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May 20, 2025

USS Charleston deploys to U.S. Northern Command Area of Responsibility

NORFOLK, Va. — The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) departed Naval Base San Diego to support U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) southern border operations, May 20.

May 19, 2025

1st Combat Aviation Brigade assumes aviation operations for Joint Task Force – Southern Border

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) officially arrived at Libby Army Airfield on April 29, assuming aviation responsibilities in support of Joint Task Force–Southern Border (JTF-SB), reinforcing Army aviation’s enduring role in securing the southern border.

April 23, 2025

Task Force Desert Eagle – New Capabilities in a New Era

FORT BLISS, Texas — Customs and Border Patrol and Joint Task Force – Southern Border face the challenging task of monitoring over 2,000 miles of border through high desert terrain by using a new asset to the U.S. Military; 3D printing and drones.

Ground-Based Operational Surveillance System (Expeditionary) (G-BOSS(E))

April 21, 2025

Task Force 716 implements G-BOSS-(E) system in support of southern border mission

SAN DIEGO — In support of the Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF- SB), the U.S. Army has deployed the Ground-Based Operational Surveillance System (Expeditionary), or G-BOSS-(E) to the San Diego Sector to help support the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

U.S. Army Soldier meeting Border Patrol member.

April 10, 2025

Joint Task Force–Southern Border commander visits Soldiers in Gila Bend and Ajo

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — Maj. Gen. Scott Naumann, the commanding general of the 10th Mountain Division and Joint Task Force–Southern Border, visited Soldiers stationed in Gila Bend and Ajo, Arizona April 10.

Gen. Glen D. VanHerck (right), commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, meets with the Mexican Secretariats of National Defense and Navy in Mexico City, July 7, 2021.

July 9, 2021

VanHerck meets with Mexican military secretaries, discusses security cooperation and areas of mutual interest

MEXICO CITY — Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, met with the Mexican Secretariats of National Defense and Navy in Mexico City, July 6-8, 2021.

1st Lt. Samuel Mueller (left) and Staff Sgt. Michael Mathews (right), both assigned to 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, pose for a photo in El Paso, Texas, June 21, 2019. Both soldiers rescued a migrant woman and her child who fell into a canal in El Paso, Texas on June 20, 2019

June 25, 2019

Soldiers rescue two migrants from waters on U.S. border

EL PASO, Texas — Two U.S. Army Soldiers rescued two migrants from canal waters on the U.S. border in El Paso, TX, June 20. The two Soldiers were part of a Mobile Surveillance Team assisting Customs and Border Protection on the Southwest border, saw a migrant family enter the canal.

Nov. 1, 2018

DoD units supporting DHS along Southwest Border

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The Department of Homeland Security has requested the Department of Defense to provide a range of assistance, including planning, engineering, transportation, logistics and medical support to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Gen. Lori Robinson, NORAD and USNORTHCOM Commander, inspects the Southwest Border between San Diego, Calif. and Tijuana, Mexico with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Aug. 24, 2016.

Aug. 26, 2016

Southwest Border Region Visit

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Gen. Lori Robinson, NORAD and USNORTHCOM Commander, was briefed on and toured the Southwest Border Region during a visit to San Diego, Calif., Aug. 24, 2016.

Gen. Lori Robinson (left), Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM, meets with members of the Customs and Border Protection with Joint Task Force - West in Tucson, Arizona, July 21, 2016. Gen. Robinson was briefed on the mission and challenges on the U.S. border. She also toured the U.S. southern border via helicopter. NORTHCOM is a mission partner with the CBP.
Joint Task Force – West (JTF-W) is part of the Department of Homeland Security's Southern Border and Approaches Campaign Plan. This joint task force structure focuses cross-departmental and integrated counter-network operations on strategic objectives across four geographical corridors. Area networks within the JTF-W Joint Operating Area include supporting components, Department of Defense Commands, International, State, Local, and Tribal entities. JTF-W efforts are designed to extend the border and institutionalize an asymmetric operational agility, effectiveness, and impact against targeted Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO) networks.

Aug. 5, 2016

Southern Border Visit

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Air Force Gen. Lori J. Robinson, commander of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, travelled the Southern U.S. Border visiting NORTHCOM mission partners and units July 19-21, 2016. She received mission briefs and aerial tours in Texas and Arizona.

Col. Christopher C. Seymour, Marine Aircraft Group 26 commanding officer and Lt. Col. Patrick R. Hittle, Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 commanding officer, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., conduct a flyover in an MV-22B Osprey to observe their Marines building and improving roads along the U.S./ Mexico border in Arizona, Mar. 19

March 28, 2012

JTF-North deploys Soldiers to support Border Patrol in N.M., Ariz.

ARIZONA — Active-duty Soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Bliss, Texas, deployed in mid-February to southern New Mexico and southern Arizona to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection border security efforts.

June 13, 2011

North American Border Conference convenes

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – Common ocean approaches, shared air space and land borders, and the defense of the population of North America brought 30 senior enlisted leaders from across the United States and Canada to San Diego June 1-2 for the 2011 North America Border Conference.The annual conference is co-hosted by U.S. Northern Command and

Feb. 8, 2011

U.S. Customs & Border Protection officials meet with U.S. Northern Command to coordinate security efforts

TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin met today with the commander of U.S. Northern Command, Adm. James A. Winnefeld, Jr., and other senior USNORTHCOM officials at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., to discuss the agencies’ ongoing partnership along the Southwest border. “Over the past two years we have

Participants of the North American Regional Air Chiefs Conference pose for a group photo in the Killey Center for Homeland Operations at Tyndall AFB, Fla., July 12-15, 2010. The air domain experts attended the 3-day conference to ‘forge partnerships’ that impact air domain issues in North America.

July 19, 2010

AFNORTH hosts North American Air Chiefs Conference

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – With a focus on enhancing cooperative assistance and security both within and throughout the region, guests at the North American Regional Air Chiefs Conference exchanged information and ideas during the three-day event July 12-15. Hosted by Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command

Army Lt. Gen. Guy Swan III, commanding general of U.S. Army North and Fort Sam Houston, passes the Joint Task Force – Civil Support colors to Air Force Brig. Gen. Jonathan Treacy, the unit’s new commander, during a change of command ceremony at Fort Monroe's Continental Park July 2.

July 15, 2010

Brig. Gen. Treacy takes command of JTF-CS

FORT MONROE, Va. –Joint Task Force – Civil Support has a “no-fail mission,” declared its new commander: to provide life saving and life-sustaining capabilities to local and state leaders in the wake of a catastrophic event.Such was the message delivered by Air Force Brig. Gen. Jonathan Treacy as he assumed command of JTF-CS from Army Maj. Gen.

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