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U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jerad L. Wilcox, platoon sergeant, Echo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, observes a firing mission during Exercise Iron Fist 2014 aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 6, 2014. Iron Fist 2014 is an amphibious exercise that brings together Marines and Sailors from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, other I Marine Expeditionary Force units, and soldiers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, to promote military interoperability and hone individual and small-unit skills through challenging, complex and realistic training. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jamean R. Berry/Released)
SES rescue exercise.
You are an SES emergency worker. You arrive onsite in your rescue vehicle. You know that a bus has been in an accident. It is pitch black.
You can't see the bus, the fires, the damage. You don't know how many victims there are and what their ailments are.
The team kicks into gear. Cones go out marking the area whilst the generators are setup and emergency lighting comes online.
The first wave locate the bus, locate the fire hotspots, assess the safety and then cautiously enter the bus.
They move through the bus, taking note of the doors that will not stay open, the blown airbag, the debris.
They locate the driver, a man in the first section with missing limbs, a man dangling from the roof emergency exit, the pregnant lady and the impaled person.
They reassure everyone that they are there to help and form a plan.
The second wave has news from the first wave, directing them to those that need help, in what order and what to watch out for.
Their plan is to maximize survivors.
They wedge the main doors open and begin.
The driver is removed on a back brace. The man with missing limbs is carefully moved through the bus aisle and out the door. The 8 month pregnant lady is in a lot of pain and shouting.
She is carefully monuvered out of the door but being 8 months pregnant is a challenge. The 63 pound man hanging through the hatch is lowered and rescued.
Meanwhile the injured are in triage and being looked at by a doctor not far from the scene. The man in charge is constantly assessing the situation and dangers.
Finally they need to cut free the impaled person. Then on a back brace,remove her from the bus.
All of this whilst the patients are in pain, yelling and screaming.
I performed the part of an annoying media person whom was keen to get photos but needed to be kept in check and monitored to make sure I also did not end up hurt.
This was only a scenario. It was play acting.Having said that, the exercise was very real. Their actions were very real. People needed to be extracted and the SES team had to solve problems and overcome.
They did and I was very impressed.
This was performed in a Mercedes Benz O305G 587 articulated bus on the SES Training Course.
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A gunner from the 1st Estonian Infantry Brigade's Air Defence Battalion loads live rounds into ammunition boxes for the ZSU 23-2 anti aircraft guns in Rutja, Estonia during live fire training on Exercise Siil (Hedgehog), 03 May 2018. NATO photo by SSgt Dan Bardsley GBRA OR7
An M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division engages targets at a combined, joint live-fire accuracy screening test range May 10 in Wadi Shadiya, Jordan as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2017. Eager Lion was a two-weeklong multinational exercise with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in order to exchange military expertise and improve interoperability among partner nations. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Leah R. Kilpatrick, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs Office, 1st Cavalry Division (released)
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CFB Shilo, Manitoba.
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The stars come out over the search teams of the Arctic Response Company Group as they press on with their hunt for missing air crew and equipment. .
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On Exercise First Run members of the Arctic Response Company Group (ARCG) are rehearsing their drills for a dismounted deployment to the high arctic in support of a recovery operation for a major air disaster..
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Photo by MCpl Cameron Skrypnyk. Copyright 2014 DND/MDN.
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: Pte Thomas Lee, 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.
Swedish corvette HSwMS Nyköping (front) and Standing NATO Maritime Group One flagship Danish ship HDMS Esbern Snare work together with other ships and aircraft to find a submarine during an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise as part of NATO exercise Trident Juncture 2018 on October 25, 2018. Sweden is a NATO Partner participating in the exercise with troops and equipment. One of NATO’s closest partners, Sweden has high-end military capabilities and highly professional forces. Exercising together strengthens our partnership and improves our ability to work together. Photo: Lieutenant Commander Rob Kasteleijn, Standing NATO Maritime Group Two Staff Public Affairs Officer.
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: Sgt Maggie Gosse, 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.
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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: Pte Thomas Lee, 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.
Senior Airmen Jarrod Alston and Shane Zimmerman, 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle operations, walk toward their HMMWV to prepare it for a combat operational readiness training exercise Oct. 3 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The training is an every-two-year requirement for all vehicle operations Airmen. More than 20 completed the convoy operations missions that included inspections, attack scenarios and a medical evacuation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
A French Mirage 2000-D of the French Air Force, takes off from Leeuwarden Airbase.
Photo: OR-8 Sebastien Raffin / FRA Army
EXERCISE TRIDENT JAGUAR 2015
In this image: Brigadier Nesmith, Chief Officer for G6 Branch sits alone in a quieter part of the JWC complex.
The ARRC is being tested on Exercise Trident Jaguar at The Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, Norway.
This is so the ARRC can begin the role of a ready, stand-by Joint Task Force HQ for conducting a Crisis Response Small Joint Operation.
The ARRC was the NATO Response Force in 2013, and has built Joint planning and control capabilities upon those foundations in the past 18 months, making the headquarters a key command and control element in the NATO Force Structure.
Photographer: Sgt Mike O’Neill, RLC ABIPP, Photographer, HQ ARRC
Members from 3 Royal Australian Regiment jump from a 36 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force C130H Hercules as part of Exercise KAPYONG WARRIOR..
Exercise KAPYONG WARRIOR is an annual exercise to mount and insert, via parachute, an Airborne Combat Team. The Airborne Combat Team consists of a normal light Infantry Company from 3 RAR, with its artillery, signals and logistic attachments. The exercise begins with a parachute insertion into a training area, traditionally Singleton, followed by progressive training from blank fire and culminating in a company live fire attack, supported by artillery and Close Air Support (CAS). .
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One of the objectives for Exercise KAPYONG WARRIOR 2005 was to test the procedures that will be used for the deployment of the Airborne Battle Group (ABG) during Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 2005. Not only does Exercise KAPYONG WARRIOR test the soldiers, but it also tests the mounting procedures of both 3 RAR and RAAF Richmond, further developing and consolidating the joint nature of the ADF parachute capability..
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What: Exercise Kapyong Warrior Parachuting over Singleton Army Range by 3 Royal Australian Regiment.
Where: Singleton Army Training area, NSW.
Why: Exercise Kapyong Warrior.
Date: 6 May 05.
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Exercise Northern Lightning 2018 allows the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy to strengthen interoperability between services and gives the different branches a greater understanding of aviation capabilities within a joint fighting force. Photo courtesy of Joe Oliva
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
12th Combat Aviation Brigade, 173rd Airborne Brigade, 2d Cavalry Regiment and other aliied forces conduct airfield seizure training at Lielvarde Airbase, Latvia in support of Exercise Steadfast Javelin II on September 7, 2014. Steadfast Javelin is a NATO exercise involving over 2,000 Troops from 10 nations and focuses on increasing interoperability and synchronizing complex operations between allied air and ground forces. (U.S. Army photo by: Sgt. William A. Tanner)
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."
The Building Front from the Mens Exercise Yard, Southwell Workhouse, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
This looks onto the Governor's Block in the middle, where they could keep an eye on the 'inmates'.
The details below are repeated on each photo, so if you've read it once (firstly, thank-you for showing an interest) you don't need to read it again :
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I could write a book about workhouses. I could also get on my soapbox (on reading about workhouses) about how the attitudes to the poor by the rich have not changed one iota since those days - modern quotes from the rich and their lack of empathy towards the poor and their lack of willingness of the rich to contribute (and to actively avoid contributing via legal tax loopholes etc.) are almost identical to the attitudes of old. In places like Southwell, employment tended to be seasonal farm work, and they were laid off during the winter with not much hope of other employment. They were made to feel shamed and lazy and that it was their own fault that they were out of work. Just like now. Again I shall avoid the soapbox.
The Southwell workhouse was built in 1824 by Southwell Minsters Reverend John Becher as a residence for the poor. This workhouse was the first and used as a model for the nationwide system of hundreds of workhouses.
I'll not get into the details of the Poor Laws and the New Poor Laws here, but it's worth reading up on. The Workhouses came as a result of saving money because of the soaring cost of the equivalent of 'benefits' system (the poor laws). Note to self - keep of the soapbox (people that know me know that I am a socialist (proper socialist, NOT the Tory media image of socialism) because I actually care for and do something about people that are less well off than me). Sorry, took a step onto the box, but it does make my blood boil.
The Workhouse was a last resort for paupers. John Becher was a social reformer that set out his ideas in a pamphlet called 'The Anti-Pauper System'. The ideas were to reduce the tax burden, and to teach the poor to only ask for help as a last resort. The help provide was accommodation where discipline was exacting, accommodation basic and supervision constant.
On entry, people were segregated into several categories, never to meet while they were in residence (ie. families wouldn't see each other) as below :
Able bodied men
Able bodied women
Old and infirm men
Old and infirm women
Children under 7
Boys 7-12
Girls 7-15
Work for men was typically breaking rocks for use in roads, breaking old bones for fertiliser, picking oakum (old tarred rope) and for women, cooking, laundry, cleaning and picking oakum.
A typical timetable for 6 days a week was :
06:00 Rising Bell
06:30 Roll Call, Prayers then Breakfast (Bread and Gruel)
07:00 Work
12:00 Dinner (Boiled Meat and Potatoes or Soup. Saturdays Suet Pudding)
13:00 Work
18:00 Supper (Bread and Gruel)
20:00 Prayers then Bed
Christmas Day was Roast Beef and Plum Pudding. And the day off work.
I could go on, and on. It is worth reading about the workhouse system. Hopefully some of these pictures (uploaded over the next few days) will give some idea of what it was like. Visiting the workhouse was very poignant and sobering, but reading about it has made me realise that not a lot has changed in attitudes and divisions the in class system.
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: Pte Thomas Lee, 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.
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170322-N-GP524-551 COTONOU, Benin (March 22, 2017) U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Enforcement Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth Cruz-Reyes, left, trains Benin sailors on emergency medical procedures during exercise Obangame Express 2017. Obangame Express, sponsored by U.S. Africa Command, is designed to improve regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness, information-sharing practices, and tactical interdiction expertise to enhance the collective capabilities of Gulf of Guinea and West African nations to counter sea-based illicit activity. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bill Dodge/Released)
US Army soldiers walk down beach during Exercise Tobruq Arrows in Latvia. Tobruq Arrows is a Latvian-led, multinational short-range air defence exercise intended to enhance interoperability among NATO forces and increase readiness through the integration of land component air missile defence capabilities.
THE biggest live exercise of its kind ever held in Greater Manchester – Exercise Triton II – came to an end this morning (Friday, July 16, 2016) after months of intense planning.
Around 36 organisations across the region and nationally have been taking part in this major emergency planning exercise which saw dozens of emergency vehicles at sites across Greater Manchester and Chinook helicopters flying across the skies.
The complex scenario used was designed to test how local authorities, emergency services and other partners are equipped to tackle a major emergency working together.
Participating ‘players’ also included the military, government, health and utility companies, as well as voluntary agencies.
The exercise started on Monday, July 11, 2016, with ‘warnings’ from the Met Office regarding adverse weather and from the Environment Agency about the growing risk of regional flooding.
The emergency services, including Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), and partners put procedures in place to ensure that where possible properties and critical infrastructure were protected and the public were warned. This theme was carried on through Tuesday, July 12 and Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
To ensure that both players and plans were tested to their full, a dramatic scenario developed on Thursday, July 14, whereby the bank on the Dove Stone Reservoir in Oldham was breached and water cascaded through a number of boroughs within Greater Manchester.
This meant that evacuation procedures had to be put in place and rest centres set up. Later in the day, a coach ploughed into the River Tame in a mock crash and a full-scale search and rescue operation was carried out.
Paul Argyle, GMFRS’ Deputy County Fire Officer and Chair of Greater Manchester Resilience Forum, said: “Exercise Triton II was a hugely complex emergency planning exercise and I would like to thank all of the agencies that have taken part this week.
"This was a very detailed scenario which had impacts across every part of the region and necessitated a full range of partners taking part.
"The scale of the destruction and chaos in the exercise was deliberately designed to test the region at full stretch.
"We have to do this to ensure we are well prepared to deal with any future real-life event or disaster that might occur – and it is also invaluable that those taking part got the chance to practise essential response skills that would be used during a major incident like this.
"I would particularly like to thank all the volunteers who took part in this exercise. The patience and understanding of local residents and communities on Thursday (as response plans went into effect at 'live' sites) was also greatly appreciated.
“All players have now been 'stood down'. Our next task is to evaluate how the exercise went, step by step. We will want to find out what worked well and crucially to identify and learn any lessons that could help us in the future in real-life situations. I would like to point out that incidents as extreme as this are highly unlikely, but ensuring we practice our response means that we are ready to respond to a variety of scenarios."
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Exercise Great Bear
Col. William R. Donaldson, G-3; Col Bernard Major, G-2; Sgt. Maj. Tom Stafford, Operations sergeant. Sgt. Maj. Stafford explains the nuclear blast effects to Col. Donaldson and Col. Major during the War Games Phase II Exercise Great Bear 18-20 Oct. 61 at Eklutna, Alaska.
19 Oct 61
Photo by Sp4 Jerry Dickens
Pictorial Branch
Fort Richardson
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