Exercises test base's ability to respond to CBRNE incidents

Tech. Sgt. Joe Mulgado, left, and Senior Airman Gene Davila assist Senior Airmen Omar Gutierrez-Moreno, left, and John Gonzalez, all from the 377th Bioengineering Flight, into their exercise hazmat suits during an exercise held behind the Commissary, March 17. U.S. Air Force Photo by Dennis Carlson

Exercises Test Base's Ability to Respond to CBRNE Incidents

Published March 31, 2010
By By Staff Sgt. Samuel J. Ortiz
377th Bioenvironmental Management Flight

Kirtland Air Force Base, NM -- Evaluators from the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks City-Base, Texas, presented scenarios to test the Kirtland AFB Bioenvironmental Management Flight's ability to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high yield explosive incidents.

They tested bioenvironmental management's ability to use their homeland defense equipment and supply allowance which is standard to all home station bioenvironmental engineering flights.

This is in preparation for Air Force-level competition that will take place In May at the National Center for Response in West Virginia. The week of exercises was a prerequisite for determining the response team that will represent Air Force Materiel Command. It included five scenarios -- one table top and four base-wide response exercises.

U.S. Air Force Photo by Dennis Carlson