Video by Victoria Granado | Alaska National Guard | 05.18.2021
National Guard Civil Support Team units from twelve states, along with partnering local, state, and federal agencies and organizations, totaling approximately 250 people, participated in Exercise ORCA 2021 at various training locations in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and Seward, May 17-20. Exercise ORCA 2021 was designed to allow all participants to respond to hazardous materials......
Video by Sgt. 1st Class Jason Alvarez | Joint Force Headquarters - Vermont National Guard Public Affairs | 01.03.2019
The Vermont National Guard's 15th CST held an exercise in cooperation with St. Michael's College in Colchester Vermont. The college has several empty dorm buildings on campus that they allow emergency services to utilize for training. In a real world event the CST provides initial advice on what the agent may be, assist first responders in the detection assessment process, and are the first......
Video by Tech. Sgt. John Anderson | I.G. Brown Training and Education Center | 11.22.2011
Seven states took part in the Operation Sooner Response training event in Oklahoma by sending their civil support teams (CST) to respond to different pre-staged incidents ranging from rescuing people from a collapsed structure to checking a suspected building for a planned terror attack involving chemical, biological or radiological threat. Story by SGT Christopher Bruce...
