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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.

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.

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.