Hampton-based Virginia Guard troops navigate the Chesapeake during joint training event

NORFOLK, Va. — More than a dozen Hampton-based Virginia National Guard Soldiers loaded their Humvees onto Army ships and traveled across the Chesapeake Bay during a joint training exercise Nov. 2 with Fort Eustis Soldiers.

The Guardsmen, from Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, traveled from Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Norfolk to Fort Monroe in Hampton thanks to the Soldiers and Landing Craft Mechanized boats of the 1098th Transportation Detachment.

The hour-long trip was a chance to familiarize the Guard troops with the process of traveling across the water should the need arise following a natural or man-made disaster.

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