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A South Dakota Civil Air Patrol Cessna 182. Photo from the S.D. CAP. RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO.com) — South Dakota Wing of Civil Air Patrol will conduct dual East and West River training exercises Saturday (March 13) to practice skills used in search and rescue and disaster relief missions. The exercise mission bases will be in Sioux Falls and Custer. “We saw several missing-person searches we assisted with at the end of 2020,” said Col. Nick Gengler, South Dakota Wing commander. “These training missions help hone our skills in the same terrain we would search in a real mission.” Black...

Feb. 26, 2021, entitled "National Preparedness: A Summary and Select Issues" by Lauren R. Stienstra, section research manager, and Shawn Reese, emergency management and homeland security policy analyst: SUMMARY The nation has faced challenges in the effort to respond to, and recover from, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Persistent challenges related to acquisition and delivery of diagnostic tests, production and management of personal protective equipment, and development and distribution of vaccines have introduced new questions about the state of national readiness, for...

WASHINGTON The Navy Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officers (NEPLO) program mobilized 10 Navy Reserve Sailors from Navy Region Naval District Washington and Navy Region Mid-Atlantic units, Jan. 17-24, in support of the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as 46th president of the United States. The NEPLOs served as liaisons providing inauguration information and situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency management agencies and U.S. Army North’s Defense Coordinating Element for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region III — each in support of Joint Task...

  Navy Reserve Captains Tony Nelipovich and Matthew Koerber deployed from Dec. 14 to Jan. 14 to Navajo Nation hospitals in Chinle, Arizona, and Shiprock, New Mexico serving as liaisons between Navy healthcare professionals, the Indian Health Service, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Navajo Nation hospital staff.  Nelipovich operated out of the Task Force-51 command post in Chinle, while Koerber worked at the hospital in Shiprock. Both NEPLOs were under the direction of U.S. Army North, U.S. Northern Command’s Joint Force Land Component Command...

13 The Navy Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officers (NEPLO) program mobilized 10 Navy Reserve Sailors from Navy Region Naval District Washington and Navy Region Mid-Atlantic units, Jan. 17-24, in support of the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as 46th President of the United States. The NEPLOs served as liaisons providing inauguration information and situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency management agencies and U.S. Army North’s Defense Coordinating Element for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region III — each in support of Joint ...