Story by Spc. Ryan Hills | 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.26.2014
Soldiers of 2nd Platoon, 60th Engineer Company, 11th Engineer Battalion from Fort Benning, Georgia, conducted urban search and rescue training here July 26 in support of Vibrant Response ‘14....
Story by Sgt. Thomas Belton | 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.26.2014
Soldiers from 3rd Platoon, 293rd Military Police Company, conducted joint operations with Task Force 83, the 83rd Chemical Battalion, both from Ft. Steward, Georgia as part of Vibrant Response ’14 here, July 26....
Story by Sgt. Thomas Belton | 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.25.2014
Members of Indiana Task Force One (TF1) used power tools, such as chainsaws and pneumatic drills, to breach concrete walls during Exercise Vibrant Response ‘14 Wednesday. It’s all part of the training conducted during this exercise to better prepare for natural and man-made disasters. The task force is composed of police officers, firefighters and paramedics and is one of 28 Federal......
Story by Spc. Ryan Hills | 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.25.2014
Soldiers from the 92nd Chemical Company conducted a casualty extraction mission at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, July 25....
Story by Spc. Anthony Zane | 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.23.2014
A post-apocalyptic horror movie wouldn’t be complete without blood, guts and gore, zombies, disaster and buildings turned to rubble. And a field training exercise that focuses on a catastrophic domestic incident is not complete without the same level of gore by use of live participants complete with gushing wounds, broken bones and bloody limbs....
Story by Master Sgt. Ralph Branson | 121st Air Refueling Wing | 07.22.2014
Airmen from the 121st Air Refueling Wing participated in a major homeland emergency response exercise conducted by U.S. Northern Command at Camp Atterbury, Ind. Joint Exercise Vibrant Response involves more than 5,500 military and civilian personnel from 28 U.S. states and territories. It is considered the nation’s premier disaster response exercise and includes participants from the......
Story by Spc. Ryan Hills | 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.21.2014
A UH-60L Black Hawk crew from A Company, 5th Battalion of the 159th Aviation Regiment teamed up with civilians to install and test a new radiation measuring system....
Story by Staff Sgt. Timothy Koster | 362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.20.2014
Approximately 5,500 civil and military personnel from 28 U.S. states and territories have arrived here and at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex in Butlerville, Indiana, in preparation of Vibrant Response 14 (VR 14), the nation’s premiere Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Response Enterprise (CRE) disaster response exercise, to be held from July 21 through Aug. 7....