California Army National Guard Sgt. Joseph Mingram,

California Army National Guard Sgt. Joseph Mingram, an IT specialist who use to be in the Navy and is now assigned to the 115th Regional Support Group in Roseville walks his driver out of the armory compound on their way to an intermediate staging base at the Sierra College in Rocklin, Jan. 6, 2012, during the 115th Regional Support Group's Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise, which had 60 vehicles and 217 troops moving their wheeled assets around the state in response to a earthquake scenario. The troops, like Mingram, who is also qualified as a 94F Computer/Detection Systems Repair, a 94R Avionic and Survivability Equipment Repair and a 25B Informations Systems Operator Analyst, reported around 2 a.m., performed maintenance on their vehicles and received briefings about what to expect. This is the first training that solely focuses on moving the vehicle specialists and their hauling machines into position to respond to a state emergency.