![A Soldier from the 178th Engineer Company from Fort Polk, La., searches for radiation amongst the wreckage following a simulated nuclear blast, July 28, during Vibrant Response 13. The Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana features numerous buildings and structures that exercise participants are required to clear. (DOD photo by Sgt. 1st Class Raymond J. Piper)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130216085102im_/http://soldiers.dodlive.mil/files/2012/08/Vibrant-Response_20120728_Day-3_064-236x121.jpg)
Responding to a ‘disaster’ in the heartland
16 August 2012Service members respond to simulated mayhem and destruction as part of Vibrant Response 13.
Service members respond to simulated mayhem and destruction as part of Vibrant Response 13.
Beginning this October, the Army will field the first integrated group of networked technologies — radios, sensors and associated equipment and software — that will for the first time deliver an integrated voice and data capability throughout the entire brigade combat team formation.
The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) is the Army's only active duty unit on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to receive the remains of service members fallen in Iraq or Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base.
In double record-setting fashion, Sgt. Vincent Hancock became the first shotgun shooter to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in men's skeet.