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Video by Sgt. Danyelle Lanford

Exercise Vibrant Response 24: How To Handle A Radiation Event

Joint Task Force Civil Support

April 24, 2024 | 2:28

U.S. Air Force Leigh Durden, a liaison officer for the Air Force Radiation Team, explains what to do in a radiation event during exercise Vibrant Response 24 in Fort Carson, Colorado, April 23, 2023. Vibrant Response is an annual U.S. Northern Command directed command post exercise. As U.S. Northern Command's Joint Force Land Component Command, U.S. Army North is Vibrant Response 24's executive agent responsible for ensuring the training focuses on a simulated Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) disaster scenario designed to validate U.S. Northern Command's CBRN Response Enterprise's ability to exercise short-notice and no-notice deployment of military forces at the request of civil authorities to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and mitigate property damage following a catastrophic CBRN event. (U.S. Army National Guard video by Sgt. Danyelle Lanford)