Story by Maj. David Bedard | 176th Wing | 04.03.2025
Alaska military exercises disaster response during Vigilant Guard
Story by Edwin Wriston | West Virginia National Guard | 05.21.2021
Members of the West Virginia National Guard and the West Virginia Emergency Management Division hosted more than 60 participants at the West Virginia Training and Conference Center in Julian, West Virginia, May 19-21, 2021, for a final planning meeting for Vigilant Guard, a national, full-scale exercise to be held in West Virginia later this summer....
Story by Edwin Wriston | West Virginia National Guard | 03.10.2021
Members of the West Virginia National Guard met with personnel from the West Virginia Emergency Management Division at EMD headquarters in Dunbar, W.Va., Mar. 10, 2021, to coordinate planning for a national-level full-scale exercise to be held in West Virginia later this summer....
Story by Senior Airman Amber Mullen-Schweitzer | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 08.20.2019
Two Hungarian Defence Forces members and four members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior visited Ohio Aug. 5-8, 2019, to observe the statewide Vigilant Guard 19-4 joint disaster response and emergency preparedness training exercise. The Ohio National Guard hosted the guests as part of a scheduled engagement through the long-standing partnership with Hungary and Serbia through the Department......
Story by Staff Sgt. Michael Carden | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 08.09.2019
Vigilant Guard 19-4 — a national-level disaster response and emergency management exercise involving more than 3,000 personnel and over 90 local, state and federal agencies and co-sponsored by U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and the National Guard Bureau — tested Ohio’s ability to respond to various disaster simulations, challenging those involved to their very limits. The exercise......
Story by Staff Sgt. Michael Carden | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 08.09.2019
The 178th Incident Awareness and Assessment forward mobile team provides the technical skills and capabilities that can connect various local, state and federal agencies into the Domestic Operations Awareness and Assessment Response Tool (DAART), a system developed to provide both civil and military first responders the capability to process and share situational awareness information. The......
Story by Staff Sgt. Michael Carden | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 08.05.2019
Vigilant Guard kicked off with a flurry of activity Aug. 5, with first responders and emergency management personnel from across Ohio working together during a variety of disaster scenarios designed to test their skills and their teamwork. Involving more than 90 local, state and federal agencies, building interagency communication and interoperability is the focus of the exercise. Vigilant......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Chad Menegay | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 07.24.2019
The Ohio National Guard and the Ohio Emergency Management Agency will host the largest disaster and emergency response exercise in state history, Aug. 5-8, at more than 10 locations throughout the state. Vigilant Guard 2019, a 3,000-person, national-level exercise cosponsored by U.S. Northern Command and the National Guard Bureau, will test the state’s response capabilities with a simulated......
