CH (COL) Charles Nalls has been awarded the Master Military Emergency Management Specialist qualification. Students must complete advanced emergency management practical assignments, various Train-the-Trainer certifications and related advanced training programs. The Master MEMS badge also involves a comprehensive MEMS Academy resident capstone exercise. For the exercise component, Chaplain Nalls directed a team of Maryland Defense Force Chaplains during Operation Vigilant Guard. a joint exercise to improve command and control and operational relationships with internal military and external civilian and military partners against homeland security threats. Vigilant Guard 2010 included a scenario in which an explosion collapses part of a chemical production facility causing mass casualties and trapping numerous personnel in the building. MDDF Chaplains provided spiritual support in the scenario, as well as real time religious support to participants including conducting religious services.
Chaplain Nalls, a recipient of the Maryland Distinguished Service Cross, the state military department’s highest award, recently became Division Chaplain for the Virginia Defense Force in February 2011. He serves as rector of Saint Alban’s Anglican-Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia. Chaplain Nalls and his family are residents of Ginter Park in Richmond’s North Side.
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