News Story
They say an Army marches on its stomach... the troops have to be well fed. Well, thanks to our Brigade, the Auckland-based USAR contingent was despatched to manoeuvres in the Manawatu having had a full breakfast. More than 50 Urban Search and Rescue personnel are currently on exercises in Palmerston North, part of their application for international accreditation which will enable them to be deployed abroad. Their assessment and planning of an emergency situation is being assessed by Classifiers from overseas, followed by extrication of "patients" from beneath piles of concrete rubble simulating a collapsed building. Breakfast for the USAR team before they departed was prepared at Auckland's Regional Headquarters, centred on the mobile canteen, itself "inspected" by curious visiting Classifiers who found the concept novel and took photos of it both inside and out. For the record, the breakfast menu included fruit juices, sausages, steak, bacon, eggs and onion with toast, coffee and tea.
