May 27, 2021

Naval cadet is first Mexican military officer to graduate from US Air Force Academy

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Mexican Navy cadet became the first Mexican military officer in history to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy on May 26, 2021.

May 24, 2021

NORAD and USNORTHCOM hosts commanders’ conference

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, held a conference for senior leaders from all component, subordinate, and region commands at his headquarters on Peterson Air Force Base, May 19-20, 2021.

May 19, 2021

USNORTHCOM and Special Operations Command North discuss the future of SOF for Homeland Defense

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — U.S. Special Operations Command North (SOCNORTH) hosted a Special Operations Forces in Competition and Homeland Defense Workshop from May 11-13, 2021. The workshop brought Special Operations leaders and experts from the Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Coast Guard and other security experts together to shape the future of Special Operations in support of Homeland Defense.

May 4, 2021

Special Operations Forces exercise north of Arctic Circle

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Service members from U.S. Special Operations Command North and the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) recently conducted operations in the Arctic Circle during Exercise Vigilant Shield 21.

April 26, 2021

ARNORTH to oversee military vaccination support to FEMA in Kentucky

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approximately 30 Department of Defense military medical and support personnel will deploy to Kentucky to support federal vaccination efforts in partnership with the state.

April 26, 2021

ARNORTH hosts virtual annual disaster response exercise

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — U.S. Army North, U.S. Northern Command’s Joint Force Land Component Command, will host approximately 750 military and civilian personnel from across the country to take part in its annual disaster response training exercise, Vibrant Response, Apr. 26 to May 8, through virtual collaborative software.

April 12, 2021

4th Infantry Division Soldiers Round Off Vaccination Support at historic first DOD-supported vaccine site

LOS ANGELES — The 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, deployed approximately 220 Soldiers to Los Angeles to assist the state of California and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in administering COVID-19 vaccinations to members of the Los Angeles community from Feb. 16 to April 11, at the California State University Los Angeles Community Vaccination Center. The site was the first vaccination site to receive support from active-duty service members.

April 9, 2021

ARNORTH to oversee military vaccination support to FEMA at four new locations

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approximately 560 Department of Defense military medical and support personnel will deploy to Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota and Oklahoma to support federal vaccination efforts in partnership with the states.

April 6, 2021

U.S. Northern Command executes the second in a series of Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE)

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The second in a series of Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) took place March 22-23, 2021, and was designed to enable cross-combatant command collaboration to generate globally integrated effects using artificial intelligence enabled information. 

April 6, 2021

335th EMDOS Airman translates for Brooklyn CVC community

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Efforts have been underway for almost a month to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to people at the state-led, federally-supported Medgar Evers College Community Vaccination Center in Brooklyn.

April 2, 2021

ARNORTH to oversee military vaccination support to FEMA at three new locations

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approximately 420 Department of Defense military medical and support personnel will deploy to Maryland, Tennessee and Wisconsin to support state-run, federally supported Community Vaccination Centers.

April 1, 2021

Exercise Reveals Advantages Artificial Intelligence Gives in All-Domain Ops

A global information dominance exercise showed the tremendous advantages the Defense Department would realize by applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to all-domain information, Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck said.

April 1, 2021

Deter in Competition, Deescalate in Crisis, and Defeat in Conflict

As the world’s security environment has evolved over time, our legacy systems have become increasingly challenged, even as our attention drifted away from the possibility of major conflict, especially the possibility of conflict in North America.

March 30, 2021

ARNORTH to oversee military vaccination support to FEMA at five new locations

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approximately 860 Department of Defense military medical and support personnel deployed to Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia, and will deploy to Indiana and Missouri, to support state-run, federally supported Community Vaccination Centers.

March 29, 2021

Peterson Airmen support Florida community members

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Air Force Captain Stephanie McIlwraith promised herself she would never return to Florida after her mother’s funeral in August of 2020. Earlier that year, just as the nation began to implement COVID-19 restrictions, McIlwraith’s mother was diagnosed with cancer.