Case Construction Equipment and Miller-Bradford & Risberg provided equipment and product/training support to Team Rubicon as part of Patriot Exercise 2016, a full-scale training exercise at Volk Field Air National Guard Base July 16 to 23.

Case Construction Equipment and Miller-Bradford & Risberg provided equipment and product/training support to Team Rubicon as part of Patriot Exercise 2016, a full-scale training exercise at Volk Field Air National Guard Base July 16 to 23. Team Rubicon provided incident management team support, as well as field-based response support through damage assessments, and chainsaw and heavy equipment operations/training.

Miller-Bradford and Case provided skid steers, excavators and compact excavators, as well as training support, while Paladin Attachments supplied skid steer grapple buckets, for Team Rubicon's heavy equipment training program. A total of 89 Team Rubicon members participated in the event with 15 of those participating in the heavy equipment program.

Training focused on the safe operation and maintenance of equipment, followed by operator proficiency training involving clearing brush and debris, and building demolition — core elements of Team Rubicon's disaster response work.

For more information about Team Rubicon, visit TeamRubiconUSA.org.

For more on Case, visit CaseCE.com.

For more information about Miller-Bradford & Risberg, visit Miller-Bradford.com.

For more about Paladin Attachments, visit PaladinAttachments.com.

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