ALBANY, N.Y. -- Eighteen New York Army Guard Soldiers, who link the Guard’s Homeland Response Force with state officials in an emergency, got a first-hand look at New York’s disaster response nerve center on Nov. 3.
The Soldiers, assigned to the 153rd Troop Command, visited the New York State Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, located in the basement of Building 22 at the Harriman State Campus in Albany.
The visit was designed to strengthen collaboration between the Guard’s disaster response force, and New York state’s Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, according to Lt. Col. Alexander Prezioso, the Homeland Response Force’s senior liaison officer.
The Homeland Response Force, known as the HRF...
11.05.2025 | ALBANY , NEW YORK, US |
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Stephanie Butler