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Lehigh Valley Zoo refers to this small, fenced-in area as the exercise yard. Education staff bring ambassador animals there for half-hour periods, to let them run around outdoors, soak up some rays, and talk about them with zoo guests. This is where I take many of my photos of animals who are not on exhibit.
During Exercise Steel Knight, Pfc. Tony Little, a water purification technician with 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, provides first aid to a simulated casualty at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 7. Marines with 1st MLG completed a combat lifesaver class while supporting Exercise Steel Knight. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kenneth Jasik/Released)
this plastic basket I got out of the apartment dumpster, cleaned it up, taped the handle that was broken and now store my hand weights, jump rope and therma bands in it.
*the hand weights and exercise ball i borrowed from inlaws, the therma bands were from the physical therpist in the army and the jumprope i got from my grandma's so nothing spent*
International military members participate in the Opening Ceremony of United States of America’s Southern Command’s multinational Caribbean regional security capability Exercise TRADEWINDS at Camp Ayanganna in Georgetown, Guyana on 15 July 2023.
Please credit: MCpl Genevieve Lapointe, Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Des militaires internationaux participent à la cérémonie d’ouverture de l’exercice multinational TRADEWINDS dirigé par le United States Southern Command, visant à renforcer les capacités en matière de sécurité régionale dans les Caraïbes, au Camp Ayanganna, à Georgetown, au Guyana, le 15 juillet 2023.
Photo : Cplc Genevieve Lapointe, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes, Forces armées canadiennes
International military members participate in the Opening Ceremony of United States of America’s Southern Command’s multinational Caribbean regional security capability Exercise TRADEWINDS at Camp Ayanganna in Georgetown, Guyana on 15 July 2023.
Please credit: MCpl Genevieve Lapointe, Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Des militaires internationaux participent à la cérémonie d’ouverture de l’exercice multinational TRADEWINDS dirigé par le United States Southern Command, visant à renforcer les capacités en matière de sécurité régionale dans les Caraïbes, au Camp Ayanganna, à Georgetown, au Guyana, le 15 juillet 2023.
Photo : Cplc Genevieve Lapointe, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes, Forces armées canadiennes
Greater Manchester's emergency services and Highways England traffic officers joined forces last weekend for one of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercises.
Exercise Dark Knight saw over 100 people respond to a simulated major incident on a closed section of the M62 motorway.
Over 50 volunteers played the part of drivers and passengers involved in a major collision. Their role was to simulate a range of injuries, from cuts and bruises to fatalities.
The exercise was designed to improve responses to major road incidents and ensure coordination between the various emergency services.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
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.
A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) CF-18 Hornet (official military designation CF-188) (S/N 188794) connects to the basket of a RCAF Lockheed CC-130T Hercules to refuel just off the coast of Hawaii during the Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) on July 14, 2014.
Exercise Northern Sojourn 2014 .
Cpl. Julie Tremblay, of Base Logistics CFB Halifax and LS Isabelle Theriault of 5 Canadian Division Support Group Tech Services in Gagetown, NB, enjoy their work even if it's just matching up returned military winter mukluks on 28 February in 5 Wing Goose Bay in Happy Valley-Goose Bay Labrador as part of the Joint Task Force Support Element supporting ongoing exercises.
Exercice NORTHERN SOJOURN 2014
Le 28 février, le caporal Julie Tremblay, des services logistiques de la BFC Halifax, et le matelot de 1re classe Isabelle Theriault, des Services techniques du groupe de soutien de la 5e Division du Canada Gagetown, au Nouveau-Brunswick, travaillent avec entrain, même s’il s’agit simplement de rassembler des mukluks d’hiver retournées sur le site de la 5e Escadre Goose Bay, à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador au sein de l’élément de soutien de la force opérationnelle interarmées qui appuie les exercices en cours.
Photo by WO Jerry Kean.
Photo identified by LH2014-002-063.
© 2014 DND-MDN Canada
Exercise ‘Aman 11’ was formally inaugurated on Tuesday with a flag hoisting and opening ceremony at PN Dockyard.
Exercise Northern Raider 2014
35 Field Ambulance medic Cpl Katlyn Walton tries to catch another fish from a 4 foot thick ice hole in Lake Melville near 5 Wing Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador on February 25 during Ex NORTHERN RAIDER.
Ex NORTHERN RAIDER 2014, taking place from February 22 to 28, is a comprehensive winter warfare training exercise involving soldiers, primarily Reservists, of 37 Canadian Brigade Group (37 CBG) from Newfoundland. The exercise aims to maintain and refine both the Canadian Army’s operational capabilities and soldiers’ ability to operate in the Arctic’s austere conditions.
Photo by WO Jerry Kean
Photo identified by LH2014-003-034
© 2014 DND-MDN Canada
Exercice Northern Raider 2014
Le Cpl Katlyn Walton, technicienne médicale au sein de la 35e Ambulance de campagne, essaie d’attraper un autre poisson en pêche sur glace dans un trou de 4 pieds d’épaisseur sur le lac Melville, à proximité de la 5e Escadre Goose Bay (T. N. L.), le 25 février, dans le cadre de l’Ex NORTHERN RAIDER.
L’Ex NORTHERN RAIDER 2014, qui se déroule du 22 au 28 février, est un exercice complet d’entraînement à la guerre en hiver auquel participent les soldats, principalement des réservistes, du 37e Groupe brigade du Canada (37 GBC) de Terre Neuve et Labrador. Il vise le maintien et le perfectionnement des capacités opérationnelles de l’Armée canadienne et des compétences des soldats à mener des opérations dans des conditions difficiles, en Arctique.
Photo de l’adjudant Jerry Kean
Photo no LH2014-003-034
© 2014 DND-MDN Canada
Lieutenant (Navy) Evan Roberts, Navigating Officer of Canadian frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec braces for simulated impact during training while sailing in a Norwegian fjord during NATO exercise Trident Juncture on November 6, 2018. Photo: MCpl Andre Maillet, MARPAC Imaging Services
A sailor aboard a Norwegian corvette provides force protection for the United States Navy ampibious ship USS Iwo Jima in a Norwegian fjord October 31, 2018 during NATO exercise Trident Juncture. Photo: Bendik Skogli / Forsvaret
Menig artillerist på en Skjold klasse korvette under force protection av Iwo Jima (US).
Greater Manchester's emergency services and Highways England traffic officers joined forces last weekend for one of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercises.
Exercise Dark Knight saw over 100 people respond to a simulated major incident on a closed section of the M62 motorway.
Over 50 volunteers played the part of drivers and passengers involved in a major collision. Their role was to simulate a range of injuries, from cuts and bruises to fatalities.
The exercise was designed to improve responses to major road incidents and ensure coordination between the various emergency services.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
A crewmember aboard Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) ship Belgian frigate BNS Louise Marie reviews some publications while conducting a replenishment at sea with Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) ship Spanish tanker ESPS Cantabria on October 27, 2018 as part of NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2018.
BLACK SEA, March 12. 2017 - Mine hunters from Turkey, Spain, Romania, Greece and Germany (left to right) are nested with Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group Two (SNMCMG2) flag ship ORP K. X. Czernicki, during the Romanian-led exercise Poseidon 17. The exercise joins Romanian partners and SNMCMG2 for training and to enhance interoperability. NATO Photo by FRA N CPO Christian Valverde.
A Royal Netherlands Navy NH90 lands on Spanish frigate ESPS Cristóbal Colón in the North Atlantic during NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2018. Photo: LTJG. Joaquin Garat Loureiro (SP Navy)
A simple sunset painting that was a quick exercise to try.
Original "Evening Glow" in the books "The Watercolor Bible - A Painter`s Complete Guide" and "Mastering the Watercolor Wash" by Joe Garcia.
Two YN560 through colored paper on camera left and right. Think the right speedlite coming from above was at 1/16 (giving a small reflection right beyond the fingertip). The left coming in approx. at camera height was on 1/32 power.
1 Sec., f11, ISO200
After identifying the specific nature of your physical challenges, you will be assigned specific stretches, movements, and exercises to optimally insure proper recovery and to restore your health and fitness. This occurs in a phased approach:
Phase I involves range of motion enhancement patterns and stretches designed to restore joint function.
Phase II involves core stability exercises designed to increase a joint’s weight-bearing ability while at the same time increasing pain-free range of motion.
Phase III involves specific strength and conditioning exercises designed to enable you to perform desired activities of daily living at least as well as, if not better than, you did before you were injured.
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.
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.
Soldiers from The Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Nigeria during Exercise Flintlock 2019, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Feb. 27, 2019.
Hosted by Burkina Faso, Exercise Flintlock is designed to strengthen the ability of key partner nations in the region to counter violent extremist organizations, protect their borders and provide security for their people.
Photo: Spc. Dracorius white
A member of the Guyana Fire Service practices Throw Bag Drills with the water rescue rope as part of the Enhanced Water Rescue Awareness training provided by the My Medic First Aid Company during Exercise TRADEWINDS '23 at the Guyana Police Academy in Georgetown, Guyana, on July 21st, 2023.
Photo by: Sailor First Class Alexandra Proulx, Visual Communications Support, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
Un membre du service des incendies du Guyana s’exerce au lancer du sac de sauvetage avec une corde de sauvetage nautique au cours d’une formation de sensibilisation accrue au sauvetage nautique, qui est offerte par l’entreprise de premiers soins My Medic dans le cadre de l’exercice TRADEWINDS 23 à l’Académie de police du Guyana à Georgetown (Guyana), le 21 juillet 2023.
Photo : Matelot de 1re classe Alexandra Proulx, Soutien des communications visuelles, Forces armées canadiennes
Greater Manchester's emergency services and Highways England traffic officers joined forces last weekend for one of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercises.
Exercise Dark Knight saw over 100 people respond to a simulated major incident on a closed section of the M62 motorway.
Over 50 volunteers played the part of drivers and passengers involved in a major collision. Their role was to simulate a range of injuries, from cuts and bruises to fatalities.
The exercise was designed to improve responses to major road incidents and ensure coordination between the various emergency services.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Matt Kettler, a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft pilot assigned to the 17th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, conducts preflight checks during an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise at Green Ramp, Pope Army Airfield, N.C., Jan. 27, 2015. Five hundred U.S. Army paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, were airdropped onto Wright Army Airfield, Fort Stewart, Ga., from five C-17 transport aircraft 18 hours after notification. As the nucleus of the nation's Global Response Force, the 82nd Airborne Division provides a strategic hedge for combatant commanders with a responsive, agile and operationally significant response force that is flexible in size and composition to accomplish missions anywhere in the world. Air Mobility Command's participation also illustrates the critical partnership between Mobility Air Forces and the U.S. Army by exercising Joint Forcible Entry: the capability of rapidly introducing forces into hostile environments to conduct operations—whether combat or humanitarian support. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marvin Krause)
BLACK SEA, July 20. 2018. A Dutch Navy Officer team aboard SNMG2 flagship HNLMS De Ruyter, carry on a Replenishment at Sea (RAS) with FS Marne during Exercise BREEZE 18. NATO Photo by WO FRAN C. Valverde.
BLACK SEA, July 19. 2018. SNMG2 unit TCG Fatih, and HS Daniolos conduct drills at sea during Exercise BREEZE 18. BREEZE is designed to enhance the interoperability of the participating units and strengthen cooperation by practicing different warfare techniques in a multi-dimensional scenario. Multinational participating forces and their crews will be tested in a wide range of warfare tactics focusing on regional security. This year participants include 25 ships, 1 submarine, 9 aircraft, and 2340 military staff out of 11 countries (Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherland, Poland, Turkey, Romania and the United States ). NATO Photo by WO FRAN C. Valverde.NATO Photo by WO FRAN C. Valverde.
US Army paratroopers prepare to tether Lightweight Counter Mortar Radar (LCMR) to Chinook helicopter during exercise Swift Response.
Swift Response 2021 is a US Army-led multinational exercise involving more than 7,000 paratroopers from 10 NATO Allies.
All paratroopers were vaccinated against COVID-19 before arrival.
This is the gym at Sycamore Sr. Center in Blue Ash. Lots of great ways to get my exercise, and usually, a place full of friendly people to help pass the time while we work out!
Divers from Royal Netherlands Navy mine hunter HNLMS Makkum dive on exercise mines October 27, 2018 as part of a drill during NATO exercise Trident Juncture in the fjords near Molde, Norway. With around 50,000 personnel participating in Trident Juncture 2018, it is one of the largest NATO exercises in recent years. Around 250 aircraft, 65 vessels and more than 10,000 vehicles are involved in the exericse in Norway. Photo: Hedvig Antoinette Halgunset, Royal Norwegian Navy photographer.
Greater Manchester's emergency services and Highways England traffic officers joined forces last weekend for one of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercises.
Exercise Dark Knight saw over 100 people respond to a simulated major incident on a closed section of the M62 motorway.
Over 50 volunteers played the part of drivers and passengers involved in a major collision. Their role was to simulate a range of injuries, from cuts and bruises to fatalities.
The exercise was designed to improve responses to major road incidents and ensure coordination between the various emergency services.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Exercise COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 17, which took place at 4th Canadian Division Support Base Petawawa from 19 to 22 September, provided an opportunity for Canadian Army stakeholders and civilian leaders to experience a personal and in-depth understanding of Canadian Army capabilities, equipment as well as the professionalism and skill of Canadian soldiers.
Photo by: Garrison Imaging Petawawa
L’exercice COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT 2017, qui s’est tenu à la Base de soutien de la 4e Division du Canada Petawawa, du 19 au 22 septembre, a procuré à des intervenants liés à l’Armée canadienne et à des dirigeants civils une occasion de voir et de bien comprendre personnellement en quoi consistent les capacités et l’équipement de l’Armée canadienne, de même que de se rendre compte du professionnalisme et des compétences des soldats canadiens.
Photo par
Section d'imagerie Petawawa
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.
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