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Tag: Exercise Vibrant Response 17

Exercise Vibrant Response: planning and preparing for the worst
May 12, 2017 — When disaster strikes and chaos sets in, people forget their cities’ emergency evacuation plans and highways get stacked with traffic. People get hurt and communication gets cut off. Vibrant Response 17, or VR17, is a command post exercise that simulates the detonation of a nuclear bomb in a major city within the United States. The annual exercise takes place at Camp Atterbury, Ind. This year it was integrated with Guardian Response 17, or GR17, at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, also in Indiana. ... MORE

Col. Eric McGraw and Air Force Col. Ann Yelderman, both Regional Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officers with FEMA Region VII - Defense Coordinating Element, Kansas City, Mo., look over a spreadsheet on the computer during Exercise Vibrant Response 17 at Camp Atterbury, Ind., on May 7, 2017. Vibrant Response is an annual training exercise that tests the capability of federal response forces to prepare them for mission assumption June 1.