A Vietnamese volunteer undergoes chemical decontamination procedures
during the Aug. 2017 Disaster Management Engagement Activity culminating
exercise alongside their counterparts from Vietnam's National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response, and...
Oregon National Guard Sgt. Jessika Lammert with the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), working alongside her Vietnamese counterpart, demonstrates chemical decontamination techniques to members of Vietnam's National...
Oregon National Guard Lt. Col. Jeffrey Copeck (left) and Brig. Gen. Mark Crosby (second to left), observe the August 2017 Disaster Management Engagement Activity culminating exercise alongside their counterparts from Vietnam's National Committee for ...
A group of doctors and nurses with Vietnam's National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response, and Search and Rescue (VINASARCOM), work alongside members of the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) during the August...
Oregon National Guard Lt. Col. Oliver Wisco, with the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), teaches members of Vietnam's National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response, and Search and Rescue (VINASARCOM) patient t...
Oregon National Guard Sgt. Jessika Lammert with the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), demonstrates chemical decontamination techniques to members of Vietnam's National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response, an...
Oregon National Guard Cpt. Matt Keelin, a nurse with the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), bridges the language barrier through chess games during a break in presentations during the August 2017 Disaster Managemen...
U.S. Marine Chief Warrant Officer-4 Christopher Joy, CBRNE officer for III Marine Expeditionary Force out of Okinawa, Japan, gives a presentation on the capabilities of the U.S. Marine Corps CBRNE response force in the U.S. Pacific Command area to me...
Oregon National Guard Lt. Col. Oliver Wisco (center) and Maj. Christopher Webb (right), doctors with the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), discuss medical considerations for a chemical disaster with one of their p...
Oregon National Guard Brig. Gen. Mark Crosby, Joint Domestic Operations commander, joined members of the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) during the August 2017 Disaster Management Engagement Activity (DMEA) held ...
Oregon National Guard Brig. Gen. Mark Crosby, Joint Domestic Operations commander, joined members of the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) during the 2017 Disaster Management Engagement Activity (DMEA) held in Hano...
Members of the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force
Package (CERFP) joined more than 60 members of Vietnam's National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response, and Search and Rescue (VINASARCOM) from around Vietnam for a week-long e...
Three members of the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) discuss various methods to respond to a chemical disaster during a break between presentations at the 2017 Disaster Management Engagement Activity (DMEA) held ...
Oregon National Guard Tech. Sgt. Eric Hubbard, team leader and training Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge for the 142nd Fighter Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, helps lift a tent in place in preparation for the 2017 Disaster Management Engagem...
Members of the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force
Package (CERFP) set up equipment and tents prior to the official start of the 2017 Disaster Management Engagement Activity (DMEA) held in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 2017. The CERFP work...
From left to right: Oregon National Guard Staff Sergeants Paul Barrett and Carson Mather, Capt. Mathew Keelin and Maj. Christopher Webb, members of the Oregon National Guard's CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), inventory two connexes of m...
U.S. Marine Chief Warrant Officer-4 Christopher Joy (left), a CBRNE officer for III Marine Expeditionary Force, and U.S. Marine Cpl. John Chun (right), a CBRNE noncommissioned officer for 3rd Marine Division CBRNE Platoon,out of Okinawa, Japan, prepa...
PORTLAND, Ore. - Members of the Oregon National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear defense (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package participated in the 2017 Disaster Management Engagement Activity held in Hanoi, Vietnam, Aug. 2017.
The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield explosive Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) worked alongside representatives from the U.S. Marine Corps in order to share information and tactics for chemical disaster response with their partners in Vietnam's National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response, and Search and Rescue.
During the training, subject matter experts from Oregon's CERFP team and VINASARCOM shared concepts and best practices in the medical and chemical triage fields.
"We hope we never actually have to respond to these types of threats, but it's our mission to train for it, and events like this show aggressors that we have the ability to respond," said Oregon Air National Guard Lt. Col. Oliver Wisco, commander, medical group, CERFP Detachment 1. "This is expertise that we at the Oregon National Guard have and can share with other services and our state partners."
A key point for this training is the ability for the troops from both nations to develop professional relationships and to work together as one team during the event of a disaster.
We're conducting this combined, joint training here in Vietnam to increase and validate our interoperability with our partners in the U.S. Pacific Command area of responsibility," said Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 4 Christopher Joy, a CBRN defense officer with the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force. "The interaction that we've had with our Vietnamese partners has been absolutely amazing. We may have language barriers, but we all speak CBRNE and that is what is bringing us together and strengthening our partnership."
The weeklong exercise culminated in a full demonstration exercise, observed by senior officials from Oregon and Vietnam. During the final exercise, Vietnamese and American teams worked together to demonstrate the skills and techniques learned throughout the engagement.
The partnership between the Oregon National Guard and VINASARCOM began in 2012 as part of the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program, which pairs states with countries around the world for the purpose of supporting security cooperation between the U.S. and other nations. As state partners and the lead military agencies for emergency management in their respective country and state, the relationship between Oregon and VINASARCOM recognizes that building and maintaining capabilities as emergency managers in times of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is for the benefit of all countries and promotes stability, prosperity and domestic resiliency in the Pacific region.
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