Exercise Vigilant Guard 2007

Vigilant Guard Indiana

An 11-day, Indiana National Guard-hosted exercise that will test the National Guard as the first military responder in support of the governor and the state emergency management agency.

HURREX Rhode Island

A Hurricane Exercise, or "HURREX", is the National Guard's support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) 2007 hurricane preparedness exercise series.

Northern Edge Alaska

A joint training exercise designed to test military and civilian responses and coordination capabilities should multiple terrorist incidents occur throughout the state of Alaska.

Featured Photo

Mike Hicks, fire chief of the Cordova, Alaska, fire department, receives a report from one of his firefighters wearing protective gear as Lieutenant Colonel Brian Shields, Commander of the 101st WMD civil support team from Boise, Idaho, looks on. All three are participating in Alaska Shield/Northern Edge, a joint training exercise designed to test military and civilian responses and coordination capabilities should multiple terrorist incidents occur throughout the state of Alaska.
Two Patient Transport staffers from Fairbanks Memorial Hospital wheel away a mock patient from an Alaska Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter during a mass casualty exercise as part of Operation Alaska Shield/Northern Edge. Photo by Spec. Frank O'Brien, 29th ID PAO, NGVA, NGB-PA.

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