SITUATIONAL AWARENESS COLOR CODE

After the terrorist attack the Bush administration in March 2002 came up with the Department of Homeland Security Advisory System, a five-color scheme known as the  terrorism alert system which measured the threat level of potential attacks.

From that point on, our country had its proverbial “head on a swivel” and every day had one of these colors as follows:

Red – the highest level, meant severe risk of terrorist attack

Orange – meant high risk

Yellow – meant elevated risk

Blue – meant guarded risk

Green – the lowest level, meant low risk of terrorist attack