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Guard Civil Support Team Supports Shelby County Fire Department During Vigilant Guard 08
April 22, 2008
JISCC Team
April 22, 2008
Pfc. Michael Becker, a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) specialist of the 230th Signal Company Tennessee Army National Guard, mans the Joint Incident Site Communications Capabilities (JISCC) main desk. The 230th has set up the JISCC in support of the Vigilant Guard exercise at the Mid-South Support Center, Millington. Becker, a Clarksville, Tenn. resident, keeps a visitors log, and answers the phone while helping servicemembers use the internet, or telephones in the JISCC.
West Tennessee Rocks...and the Guard Rolls; NG exercises a mock earthquake scenario
April 22, 2008
Local father, daughter support Vigilant Guard
April 22, 2008
James Colwell, the assistant fire chief for the city of Beaufort, S.C., and his daughter, Airman 1st Class Sarah Colwell of the 75th Security Forces Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, pose for a picture as two S.C. National Guard CH-47D Chinook helicopters drop off South Carolina Task Force One, urban search and rescue technicians, to support the National Guard's Vigilant Guard exercise taking place April 21 in Beaufort, S.C. The Vigilant Guard exercise here in S.C. involves 3,000 Guard members from across the country and hundreds of personnel throughout the host county of Beaufort, S.C., the S.C. Emergency Management Division and other military, government and non-government organizations.
NEADS ANG members return after deployment to Kyrgyzstan
April 21, 2008
Staff Sgt. Stephen Manley, a Northeast Air Defense Sector Security Force member returning from deployment, smiles at his daughter Morgan at the Syracuse International Airport March 14. In the unit's largest deployment ever, nearly 30 security force members deployed on a six-month tour to Manas Air Base, located in Kyrgyzstan, in September 2007.
Bosnia and Herzegovina emulates the National Guard
April 21, 2008
LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, on April 10, 2008, pauses to reflect at the Sarajevo street corner where on June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, considered the event that precipitated World War I, resulting in about 20 million deaths. In the aftermath of the death of Marshall (Josip Broz) Tito and the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, the Balkans were again plunged into violence in the 1990s that was ended by NATO intervention. The National Guard has contributed to the Balkan peace enforcement mission for nearly a decade and in Sarajevo military leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina say they would like to use the National Guard as one of the models for their armed forces.
Air Guard EMEDS team breaks new ground in Vigilant Guard
April 21, 2008
Tech. Sgt. David Betts, of the 187th Medical Group, assembles an electrical distribution panel in a field hospital in preparation for the Vigilant Guard 2008 exercise on April 19, in Beaufort, S.C. The hospital will be used by the expeditionary medical support team (EMEDS) which will practice responding to natural disasters during the 3-day National Guard exercise in Beaufort County, S.C.
Soldiers from Denmark observe Vigilant Guard 2008
April 21, 2008
Pvt. Rene Andersen, a soldier in the Denmark Army, packs his gear during Vigilant Guard 2008, a disaster response training exercise based in Beaufort County, S.C. on April 18, 2008. Andersen and a contingent of 40 Danish soldiers are participating in the exercise as observers. Many of the Danes served alongside South Carolina National Guard Soldiers in 2007 in Afghanistan in support of the Global War on Terror.
Media invitation to the largest preparedness exercise in South Carolina hosted by the National Guard
April 21, 2008
Oklahoma City first responders teach search and rescue
April 21, 2008
Danny Atchley, a member of the RIG team from Oklahoma City, explains the design characteristics that when into the creation of this unique training site. It is the only one of it's kind in the entire southeast. Various training sites like this specially constructed "rubble pile" will become a common learning ground for civilian and military rescue and disaster response teams participating in the Vigilant Guard 2008 exercise from 21-24 March 2008 in Beaufort County, S.C. Army and Air National Guard personnel from South Carolina and numerous states will be conducting an earthquake response exercise in coordination with local and federal emergency agencies. This training site was designed by Response International Group from Oklahoma City. Their main focus is to train military and civilian emergency response teams on victim extraction from building collapses, natural disaster aftermath, etc.
Alabama Airman follows family tradition
April 21, 2008
Technical Sgt. Melissa DiQuinzio of the 143rd Medical Group, Rhode Island Air National Guard, and Staff Sgt. Devin Boggan, 187th Medical Group, Alabama Air National Guard, , unpack medical equipment to be used during Vigilant Guard 2008, a disaster response training exercise based in Beaufort County, S.C., April 20, 2008. Vigilant Guard is one of the largest disaster response training exercises in the history of the National Guard, involving more than 3,000 Soldiers and Airmen from more than a dozen states.
Kansas Airman ready to lend a hand
April 21, 2008
Staff Sgt. Doyse Manz, a surgical technician with the 190th Medical Group of the Kansas Air National Guard, unpacks medical equipment to be used during Vigilant Guard 2008, a disaster response training exercise based in Beaufort County, S.C., April 20, 2008. Vigilant Guard is one of the largest disaster response training exercises in the history of the National Guard, involving more than 3,000 Soldiers and Airmen from more than a dozen states.
Staying in touch after disaster strikes
April 21, 2008
Chief Warrant Officer Larry Fuller and Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Drennon, both members of Joint Forces Headquarters-South Carolina, work to maintain the communications network during Vigilant Guard 2008, April 20, 2008. Vigilant Guard is one of the largest disaster response training exercises in the history of the National Guard, involving more than 3,000 Soldiers and Airmen from more than a dozen states.
Convoy regulations keep traffic moving
April 21, 2008
Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina: Still making history today
April 21, 2008
Charleston, S.C., in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck on Aug. 31, 1886.
South Carolina Guard's 43rd Civil Support Team assists local fire district during National Guard exercise
April 21, 2008
Two members of the Recon/Survey element of the South Caroliina's 43rd Civil Support Team, conduct an initial sweep of a suspicious area as part of the Vigilant Guard exercise held in the Beaufort, S.C. area Apr. 21. Other participants in the exercise included the Bluffton Township Fire District. The 43rd CST, the only joint Army-Air National Guard unit in the state, is located in West Columbia, S.C., and is made up of 22 full-time National Guard members. "This exercise helps prepare us for future events such as natural disasters, Turner said, and gives us the opportunity to work with the National Guard and they with us."
Greenville Soldier prepares for disaster response
April 21, 2008
Pvt. George Green, a member of the 118th Mechanized Infantry of the South Carolina National Guard, prepares a mobile kitchen tent unit for use during Vigilant Guard SC, a disaster response preparedness exercise that brought together more than 2,000 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen to work with local, state and other federal authorities in Beaufort County, S.C. Green, a resident of Greenville, S.C., joined the National Guard in 2007.
Rubble pile creates realistic search and rescue scenarios
April 21, 2008
Various training sites like this specially constructed "rubble pile" will become a common learning ground for civilian and military rescue and disaster response teams participating in the Vigilant Guard 2008 exercise from 21-24 March 2008 in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Army and Air National Guard personnel from South Carolina and numerous states will be conducting a earthquake response exercise in coordination with local and federal emergency agencies. This training site was designed by Response International Group from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Their main focus is to train military and civilian emergency response teams on victim extraction from building collaspes, natural disaster aftermath, etc.
Louisiana Guard prepares for hurricane season
April 18, 2008
Soldiers help an injured role player during the Disaster Response Exercise. Soldiers were given different missions simultaneously to test the Louisiana National Guard's ability to respond to an emergency.
Kentucky National Guard, Emergency Management prepared to respond to earthquake
April 18, 2008