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Colorado Army National Guard Sgts. Steve Russ and Ryan Betz, 8th Civil Support Team, dismount from their vehicle and prepare to conduct reconnaissance of a simulated contaminated area May 3, 2012, during a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear response exercise on the U.S. Air Force Academy. In this exercise scenario, a chemical sprayer (background) was used to make more than 200 Air Force Academy cadets ill, and the 8th CST was called out to provide support to local first responders. U.S. Army North, a subordinate of U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for evaluating CSTs every 18 months.

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Colorado Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Everett Gray, 8th Civil Support Team, inflates a decontamination tent prior to 8th CST members conducting reconnaissance of a simulated contaminated area May 3, 2012, on the U.S. Air Force Academy. U.S. Army North, a subordinate of U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for evaluating CSTs every 18 months.

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Members of the 8th Civil Support Team leave the safety of the decontaminated area May 3, 2012, and approach a chemical sprayer used in a simulated chemical attack on the U.S. Air Force Academy. The 8th CST members performed a reconnaissance of the area, taking air samples in an effort to determine the nature of the chemical used in the attack. U.S. Army North, a subordinate of U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for evaluating CSTs every 18 months.

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Colorado Army National Guard Sgt. Ryan Betz, 8th Civil Support Team, gives his partner, Sgt. Steve Russ, a thumbs-up to let him know he has not lost sight of him during a simulated reconnaissance mission as part of a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear response exercise May 3, 2012. Two members of the 8th CST conducted the reconnaissance, always making sure to have visible contact with one another in case of an emergency. U.S. Army North, a subordinate of U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for evaluating CSTs every 18 months.

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Partisan Pictures’ cameraman Ben McCoy collects film footage of a multi-threat NORAD and USNORTHCOM exercise in the Alternate Command Center at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. Immediately behind him are assistant producer Tristan Walker and sound specialist Thomas Wilson (far left). Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Joe Barry (center) and U.S. Air Force Colonel Chris Possehl (far right) are in the background. Partisan Pictures captured film footage at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station for a documentary project during the second week of April 2012.

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Partisan Pictures’ cameraman Ben McCoy collects film footage in limited lighting within the tunnel leading to the south portal inside Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station while producer Jonathan Grupper and sound specialist Thomas Wilson (left background) look on. Partisan Pictures captured film footage at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station for a documentary project during the second week of April 2012. The project also included rare footage of a multi-threat NORAD and USNORTHCOM exercise in the Alternate Command Center.

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Colorado Army National Guard Lt. Col. Kevin Black, 8th Civil Support Team commander, gets a briefing on the current situation from the incident commander, Assistant Fire Chief Ken Helgersin, 10th Civil Engineer Squadron, during a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear response exercise at the U.S. Air Force Academy May 3, 2012. U.S. Army North, a subordinate of U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for evaluating CSTs every 18 months. During CBRN incidents, the CST can support local emergency responders and will take direction from the local incident commander.

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An Air Force Reserve C-130 Hercules aircraft expels water during a capabilities demonstration April 23, 2012, here as part of annual Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System II certification. The U.S. Forest Service-led training, hosted by the 302nd Airlift Wing, certified aerial firefighting C-130 crews to perform the MAFFS mission. The 302nd AW is the only AF Reserve unit with MAFFS capabilities.

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Members of NORAD and USNORTHCOM take a look at the latest innovations in Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear response equipment at the NORAD and USNORTHCOM CBRN Summit March 13, 2012. The purpose of this year’s summit is to bring together Canadian and U.S. CBRN personnel from local, state, national and military organizations to give the current composition of the CBRN Response Enterprise a hard look and determine if changes need to be made.

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Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, Jr. commander of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command gets a first-hand view of a U.S. Forest Service-owned Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System II on board a 302nd Airlift Wing C-130 April 20. From left to right; Air Force Reserve MAFFS qualified loadmasters Master Sgts. Mark Skarban, Thomas Freeman and Lamont Wood give Jacoby a brief overview of how the system operates. The U.S. Forest Service and the 302nd AW held their annual air tanker certification training April 20 through 23 at Peterson Air Force Base and Pueblo Air Tanker Base, Colo. The U.S. Forest Service-led training was designed to ensure the Air Force Reserve MAFFS crews are ready for the upcoming 2012 firefighting season and included 12 hours of ground training and 35 C-130 training missions in southern Colorado. Air Force Reserve MAFFS-equipped C-130s can be requested by the National Interagency Fire Center and then activated through the U.S. Northern Command, based on an agreement with the Department of Defense.

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Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, speaks to Representative Joe Heck (R-NV) before speaking to the House Armed Services Committee March 6, 2012.

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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., NORAD and USNORTHCOM commander, talk during the Inaugural Trilateral Meeting of North American Defense Ministers March 27.

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A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the Colorado Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation, drops 500 gallons of water from a specialized bucket onto the Lower North Fork Fire in the vicinity of Conifer Colo., March 28, 2012. Army National Guard Sgt. Ryan Osadchuk, a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief with the Colorado Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation Battalion, Company A, prepares his helicopter for flight at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo., March 28, 2012. The 2-135th GSAB is operating under the governor's executive order to assist the Colorado Division of Emergency Management, the Colorado State Forest Service, and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in fighting the fire, which began March 26 in Jefferson County, Colo. The fire has given rise to the evacuation of more than 900 homes and is estimated to have covered more than 4,000 acres.

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U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeants Clifford Fallico (second from left), Air Forces Northern intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planner, and Robert Carnall, 702nd Computer Support Squadron System Administrator (third from left), stand before Chief Master Sgt. Angela Abshire (right), director of standards at the Noncommissioned Member Professional Development Center, at the graduation ceremony where they both earned the “Comradeship Award” from the Canadian Intermediate Leadership Program, Canadian Forces College, Noncommissioned Member Professional Development Center, St. Jean Sur Richlieu in Quebec, Canada. Only four of 120 students received the peer-voted award.

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Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesdal, currently stationed at the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, was the first African American woman to fly the U-2 reconnaissance plane.

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Brig. Gen. Christopher Coates (left), Continental United States North American Aerospace Defense Command Region deputy commander, is greeted by John Salvador (second from right), Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters assistant executive director, at CAP’s National Headquarters at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Jan. 26. Coates presented CAP with five Geospatial Information Interoperability Exploitation Portable go kits courtesy of Air Forces Northern to enhance their mission capability and to show gratitude for their support.

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Navy Adm. James Winnefeld, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, escorts members of the Canadian Embassy and consulates to NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters at the beginning of a visit to the commands Feb. 15. The purpose of the visit was to educate the members of the Canadian Consulate Heads of Mission about the missions of NORAD as well as those assumed by USNORTHCOM after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in connection with homeland defense. More than 20 Embassy and consulate staff members received briefings on the NORAD and USNORTHCOM missions and tours of the NORAD and USNORTHCOM Command Center and Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station.

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Maj. Gen. Karl R. Horst, Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region commanding general, provides details of his command's mission and capabilities within the national capital region to National Guard leaders as part of the Contingency Dual Status Commanders' Conference Feb.

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Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shakes hands with Army Lt. Gen. Frank Grass, U.S. Northern Command deputy commander, and Canadian Lt.-Gen. Marcel Duval, North American Aerospace Defense Command deputy commander, at the beginning of a visit to NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Feb. 10. Hickenlooper received a briefing outlining the missions of the commands and a tour of the NORAD and USNORTHCOM Command Center.

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A view from ground firefighting crews as MAFFS 6 drops fire retardant to aid in the control of the Donaldson fire. When full, the tanks being loaded hold 3,000 gallons of fire retardant. Established by Congress in the early '70s as a wildland fire protection program, MAFFS is a joint program with the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and the U.S. Forest Service.

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