FORT BELVOIR, VA.-- (August 1, 2018)--Members of the 911th Technical Rescue Engineer Company make entry into a manhole behind the Belvoir Hospital and extract simulated patients during a training exercise August 1, 2018. The 911th Technical Rescue Engineer Company, formerly the MDW (Military District of Washington) Engineer Company, is the only technical rescue company in the Department of Defense. It specializes in Urban Search and Rescue. The 911th is stationed at Fort Belvoir and is best known for its response to The Pentagon following the September 11 attacks in 2001. The company is mine rescue and technical rescue certified and specializes in trench, structural collapse, ropes, and confined space disciplines.
The Belvoir Hospital is a 120-bed, 1.3 million-square-foot military community hospital that serves a regional population of 250,000 personnel with about 100,000 enrollees receiving inpatient and specialty care services supported by 55 specialty clinics, a Warrior Pavilion (for combat injured/wounded/ ill), Inpatient Addictions Program, and three satellite family health centers at the Pentagon, Dumfries and Fairfax, Va.
(Department of Defense photos by Reese Brown)
| Date Taken: | 08.01.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 08.06.2018 13:15 |
| Photo ID: | 4621867 |
| VIRIN: | 180801-D-TQ271-001 |
| Resolution: | 4803x2586 |
| Size: | 3.31 MB |
| Location: | FORT BELVOIR, VA, US |
| Web Views: | 99 |
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