Story by Sgt. Katherine Dowd | 167th Theater Sustainment Command | 08.06.2012
The 167th Theater Sustainment Command, Fort McClellan, Ala. participated in a military exchange program during July and August. Sgt. Michael Schopper and Staff Sgt. Christoph Ebner from Roding, Germany and Sgt. Jason Griffiths from Sheffield, UK, got the chance to learn about a wide range of American military operations during their short stay....
Story by Sgt. Katryn McCalment | 50th Public Affairs Detachment | 08.05.2012
After a week of realistic, hands-on training during Vibrant Response 13, the soldiers of Task Force - Operations have begun trickling back into Camp Atterbury, tired and eager to complete the journey home to their respective states....
Story by Sgt. Candice Harrison | 24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 08.05.2012
Guardsmen from A and B Companies, 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment, out of Gary, Ind., and Logansport, Ind., practice entering an American town, locating a Red Cross worker and returning them to safety at Mascatatuck Urban Training Complex, Ind., Aug. 5....
Story by Sgt. Diandra Harrell | 50th Public Affairs Detachment | 08.05.2012
Multiple lines of military convoys fill the large gravel lot in the staging area of Forward Operating Base Panther. In a small tent tucked away in the right-hand corner of the staging area, a group of five petroleum supply specialists try to escape the heat between refueling vehicles. Traffic is high as convoys return to the FOB from various missions. The fuelers take their positions as......
Story by Staff Sgt. Keith Anderson | U.S. Army North | 08.03.2012
U.S. Army North and First Army have teamed up to train and mentor more than 9,000 service members and civilians in responding to natural or man-made disasters in a major incident exercise from July 26-Aug. 13 in locations throughout southern Indiana and northern Kentucky....
Story by Staff Sgt. Keith Anderson | U.S. Army North | 08.03.2012
A small team of soldiers, airmen, FBI agents and scientists set up a forward operating base near the hot-zone and start collecting samples to be rushed off to national laboratories to be analyzed to help track the nuclear device to those responsible. That is the training scenario for Prominent Hunt 12, a smaller exercise within Vibrant Response 13, a major incident exercise conducted by U.S.......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army North | 08.03.2012
While most members of the military are lauded as defenders of freedom and protectors of the nation, one unit with U.S. Army North takes the title literally as one of the first responders to catastrophic incidents – both natural and man-made – within North America. U.S. Army North’s Task Force 51, based at Fort Sam Houston, will serve as an integral part of Vibrant Response 13, the......
Story by Sgt. Terence Ewings | 24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 08.03.2012
Responding to a distress call from local civilian authorities, soldiers from the 116th Military Police Company out of Fort Riley, Kan., conducted a search and evacuation exercise Aug. 3 at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind., as part of Vibrant Response 13....
