NCANG and Central Emergency Management Exercise Tornado Strike

Airman First Class Bradley Henry, radio frequency system operator for the 156th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron listens as Roman Kaluta, Customer Advocate for Raytheon Communications provides information on interoperability radio equipment during a North Carolina Emergency Response Rally held in Greensboro, N.C., April 10, 2015. The North Carolina Air National Guard supplied the Mobile Emergency Operations Center (MEOC) during the exercise. NCANG partnered with more than twenty Emergency Management agencies over a two-day period to test communications during a natural disaster exercise and to showcase each agency’s capabilities. The MEOC provides the community’s incident commanders with emergency response support and interoperable communications including the Raytheon ACU-200 which allows communication between radios, telephones and other devices. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Laura Montgomery, 145th Public Affairs/Released)