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Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) moors off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, April 15, 2025 during Exercise Southern Lightning. For the exercise, Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic tested several pieces of equipment as part of their routine scientific mission to enhance the interoperability and performance of various naval communications system configurations and capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Emily Farnsworth) [Stock Photo]

June 12, 2025

USS Cole Assists Royal Canadian Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Conduct At-Sea Transfer of Intercepted Contraband

CARIBBEAN SEA — The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67), supporting maritime southern border operations, conducted a hold-and-transfer of 245 kilograms of contraband recovered by the Royal Canadian Navy Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessel HMCS William Hall (AOPV 433) in the Caribbean Sea June 9. The Reliance-class U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Vigorous (WMEC 627) accepted the contraband from the Cole’s embarked USCG Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) June 11 during a rendezvous at sea in the Caribbean.

Soldiers on the border

March 24, 2025

Securing the Homeland

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — On the evening of Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a series of Executive Orders related to the Southern border. Among the series of Executive Orders was a national emergency declaration, which directed the Department of Defense, through U.S. Northern Command, to mobilize various organizations to support the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) mission to secure and obtain operational control of the southern border.

Soldiers uncasing unit colors

March 21, 2025

10th Mountain Division hosts uncasing ceremony

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division begin their latest deployment with a colors uncasing ceremony held at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, February 18, 2025.

A U.S. soldier stands guard at a known crossing point for illegal aliens along the border in Brownsville, Texas, Feb. 25, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security to augment U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southern border with additional military forces. This initial deployment of more than 1,600 active-duty personnel brings the total military Title 10 forces along the border to approximately 4,000 personnel. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Sveen)

March 14, 2025

Military personnel assist civilian during medical emergency near southern border

LORDSBURG, N.M. — A routine surveillance shift turned into a lifesaving response for U.S. Army Reserve Sergeants Jack Dylan Fuller and Peter Gillis, both natives of Milan, Ohio, when they assisted a distressed civilian near Lordsburg, New Mexico, on March 1, 2025.