KATHMANDU, Nepal— General Purna Chandra Thapa, Chief of Army Staff in the Nepali Army, provides opening remarks during the 2018 Nepal Pacific Resilience Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange, 25 Sep. 2018 in Kathmandu. The exercise is co-hosted by the Nepali Army and the United States Army Pacific with more than 300 disaster response professionals from 14 countries attending. During the four-day exercise, participants from national militaries, government organizations, the United Nations and non-government entities are split into teams according to expertise to work through a common earthqua
KATHMANDU, Nepal— General Purna Chandra Thapa, Chief of Army Staff in the Nepali Army, provides opening remarks during the 2018 Nepal Pacific Resilience Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange, 25 Sep. 2018 in Kathmandu. The exercise is co-hosted by the Nepali Army and the United States Army Pacific with more than 300 disaster response professionals from 14 countries attending. During the four-day exercise, participants from national militaries, government organizations, the United Nations and non-government entities are split into teams according to expertise to work through a common earthquake scenario while sharing knowledge, testing common operating procedures and making recommendations to improve future disaster planning and response procedures.
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