Kentucky National Guard Sgt. Patrick Noell, a medic assigned to the Kentucky National Guard’s CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), assesses a patient with a head injury June 11, 2016, at the Summit Pacific Medical Center in Elma, Washington. As a Walgreens Pharmacy Technician and student in physician assistant school, Noell said the lessons learned during the Vigilant Guard exercise and a recent Cascadia Rising exercise will also help in his civilian employment. The KY-CERFP assisted the SPMC with setting up and testing its abilities for decontamination of mass casualties for the fir


Kentucky National Guard Sgt. Patrick Noell, a medic assigned to the Kentucky National Guard’s CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), assesses a patient with a head injury June 11, 2016, at the Summit Pacific Medical Center in Elma, Washington. As a Walgreens Pharmacy Technician and student in physician assistant school, Noell said the lessons learned during the Vigilant Guard exercise and a recent Cascadia Rising exercise will also help in his civilian employment. The KY-CERFP assisted the SPMC with setting up and testing its abilities for decontamination of mass casualties for the first time in the hospital's three-year history as part of the Vigilant Guard program, a series of homeland defense exercises that allow Guard and local agencies to work together before a disaster scenario. Together, the CERFP and SPMC decontaminated and provided medical care to 10 patients who simulated severe trauma thanks to moulage, a type of makeup that provides responders with life-like injuries to treat. ( Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Gina Vaile-Nelson, KYARNG/Released)


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