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MAJ Chrystal Atkin gets some help from MAJ Michael Wheeler-Bey, COL Victor Metta, SGT Dante Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty posed with some of the DCDF personnel who

her friends in hanging a DCDF banner atop Jackson and MAJ Sharon McNamee ensured that a secured area provided security for the District's Martin Luther King Parade on April 5, 2008.

the stage at the 2008 Martin Luther King was free of passersby during the 2008 Martin Luther King Parade

Parade in Washington's Ward 8. in Washington

Several members of the DC Defense Force posed for a group photo at the conclusion of the 2008 Martin Luther King Parade in Anacostia on April 5.

DCDF Personnel provided physical security at the parade for the second consecutive year. Shown here from left to right are: Row 1 -- COL Timothy

Perkins, MAJ Sharon McNamee, BG Percy Reeder, MAJ Chrystal Atkin, LTC Stanley Grabia; Row 2 -- MAJ Michael Wheeler-Bey, SGT Delonte

Whitmire, COL David Fox; Row 3 -- PV2 Jeremiah Mickey, MAJ David Bowman, 1SG Robert Smith, COL Victor Metta.

Photo by Maurice G. Fitzgerald

Photo by Maurice G. Fitzgerald Photo by Maurice G. Fitzgerald

Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty gave beads to people along the parade route at the Ward 8 Councilman Marion Barry greeted well-wishers at the

2008 Martin Luther King Parade. In the background are PV2 Jeremiah Mickey and 2008 Martin Luther King Parade. At his left is MAJ David Bowman,

SGM Aarron Gladden, who were among the DCDF troops providing parade security. who was part of the DCDF security team for the parade.

BG Percy Reeder, COL Ralphelle LeNoir and COL Victor COL Victor Metta, COL Ralphelle LeNoir and SGM Aarron Gladden BG Percy Reeder adjusts a

Metta prepare tote bags for a low-income energy conference Aarron Gladden compare notes at an exercise conducted with the CERT volunteer's water pack

in Washington -- a community service mission in June 2006. District of Columbia Citizens Corps, of which the DC Defense Force is during the DCDF's July 4, 2006,

community service mission in June 2006. a member mission on The Mall.

CPT Barbara Pittman was among the COL Timothy Perkins and a District of Columbia police officer portrayed victims of an

DCDF personnel who played the roles explosion during a disaster training exercise conducted by Amtrak at Union Station

of victims at an Amtrak disaster in Washington, DC. More than a dozen people from the DC Defense Force took part

exercise. in the exercise as role players and observers.

DCDF members get instruction on securing a patient in a Stokes DCDF troops practice helicopter med-evac PFC Lester Bond and CPL Bruce Kaufman ride to the skids of

basket during a helicopter hoist course conducted by the U.S. Park techniques during August training provided by of a hovering U.S. Park Police chopper during a helicopter

Police on August 30, 2006. the U.S. Park Police. hoist class in August 2006.

CPT Michelle Staton and COL Timothy Perkins Members receive land navigation instruction from COL DCDF members check their compass course while on a

begin the ride upward on a "jungle penetrator" Victor Metta prior to a search-and-rescue exercise. grid search during search-and-rescue training

during a helicopter hoist course for DCDF personnel.

CPT David Bowman offers some Instructor Nancy Wright demonstrates how to apply a sling to PV1 PV1 Jason Miller practices immobilizing a

tips on CPR to CPL Nicole Small. PV1 Ryan Brunner's arm during first aid training. fracture during a November first aid class.

COL Timothy Perkins (upper right) shows members of Company A, 1st Members of Company A, 1st Battalion, mug for the camera during a

Battalion the "right" way to do pushups during PT at a January 2007 drill. break at their January 2007 drill.

A DCDF team provided physical security and visitor assistance during the District's annual Unifest DC Mayor Adrian Fenty posed with two of his escorts, COL

street festival in June 2007. Timothy Perkins and CPT David Bowman, during Unifest 2007.

MAJ Sharon McNamee, CPT David Bowman and SGT Delonte Whitmire and DC Metropolitan Police manned DCDF personnel who served as parade marshals for the 2007 Veterans'

COL Timothy Perkins posed beside a supply truck the launch point for the 2007 Veterans' Day Parade as a group Day Parade prepared to fall in as the final marching unit for the parade

during preparations for the 2007 Veterans' Day of anti-military protesters heckled parade participants. along Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC.

Parade in Washington, DC.