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A Los Angeles-class attack submarine departs Naval Station Norfolk ahead of Hurricane Irene. Vice Adm. Daniel Holloway, commander of U.S. 2nd Fleet, ordered all ships in the Hampton Roads area to set Sortie Condition Alpha. Ships in the area are departing early Thursday morning, Aug. 25. Irene's current track indicates it will pass off the North Carolina and Virginia coasts late Saturday as a Category 3 hurricane.
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Airmen from the Air Force Reserve Command's 302 Airlift Wing based at Peterson AFB, Colo., follow the lead plane to see where to drop their next load of fire retardant. The fire retardant is colored red to show where drops have already been made.
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Aerial view from the crew of a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 aircraft as they return from dropping a load of fire retardant on the Donson wildfire in New Mexico.
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A C-130J from the California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif., is loaded with part of a MAFFS system June 15 after landing at Kirtland AFB, N.M. In support of the National Interagency Fire Center, the unit brought two C-130J aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System to help control wildfires in the Southwestern U.S.
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A C-130J from the California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif., taxis to a parking spot June 15 after landing at Kirtland AFB, N.M. In support of the National Interagency Fire Center, the unit brought two C-130J aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System to help control wildfires in the Southwestern U.S.
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Michael O'Brien, Space Integrated Government Solutions intern, demonstrates the Spacenet Emergency Communications System at the Coalition Warrior Interoperabilty Demonstration in Colorado Springs June 15. CWID is part exercise, part vendor demonstration, where companies offering new technologies can demonstrate their products in a realistic environment. The ECS is a portable communications hub that can be integrated into mobile command vehicles to provide field personnel with access to the Internet, land mobile radios, public telephone networks and secure private networks. The system has been used in Haiti and more recently in the aftermath of the Joplin, Mo., tornadoes.
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Army National Guard Sgt. Stephanie Peavy, 244th Army Liaison Team from Chicago, works with a "Life Ring" cell phone being demonstrated at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration in Colorado Springs June 15. CWID is part exercise, part vendor demonstration, where companies offering new technologies can demonstrate their products in a realistic environment. The Life Ring is a cell phone system that combines a GPS and satellite communications, allowing continuous communication and tracking through a G3 network cell phone regardless of conditions on the ground. This allows first responders in a disaster situation to maintain contact with their organization leadership even if cell towers in the area have been destroyed.
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Lt. Col. Kurt Holden, 115th Airlift Squadron commander, California Air National Guard, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif., talked with Albuquerque news media June 15 about his squadron’s deployment to Kirtland AFB, N.M. In support of the National Interagency Fire Center, the unit brought two C-130J aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System to help control wildfires in the Southwestern U.S.
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Master Sgt’s. Lamont Wood and Scott Agenbroad from the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing based at Peterson AFB, Colo., ready their cargo of Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System equipment for transport to Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., to assist the wildfire fighting effort across Arizona and New Mexico.
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Navy Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, National Maritime Intelligence Center director, gives opening remarks at the 2nd annual NORAD and USNORTHCOM Maritime Stakeholders Conference June 1. The conference brings together military and civilian maritime agencies to discuss security and information sharing. The conference runs through June 3.
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Gen. Chuck Jacoby, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, welcomes Mexican Secretary of National Defense Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda and Mexican Secretary of the Navy Adm. Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz to the NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters. Gen. Cienfuegos and Adm. Soberón, who met earlier in the week in Washington with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, visited USNORTHCOM today to discuss the military-to-military relationship between the United States and Mexico. Key issues that were discussed today included training, educational opportunities, and binational exercises focused on military support of civil authorities.

Gen. Cienfuegos and Adm. Soberón reiterated that for Mexico it is important to continue to strengthen the bilateral military relationship with the United States, through close cooperation that will address common problems that occur along a shared border. It was their first visit as secretaries to the headquarters.
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Air Force Brig. Gen. Richard Scobee, North American Aerospace Defense Command Deputy Director of Operations, gives opening remarks at the 2nd annual NORAD and USNORTHCOM Maritime Stakeholders Conference June 1. The conference brings together military and civilian maritime agencies to discuss security and information sharing. The conference runs through June 3.
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Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, visits with participants of the National Level Exercise 2011 at Springfield-Branson National Airport in Springfield, Mo., May 18.  Winnefeld spoke with the participants of NLE to ensure that the exercise was a valuable learning experience for possible real world events.
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Marine Maj. Gen. Robert Walsh, U.S. Northern Command Operations Directorate director, welcomes members of the USNORTHCOM Standing Joint Force Headquarters to the Operations Directorate during the NC/SJFHQ disestablishment ceremony May 9. The NC/SJFHQ, the organization responsible for deploying the core of an emergency joint task force to contingencies across the country within six hours of mobilization, was folded into the USNORTHCOM Operations Directorate after seven years of operation as a separate directorate.
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Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, throws out the first pitch at the Sky Sox - Grizzlies game at Security Services Field May 3. The NORAD and USNORTHCOM commander also gave the oath of enlistment to 12 U.S. Navy enlistees. The Sky Sox beat the Grizzlies 13 - 5.
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Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, gives the oath of enlistment to 12 U.S. Navy enlistees at the Sky Sox - Grizzlies game at Security Services Field May 3. The Admiral was also invited to throw out the first pitch.
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Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, gives the oath of enlistment to 12 U.S. Navy enlistees at the Sky Sox - Grizzlies game at Security Services Field May 3. The Admiral was also invited to throw out the first pitch.
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Airmen from California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing and Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing gather at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas to prepare for wildfire fighting operations, April 18, 2011.  The Airmen maintain and operate the Modular Airborne Firefighting System(MAFFS) housed aboard a C-130 Hercules which is capable of dispensing 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant in under 5 seconds.  The wildfires have spread across various parts of Texas and have burned more than 1,000 square miles of land.
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Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, gives the oath of enlistment to 12 U.S. Navy enlistees at the Sky Sox - Grizzlies game at Security Services Field May 3. The Admiral was also invited to throw out the first pitch.
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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Chuck Watkins, 115th Airlift Squadron, California Air National Guard, connects a fuel hose to a C-130J Hercules while preparing the aircraft for firefighting operations at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, April 18, 2011.  The C-130 is equipped with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System(MAFFS) which is capable of dispensing 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant in under 5 seconds.
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