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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Forest County Drone Company Agrees to Military Deal, Takes Part in Disaster Simulation
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:22
	Publish Date:		2021-06-17 11:39:41
	Description:		Blades of helicopters slice incessantly through the western Wisconsin sky. “Security Forces is finding people in a search and rescue exercise. They’re finding people and they’re evaluating their needs and they’re sending them out on helicopters, in case they need medical care,” explains Lt. Col. Sarah Ashley Nickloes of the U.S. Air Force and Tennessee Air National Guard. National Guard soldiers and airmen, alongside civilian emergency crews, lift mannequins and live actors onto stretchers. This is PATRIOT 21 at Fort McCoy and Volk Field near Tomah, a disaster simulation that brings together more than 1,000 people from 26 states. “So, we had an earthquake, a notional earthquake, that happened just south of here,” Nickloes says of the situation. “We’re receiving locations so that we can respond to the people that are nearby and the people that are flowing into the area.” Some of the camouflage-clad National Guard soldiers and airmen have been deployed overseas in the past. But the Guard
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