111105-Z-PP889-001 Pfc. Joe Pangnanouvong from Modesto, Calif., a quartermaster and chemical equipment repairer for the California Army National Guard’s 149th Chemical Company, scans a casualty role player for radiation in the 2011 Arizona Statewide/Vigilant Guard Exercise, in Phoenix, Nov. 5. The exercise is designed to enhance the California National Guard’s disaster response capabilities to a detonated improvised nuclear device. Vigilant Guard is preparing the 49th Military Police Brigade to assume the role as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region IX military disaster coordinator


111105-Z-PP889-001 Pfc. Joe Pangnanouvong from Modesto, Calif., a quartermaster and chemical equipment repairer for the California Army National Guard’s 149th Chemical Company, scans a casualty role player for radiation in the 2011 Arizona Statewide/Vigilant Guard Exercise, in Phoenix, Nov. 5. The exercise is designed to enhance the California National Guard’s disaster response capabilities to a detonated improvised nuclear device. Vigilant Guard is preparing the 49th Military Police Brigade to assume the role as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region IX military disaster coordinator, or Homeland Response Force. (Army National Guard photo/Spc. Grant J. Larson/Released)


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