Aug 10, 2011 12:48 PM
With many on the East End worrying if this year’s hurricane season could bring the long-overdue “big one,” members of the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing teamed up with New York Army National Guard troops for a hurricane response exercise last week in Westhampton. The goal of Friday’s exercise was to ensure that rescue operations would run efficiently in the event of an actual storm emergency.
“Operation Rainbow Hurricane” involved bringing the 42nd Infantry Division Mobile Command Post from its home station in Troy, New York, to the Air National Guard base at Francis S. Gabreski Airport on Old Riverhead Road. The exercise was aimed at giving troops from both units the chance to experience every phase of a deployment if a Category 4 storm—the second most intense... more
“Operation Rainbow Hurricane” involved bringing the 42nd Infantry Division Mobile Command Post from its home station in Troy, New York, to the Air National Guard base at Francis S. Gabreski Airport on Old Riverhead Road. The exercise was aimed at giving troops from both units the chance to experience every phase of a deployment if a Category 4 storm—the second most intense... more
