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Written by 1st Lt Terese Barta
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
 Volk Field, WI - Planting terrorist bombs, getting shot at, suffering limb amputations and even getting food poisoning was all in a days work for 19 members of the Wisconsin Wing who have been volunteering for Operation Patriot this week.
These weren't actual events, but rather examples of the scenarios designed to train emergency medical personnel and other members of the National Guard participating in Patriot missions.
Operation Patriot is a large scale exercise that integrates U.S. Army, Air Force, and Army and Air National Guard, as well as units from the Netherlands and Canada. It the largest joint training mission sponsored National Guard Bureau. Its purpose is to provide National Guard units from across the country with realistic field training.
There are about 3900 Guardsmen participating in the exercises held at Volk Field and Fort McCoy. For 1200 of them, this is real world preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan next year.
The exercise has been in existence since the mid 1990s under various names including Joint Apache and Global Patriot. The whole exercise takes place over a three-week time span, that also includes individual training designed by participating unit commanders, such as firearm qualifications and buddy/self care.
This is the fourth year that the Wisconsin Wing has participated, due to the involvement of Lt. Col John Potterton of the Madison Composite Squadron. It started with about 8 volunteers and has grown to over double that number. Wisconsin Wing is the only wing that has ever participated. Eight squadrons are represented this year.
Members of CAP participate by primarily serving as casualties. They often go through a make-up technique called "moulage" to create the types of injuries needed in each scenario.
In addition to emergency medical exercises, Amongst the numerous scenario-based training exercises are homeland defense, nuclear biological chemical training/decontamination, joint combat search and rescue, combat convoy training and close air support. There will also be a mass casualty exercise during the week.
Activities will continue through Thursday, July 23.
July 20, 2008. Planting terrorist bombs, getting shot at, suffering limb amputations and even getting food poisoning was all in a days work for 19 members of the Wisconsin Wing who have been volunteering for Operation Patriot this week.
These weren't actual events, but rather examples of the scenarios designed to train emergency medical personnel and other members of the National Guard participating in Patriot missions.
Operation Patriot is a large scale exercise that integrates U.S. Army, Air Force, and Army and Air National Guard, as well as units from the Netherlands and Canada. It the largest joint training mission sponsored National Guard Bureau. Its purpose is to provide National Guard units from across the country with realistic field training.
There are about 3900 Guardsmen participating in the exercises held at Volk Field and Fort McCoy. For 1200 of them, this is real world preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan next year.
The exercise has been in existence since the mid 1990s under various names including Joint Apache and Global Patriot. The whole exercise takes place over a three-week time span, that also includes individual training designed by participating unit commanders, such as firearm qualifications and buddy/self care.
This is the fourth year that the Wisconsin Wing has participated, due to the involvement of Lt. Col John Potterton of the Madison Composite Squadron. It started with about 8 volunteers and has grown to over double that number. Wisconsin Wing is the only wing that has ever participated. Eight squadrons are represented this year.
Members of CAP participate by primarily serving as casualties. They often go through a make-up technique called "moulage" to create the types of injuries needed in each scenario.
In addition to emergency medical exercises, Amongst the numerous scenario-based training exercises are homeland defense, nuclear biological chemical training/decontamination, joint combat search and rescue, combat convoy training and close air support. There will also be a mass casualty exercise during the week.
Activities will continue through Thursday, July 23.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 21 July 2008 )
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