Lt. Col. Raymond Stemitz, the operations officer for the 177th Military Police Brigade boards a Mississippi National Guard C17 to fly home from St. Croix, Virgin Islands at the conclusion of a successful training exercise. The Michigan National Guard is conducting an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise to validate their ability to alert, marshal, and deploy a ready force to support the Virgin Islands in the face of the next hurricane.

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