Paul Condon, Exercise Control Forward deputy director,

Paul Condon, Exercise Control Forward deputy director, U.S. Army North, provides feedback to unit leaders after a training mission to evacuate “patients” from a nursing home Aug. 19, 2011. Soldiers from the 501st Area Support Medical Company, 86th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Campbell, Ky., and the 66th Military Police Company, 504th MP Battalion, 42nd MP Brigade, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., evacuated patients from a nursing home as part of Vibrant Response 12, an annual U.S. Northern Command field training exercise conducted by U.S. Army North. The exercise is part of Army North’s mission to train the nation’s federal military chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear response capability. In the exercise scenario, members of the military’s 5,200-person Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Response Force provide lifesaving and life-sustaining support after a simulated 10-kiloton nuclear detonation in Cincinnati, Ohio.