Georgia National Guard Joint Task Force 781 CERFP

The Georgia National Guard's Joint Task Force 781 CERFP is in Savannah this week for training at the Savannah Combat Readiness Training Center. CERFP is an acronym for(Chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear and high explosive) Response Force Package. Below are two links for stories about Task Force 781's training:

Savannah Morning News
WTOC TV

Task Force 781 is a response team tasked with responding to nuclear, biological, chemical, and explosive incidents. It was created six months ago as a Joint Task Force comprised of pre-existing Georgia Army National Guard and Air National Guard units and is designed to mobilize and respond to an incident scene within 6 hours. The units that comprise the task force are:

• 781st CERFP Battalion (GA ARNG)
• 878th Engineers (GA ARNG)
• 4th Civil Support Team (Joint)
• 138th Chemical Company (GA ARNG)
• 202nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal (GA ARNG)
• 248th Medical Company (GA ARNG)
• 116th Medical Company (GA ANG)

This morning I took a trip out to the CRTC in attempt to monitor activity from the CERFP but there didn't seem to be any activity at the time. I saw the exercise area mentioned in the news reports above, but no Task Force personnel were seen on site.

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net