Story by Staff Sgt. Frank O'Brien | 29th Infantry Division | 03.10.2015
Vigilant Guard South Carolina is a federally-funded exercise fostering cooperation between federal, state, and local emergency management agencies and first responders across South Carolina, March 3-12, 2015. Over 5,000 civilians from emergency service agencies and 2,000 Airmen and Soldiers from the National Guard are participating in the exercise. Sam Hodge, Georgetown County's emergency......
Courtesy Story | 228th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade | 03.10.2015
South Carolina National Guard units worked with local emergency management agencies and first responders during a mass casualty exercise that covered both Greenville and Anderson, South Carolina, March 10, 2015, as part of Vigilant Guard S.C. 2015....
Story by Sgt. Tashera Pravato | 108th Public Affairs Detachment | 03.08.2015
Multiple nonprofit organizations have joined forces to support the South Carolina National Guard throughout the state during Vigilant Guard 2015, a regional emergency response exercise focused on agency interoperability during a response to a natural disaster....
Story by Staff Sgt. Frank O'Brien | 29th Infantry Division | 03.08.2015
South Carolina National Guard Airmen and Virginia National Guard Soldiers are partnering to provide communications support to military, federal, state and local emergency management services as part of Vigilant Guard March 4-12, 2015, in Georgetown, South Carolina. Vigilant Guard is a series of federally funded disaster-response drills conducted by National Guard units working with federal,......
Story by Airman 1st Class Ashleigh Pavelek | 169th Fighter Wing | 03.08.2015
During its history, South Carolina has at times been prone to hurricanes or other natural disasters that can strike at any time. To prepare for such emergencies, the Mobile Emergency Department and the South Carolina National Guard teamed up March 8, 2015, to treat casualties with simulated injuries during Vigilant Guard South Carolina, a joint multi-state disaster response exercise designed......
Story by Tech. Sgt. Jorge Intriago | 169th Fighter Wing | 03.08.2015
Mass casualty response exercises bring return on investment of time and resources during large-scale state exercises, such as the ones which took place during Vigilant Guard South Carolina. One particular scenario brought together the City of Georgetown’s first responders, South Carolina’s National Guardsmen and the S.C. State Guard to the aid of simulated victims of a tornado March 8, 2015....
Story by Airman 1st Class Ashleigh Pavelek | 169th Fighter Wing | 03.07.2015
Part exercise, part preparing for the next storm, Soldiers from the South Carolina Army National Guard dug deep through mud and trenches to fill dump trucks with dirt to refurbish the roads in the event of a washout after a hurricane....
