An aircrew with the Illinois Air National Guard’s 182nd Airlift Wing at Peoria operates a C-130 Hercules at Young Air Assault Strip July 18, 2017, on South Post during the Patriot North 2017 Exercise at Fort McCoy, Wis. The aircrew were among the record 155,975 service members who trained at Fort McCoy during fiscal year 2017. Patriot North is a training exercise designed for civilian emergency management and responders to work with military entities in the same manner that they would during disasters. The exercise tests the National Guard’s abilities to support response operations based on si
An aircrew with the Illinois Air National Guard’s 182nd Airlift Wing at Peoria operates a C-130 Hercules at Young Air Assault Strip July 18, 2017, on South Post during the Patriot North 2017 Exercise at Fort McCoy, Wis. The aircrew were among the record 155,975 service members who trained at Fort McCoy during fiscal year 2017. Patriot North is a training exercise designed for civilian emergency management and responders to work with military entities in the same manner that they would during disasters. The exercise tests the National Guard’s abilities to support response operations based on simulated emergency scenarios, such as a strong storm bringing high winds and the storm surge creating a collapsed building, mass casualties, and the need for search and rescue along with evacuations of injured. ( Army
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