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Temporary Emergency Power Team Readies for Hurricane Season
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District
July 20, 2016 | 1:52
A temporary emergency power team participated in an inter-agency regional power mission exercise (RPME) conducted July 19-21 at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Distribution Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

The newly implemented RPME preps Corps of Engineers PRTs to execute emergency support functions in a field training environment.

The team replicated a temporary emergency power deployment in response to a simulated natural disaster during a three-day training and exercise event. The RPME tested the unit’s ability to execute temporary emergency power operations and shored up readiness before hurricane season intensifies.
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