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Airman 1st Class Dakwon Aktkinson, 502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron forklift operator, moves cargo around the air operations terminal Sept. 22, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Kelly Field. The cargo was being staged at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Incident Support Base at Kelly for transport to areas devastated by Hurricane Maria (U.S. Air Force image/Dan Hawkins)

Sept. 22, 2017

JBSA-Lackland Kelly Field stands up ISB to support FEMA’s Hurricane Maria relief efforts

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — The Federal Emergency Management Agency stood up an Incident Support Base at JBSA-Kelly Field to aid Hurricane Maria relief efforts with support from the 502nd Air Base Wing Sept. 21.

Puerto Rico hit again by hurricane

Sept. 20, 2017

National Guard Plans Relief Efforts as Hurricane Maria Slams Puerto Rico

ARLINGTON, Va. — As Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm, National Guard troops and members of federal agencies throughout the Caribbean region were making disaster relief preparations.

aerial view of U.S. Naval Air Station Key West - Boca Chica Field after flooding caused by Hurricane Irma

Sept. 15, 2017

DLA Energy continues support for FEMA Hurricane Irma relief

CAMP BLANDING JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Florida — Defense Logistics Agency Energy’s Task Force Americas relocated from Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia to Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Starke, Florida to support Federal Emergency Management Agency relief operations there, Sept. 14.

Coast Guard cutters from Sector San Juan and Sector Jacksonville anchor off the coast of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Sept. 11, 2017

DoD Provides Update on Hurricane Irma Response Efforts

WASHINGTON — Naval, air and ground assets from the Defense Department are ready to initiate response operations in Florida and will continue Hurricane Irma response operations throughout the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico region, a DoD spokesman said.

Texas Army National Guard soldiers arrive in Houston to aid citizens.

Aug. 28, 2017

DoD Moves Troops, Search-Rescue Units, Aircraft, Vehicles to Texas

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is prepositioning troops, search and rescue units, aircraft, vehicles,

DoD Seal

July 28, 2017

Pentagon Spokesman Comments on North Korean Missile Launch

WASHINGTON — A Pentagon spokesman said the Defense Department detected and tracked a single North Korea missile launch and that it did not pose a threat to North America.

A California Air National Guard C-130 aircraft flies by a Nevada Air National Guard C-130 during this week's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System training and certification. More than 400 personnel of four C-130 Guard and Reserve units — from California, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming, making up the Air Expeditionary Group — are in Boise, Idaho for the week-long wildfire training and certification sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service.

July 27, 2017

High Rollers deploy for first MAFFS activation

FRESNO, Calif. — More than a year after being named the newest military C-130 unit equipped with the Modular Airborne

Representatives from North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Command, the Mexican military and U.S. and Mexican federal civilian agencies, participate in Amalgam Eagle 2017, a live-fly exercise requiring a cooperative response to a an illicit flight that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, at the exercise command center at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

July 17, 2017

NORAD, USNORTHCOM and the Mexican Air Force successfully accomplish objectives in AMALGAM EAGLE 17

PETERSON AFB, Colo. — The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, along with the Mexican Air

Vice President Michael Pence receives a mission briefing from U.S. Air Force General Lori J. Robinson, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command inside the Alternate Command Center at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, June 23, 2017. The Vice President was accompanied by the Secretary of the Air Force, the Honorable Heather Wilson, and received briefings to better familiarize them with the unique mission that NORAD and USNORTHCOM have in defense of Canada and the United States. (DoD Photo By: N&NC Public Affairs/Released)

June 24, 2017

Vice President visits front range

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Vice President Michael Pence made history by being the first vice president to send a payload command to a Global Positioning System satellite, Friday, June 23, at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.

First responders from the Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoacán practice bringing a drowning victim to shore using a rescue sled donated by U.S. Northern Command in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 22, 2017. As part of USNORTHCOM's humanitarian assistance mission, members of the U.S. Public Health Service provided water search and rescue training to Mexican first responders. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Lauren Hill/Released)

March 30, 2017

U.S., Mexican Civilian First Responders Complete Water Search and Rescue Training

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico — As the warm blue waves crash onto the shore of a resort town in the Pacific Ocean, a lifeguard on