111105-Z-PP889-003 A California Army National Guard Soldier from the 149th Chemical Company guides a casualty role player through a decontamination shower cleaning unit 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


111105-Z-PP889-003 A California Army National Guard Soldier from the 149th Chemical Company guides a casualty role player through a decontamination shower cleaning unit 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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