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9-1-1: Nuclear detonation; Exercise Vigilant Guard tests National Guard's role as first military responder
May 16, 2007
National Guardmembers search for the wounded and the dead during Exercise Vigilant Guard at the National Guard's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center near Butlerville, Ind., on May 12, 2007. More than 2,000 National Guard personnel are taking part in Vigilant Guard, an 11-day exercise in Indiana that tests the National Guard as first military responder in support of the governor and the state emergency management agency after the simulated detonation of an 10-kiloton nuclear device.
Attaches Survey U.S. Disaster-Response Capabilities
May 15, 2007
Air Force Maj. Gen. Bill Etter, director of strategic plans and policy for the National Guard Bureau, talks with attaches prior to their visit to the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind., where more than 2,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of state and federal emergency response agencies worked through the disaster scenario of a 10-kiloton nuclear explosion in Indianapolis. Attaches from Serbia, Jordan, Kenya, Tunisia, Bolivia and Hungary, walked through the stages of the exercise, receiving briefs and asking questions of those participating.
Vigilant Guard: Voices of experience add to the training
May 14, 2007
Mothers wore combat boots and gas masks on their special day
May 14, 2007
Illinois Army National Guard Sgt. Celia Rodriguez was a mom wearing a protective mask on Mother's Day while taking part in the National Guard's training exercise Vigilant Guard. She was conducting decontamination operations at the Indiana National Guard's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center.
Members of Air Guard medical groups unite for Vigilant Guard
May 14, 2007
Air National Guard medical technicians from the Illinois National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) evaluate a role-playing victim of a collapsed building for injuries in mid-May as part of the National Guard training exercise Vigilant Guard in Indiana.
Hands that held weapons now hold hope
May 12, 2007
Indiana's vigilant medical crew provides care for the caregivers
May 10, 2007
An aeromedical air crew member from the 121st Medical Company, District of Columbia Army National Guard, prepares a UH-1H helicopter at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Butlerville, Ind., to provide medical support for the National Guard training exercise Vigilant Guard.
Army to invest $100 million in Muscatatuck; major training exercise to be conducted in May
April 17, 2007