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Army Sgt. 1st Class Edwin Izquierdo and Army Sgt. Javier Cosme, both with the Puerto Rico National Guard's 190th Engineering Battalion, support the clearing of heavy debris from local roads after tropical storm Irene's passing over Puerto Rico Aug. 21, 2011.

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Kevin Estrem, Christian Anschutz, and Lionel Rivera listen to opening remarks by Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, before receiving the Commander's Community Leader Commendation award at a ceremony at NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters July 29.

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Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, Lionel Rivera, Christian Anschutz and Kevin Estrem pose for a photo during the Commander's Community Leader Commendation Ceremony at NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters July 29.

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The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) 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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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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The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) departs Naval Station Norfolk in advance of Hurricane Irene. Vice Adm. Daniel Holloway, commander, U.S. Second Fleet, ordered Sortie Condition Alpha so the ships could avoid storm damage. Irene’s current track indicates it will pass off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts overnight Saturday as a category II hurricane.

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Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., prepare emergency equipment for immediate response to Hurricane Irene at the CRW’s Global Reach Deployment Center here Aug. 25. The roughly 600 Airmen of the CRW specialize in creating aerial port and command-and-control facilities in damaged or hostile environments. Previous missions have included humanitarian responses to Haiti, Pakistan and Japan in the aftermath of earthquakes, floods and tsunami in addition to Hurricanes Ike, Rita, Gustav and Katrina.

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Sailors assigned to Naval Submarine Base New London place sandbags along the waterfront in preparation for possible effects from Hurricane Irene.

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Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., prepare emergency equipment for immediate response to Hurricane Irene at the CRW’s Global Reach Deployment Center here Aug. 25. The roughly 600 Airmen of the CRW specialize in creating aerial port and command-and-control facilities in damaged or hostile environments. Previous missions have included humanitarian responses to Haiti, Pakistan and Japan in the aftermath of earthquakes, floods and tsunami in addition to Hurricanes Ike, Rita, Gustav and Katrina.

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Air Force Master Sgt. Julie Stava, U.S. Northern Command J39 knowledge operations manager, receives the oath of enlistment from her son, Air Force 2nd Lt. Felix Abeyta, in a re-enlistment ceremony in USNORTHCOM headquarters July 7. Stava re-enlisted for the final time after 20 years of service. Her last re-enlistment ceremony is her son's first. Abeyta graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2010 and is currently a spacelift program manager with the 1st Air and Space Test Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calf. He said having the opportunity to give the oath to his mother was a great honor. "She was the driving force in why I went to the academy, and she was my first salute after I graduated," he said. Upon hearing this, Stava said, "We're even now."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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