Mike Rozsypal, chief, Exercise Control Forward, U.S.

Mike Rozsypal, chief, Exercise Control Forward, U.S. Army North, leads a tour of senior military leaders through a technical rescue underway Aug. 1 at Muscatatuck. (From left to right) Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, commanding general, U.S. Army North, and senior commander, Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, Texas; escorted Gen. Charles Jacoby Jr., commanding general, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U. S. Northern Command; and Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger, Adjutant General, Indiana National Guard; as they visited Soldiers conducting the technical rescue and search and extraction mission at a collapsed parking garage. DoD units such as TF51 will be playing a vital role in working with and supporting local, state and federal agencies at Vibrant Response 13. VR13 is a major field training exercise conducted July 26-Aug. 13 by U.S. Northern Command and led by U.S. Army North. The catastrophic incident exercise, based on a notional detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear device in a major Midwestern city, has more than 9,000 service members and civilians in 11 training locations and airfields spread across 5,000 square miles in southern Indiana and northern Kentucky.