice MAROON SOJOURN, le 19 février 2024
Photo : Matelot de 1re classe Alexandra Proulx, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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."
ARC2570/AR63 ALASKA
Exercise Timberline
CH-21 __ helicopters arrive at the Fort Greely airstrip to pick up members of the 4th BG, 23 Inf during Exercise Timberline.
20 Feb 63
by Pfc. Jerry Hickey
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
AP72
You want to exercise. Or at the very least, you want to want to exercise. You know the myriad benefits — weight loss, stress reduction, improved sleep, to name just a few. When you’re honest with yourself, you know you could find the time to squeeze in a couple workouts a week....
Leading Seaman Zack Verdun, Clearance Diver from Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic), supervises Caribbean divers as they practice a necklace search under United States Army Ship Aldie during Exercise TRADEWINDS 15 in St Kitts and Nevis on June 5, 2015.
Photo: Sgt Yannick Bédard, Canadian Forces Combat Camera.
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Le matelot de 1re classe Zack Verdun, plongeur démineur de l’Unité de plongée de la Flotte (Atlantique), supervise des plongeurs caribéens qui effectuent une recherche en collier sous le navire Aldie de l’armée américaine au cours de l’exercice TRADEWINDS, à Saint Kitts et Nevis, le 5 juin 2015.
Photo : Sgt Yannick Bédard, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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The older I get, the more I reserve the right to change my mind.
Today, I officially changed my exercise preference to kettlebeller. And by 'officially', I mean I've updated my Twitter bio.
This is the third time I've changed my exercise orientation in just over a year. And I'm quite fine with that. Especially now that I know I will eventually be able to get a killer workout in 20 minutes a day, three days a week.
Yes! Exercise for lazy people!
Make no mistake though, even with only 60 minutes of exercise a week, I'll still be able to kick your ass. Rawr! :)
Tech. Sgt. Justin Davis, a tactical air control party specialist with the 137th Special Operations Wing, Oklahoma National Guard, acts as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance air asset for multinational military members participating in an anti-piracy exercise on a vessel moored at a shore base facility during TRADEWINDS23 in Georgetown, Guyana, July 24, 2023. This training exercise incorporated volunteers as opposition forces for four nations to experience operating with real people in a high-stress environment. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Brigette Waltermire)
ARC10091/AR62 ALASKA
Exercise Great Bear
Sp4 Frank Sicuso, a cook at Signal Company, USARAL mess hall, checks incoming food supplies.
29 Jan 62
Photo by SP4 Bill Bowden
Support Command Photo Facility
Fort Richardson
AT465
My great-grandfather, L.C. Bundgaard, exercising. The inscription on the back says that this is either in Omaha, 1909, or Grand View, 1914. Looking at other pictures, though, I'd say it was taken in Greenfield, OH, but I'm not sure on the year. Perhaps 1918.
And he's wearing a belt.
CAMP MUJUK, POHANG, Republic Of Korea – Marines with Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 1, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force move boxes of chairs and lights to set up the Tactical Air Command Center (TACC) for the use during Exercise Key Resolve here Feb. 20. Exercise Key Resolve demonstrates the Republic of Korea-U.S. Alliance's ability to defend the ROK, protect the region and maintain stability on the Korean peninsula. (U.S. Marine Photo by Lance Cpl. Michael Iams/Released)
Partner nation Coast Guard boats 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
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."
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."
General Walter Natynczyk, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), visits with crews of 407 Squadron that are participating in Exercise RIMPAC, Hawaii.
Two CP-140 Aurora aircraft from 407 Maritime Patrol Squadron (Sqn), 19 Wing Comox, participate in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). RIMPAC is a multinational exercise designed to prepare military forces to work together on a wide range of potential operations and missions.
USCGC Sycamore (WLB 209) crewmembers stand tow watch during a towing exercise with French Navy patrol vessel Fulmar (P740) during Exercise Argus, near Nuuk, Greenland, June 14, 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)
A crew member from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, looks under the Mobile Communication Vehicle onboard a C-130 in St. George's, Grenada, June 6, 2016. The MCV, a large, robust communication asset used for emergency and national communication support, was transported to Grenada for Tradewinds 2016, and this is the first time this asset has been deployed internationally. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Leake
ARC2568/AR63 ALASKA
Exercise Timberline
An M-59 from the 4th BG, 23 Inf. is shown in the central of frozen Alaska during Exercise Timberline.
14 Feb 63
by Sp4 Kenneth Puckett
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson, Alaska
AP72
ARC10106/AR62 ALASKA
Exercise Great Bear
A joint flag-raising ceremony of Canadian and American troops was held at the 2nd BG, 60th Inf task force base camp at Tanacross, Alaska.
29 Jan 62
Photo by Sgt. Charles Shaw
Support Command Photo Facility
Fort Richardson
AT465
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.
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.
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.
An exercise physiology baseline assessment session with ultra endurance athlete Mark Hines at Roehampton University.
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.