Two C-17s landed Monday afternoon at Helena Regional Airport to shuttle 15 members of the Montana Nationwide Guard 83rd Civil Assist Crew, vans and different tools for a five-day coaching mission at a Naval Air Station in Florida.
They got here from the New York Nationwide Guard with the primary plane touchdown about 2 p.m.
Troopers with the Montana Nationwide Guard 83rd Civil Assist Crew examine their tools on Monday earlier than a coaching mission at a Naval Air Station in Florida.
The crew makes a speciality of supporting civil authorities at incidents that contain chemical, organic, radiological and nuclear high-yield explosives. It advises on response actions and requests for extra state and federal army forces. Its transportation unit features a command automobile operations trailer, a communications automobile, an laboratory automobile and several other common objective automobiles.
Varied models have supported the Boston Marathon, Tremendous Bowl 49, a papal go to, a state of the union deal with and different particular safety occasions. They’re federal resourced, skilled and sustained, however state managed, officers stated.
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Members obtain greater than 650 hours of hazmat and high-tech coaching from businesses such because the Federal Emergency Administration Company, the Division of Power, the Division of Justice and Environmental Safety Company. Advance groups deploy inside 90 minutes and the primary group inside three hours.
Grasp Sgt. Michael Touchette, of the Montana Nationwide Guard Public Affairs Workplace, stated these sorts of workout routines assist a number of totally different guard models with the coaching, noting not solely does the Montana unit get coaching however the C-17 crews get much-needed flight coaching as effectively.
He stated models from South Dakota and Florida had been collaborating within the coaching as effectively. And he stated the C-17s come to Helena for guard enterprise annually or much less.
The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is 174 ft lengthy and has a wingspan of 169 ft. It’s able to speedy strategic supply of troops and cargo to most important working bases or on to ahead bases within the deployment space.
The utmost payload capability is 170,900 kilos and its most gross takeoff weight is 585,000 kilos.
