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June 27, 2008

USNORTHCOM support deployed to California for wildland firefighting

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – U.S. Northern Command, in cooperation with the United Stated Air

June 25, 2008

Reserve Component Advocacy Conference works to improve response, support

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Representatives from the U.S. Reserve Forces and National Guard joined

June 25, 2008

USNORTHCOM assists with California wildfires

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – U.S. Northern Command is mobilizing two Modular Airborne Fire

Chief Information Systems Technician Michael Layman demonstrated the Radio Interoperability System, a computer based technology which allows military and civil-band radios as well as cell-phones and even internet-based communications systems to interlink and communicate one with another during the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2008 at U.S. Northern Command. CWID is a technology demonstration hosted by U.S. Joint Forces Command and sponsored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The demonstration allows participants from industry to demonstrate technologies which can be used to assist not only USNORTHCOM personnel participating in defense support of civil authorities missions, but are useful to coalition partners and civil authorities. CWID involved multiple combatant commands and coalition partners in eight countries around the world.

June 20, 2008

CWID offers technological solutions at USNORTHCOM

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Police and fire officials responding to a wildfire decide they need more

June 17, 2008

CWID 2008 tests interoperability solutions for U.S. Northern Command, multi-service, multi-national, and interagency challenges

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration, a Chairman of the

June 17, 2008

NORAD and USNORTHCOM statement regarding news reports on the draft (classified) GAO report

The article in The (Colorado Springs) Gazette is incomplete and inaccurate and is based on a

June 13, 2008

F-16s will fly out of McChord during June exercise

WESTERN AIR DEFENSE SECTOR, McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. – Six F-16 Fighting Falcons will stage at

June 13, 2008

USNORTHCOM supports FEMA in Midwest flooding relief

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – U.S. Northern Command, at the request of the Federal Emergency

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates addresses personnel from Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. June 10. Gates spoke to Airmen about the recent upheaval in senior Air Force leadership and the direction he would like to see the service move forward as new leadership appointees are approved by Congress and the President. Gates then answered the questions of service members before traveling to Scott Air Force Base to give a similar address.

June 10, 2008

Gates addresses Air Force personnel at Peterson Air Force Base

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates addressed the men and women

May 20, 2008

NORAD, USNORTHCOM announce 1st quarter award winners

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command