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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.

Stryker

March 27, 2025

The impact of Stryker vehicles at the southern border

FORT BLISS, Texas — Recently, the Department of Defense (DoD) authorized the deployment of Stryker armored vehicles to assist Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in detecting and monitoring activity to enhance security at the U.S. southern border.

U.S. Army Soldiers

March 24, 2025

Joint Task Force–Southern Border assumes authority of southern border mission

FORT BLISS, Texas — Joint Task Force-Southern Border, a newly-announced headquarters element from the 10th Mountain Division, assumed control of the southern border mission on March 14, 2025.

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.

Service members in front of computer system

March 5, 2025

U.S. Soldiers support maritime security

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to 716th Military Police Battalion, Task Force Griffin, are supporting the southern border mission through protection the bordering waterways. Nine Solders are working directly with the Coast Guard in the Joint Harbor Operations Center (JHOC).

Official party for the JTF-N change of command ceremony upon arriving to the event at Fort Bliss, Texas, Dec. 9, 2024.

Dec. 10, 2024

Maj. Gen. Dixon assumes command of Joint Task Force North

Fort Bliss, Texas — U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Henry S. Dixon assumed command of Joint Task Force North (JTF-N) from U.S. Army Maj. General Matthew D. Smith during a change-of-command ceremony at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Dec. 9, 2024.

Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Chief Master Sgt. John Storms, NORAD and USNORTHCOM Command senior enlisted leader, are briefed on the Western Air Defense Sector’s Agile Operations Center air picture management section by Royal Canadian Air Force Sgt. Guillaume Thibault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Nov. 18, 2024.

Dec. 3, 2024

NORAD and USNORTHCOM Leaders Visit Western Air Defense Sector

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander, North American Aerospace Defense

Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Air Force Gen. Steven Nordhaus, Chief, National Guard Bureau, stand for a photo with National Guard Adjutants General conference attendees at the Colorado National Guard’s 168th Regional Training Site, Fort Carson, Colorado, Oct. 29, 2024.

Nov. 3, 2024

Guillot: National Guard Vital to NORAD, U.S. Northern Command

FORT CARSON, Colo. – The National Guard is a vital contributor to North American Aerospace Defense