The New York Guard (State Defense Force) recently posted more content from their recent Statewide Emergency Communications Exercise. The content focuses on the 14th Detachment of the New York Guard, based out of Long Island, NY, as well as the 15th Detachment, which is based out of New York City.
The Exercise focused on testing communications interoperability between multiple State and Federal Agencies. The organizations involved in the exercise included the New York Guard, Naval Militia (US Navy & US Marine Corps Reserve Personnel), Civil Air Patrol, as well as the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES).
New York Guard service members from the 14th Detachment, 88th Area Command (AC) based on Long Island, practice their communication skills with the MERN (Military Emergency Radio Network during Empire Challenge exercise, at Eisenhower Park, Long Island, NY, on July 16th, 2022.
New York Guard service members from the 15th Detachment, 88th Area Command (AC) based on Long Island, practice their communication skills with the MERN (Military Emergency Radio Network) during Empire Challenge exercise, at the Staten Island Armory, on July 16th, 2022.
The 15th Detachment communicated with New Guard services members of the 14th Detachment, 88th AC in Nassau County (Eisenhower Park), and the 56th AC at Camp Smith, Cortlandt Manor during the Statewide exercise.
Source: New York Guard
