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Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, talks with military and civilian representatives from Singapore at NORAD’s and USNORTHCOM’s Homeland Defense and Civil Support Perspectives Forum in Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 31, 2008. About 60 officials from Australia, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States met to discuss methods of and ways to improve Homeland Defense and Civil Support processes.

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Personnel from NORAD and USNORTHCOM visit the first ever Combined Federal Campaign Rally and Charity Agency Fair Oct. 7 at the commands' headquarters. The 2008 CFC campaign "is not about money, not about goals," said NORAD and USNORTHCOM Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. John H. Bordelon. "It's about helping people in need." Representatives from more than 20 CFC charities were present, sharing their charities with the men and women of the commands.

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American and Canadian personnel monitor activity in the North American maritime and air domains in the new North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command command center. NORAD and USNORTHCOM unveiled their new integrated command center in a May 13 ceremony at the commands’ headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.

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FEMA Administrator Paulison at the podium during a press conference at FEMA headquarters. FEMA is hosting their First Hurricane Awareness Day at FEMA headquarters to highlight the federal government's preparations for the 2008 Hurricane Season. On the dais; L-R, Mr. James. J. Madon, Director and Deputy Manager of the National Communications System in the Department of Homeland Security, Major General Guy C. Swan III, Chief of Operations for Headquarters, U.S. Northern Command, Ms. Mary S. Elcano, Acting President and CEO, American Red Cross, Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant, U.S.Coast Guard, FEMA Administrator David Paulison (at podium), DHS Secretary, Michael Chertoff, Mr. Paul McHale, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, Dr. Gerald Parker, Principal Deputy Assistance Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Major General William H. Etter, Acting Director of the Joint Staff, National Guard Bureau. FEMA/Bill Koplitz

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Dr. Yessica Chaparro, Deputy Director of Emerging and Reemerging Diseases in the Emergency Health Department of Mexico’s Ministry of Health, discusses government actions during a hypothetical pandemic influenza in North America during U.S. Northern Command’s Trinational Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise and Seminar in Colorado Springs, Colo., on June 16, 2008.

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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.

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Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic JUDr. Vlasta Parkanová and Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command Lt. Gen. William Webster Jr. conduct a press conference with Czech reporters at USNORTHCOM and North American Aerospace Defense Command headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., on July 18, 2008. The minister visited several U.S. military installations and was briefed on U.S. missile defense capabilities during her visit to the United States.

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Lt. Gen. William Webster, deputy commander of USNORTHCOM addresses the Keystone Fellows July 14. Keystone is the senior enlisted leadership course designed to increase senior enlisted personnels' awareness of warfighting in the joint envirenment by bringing them to several of the joint and combatant commands in the United States. While at NORAD and USNORTHCOM, the Fellows received briefings on the missions of the commands, toured command facilities and met with several of the commands leaders.

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Canadian Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter J. Natynczyk addresses personnel at the headquarters of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., on July 23, 2008. Natynczyk visited NORAD as part of a familiarization tour after his appointment to the position of CDS.

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command 2008 2nd quarter civilian award winners are, left to right: Commander Gen. Gene Renuart, Larry Brenish, Eric Larson, Carl Johnson, NORAD and USNORTHCOM Command Senior Enlisted Leader Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Wood.

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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.

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Soldiers from the 379th Chemical Company train on detecting hazardous materials at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Ill., in late August. The Chicago-based Army Reserve unit will be assigned Oct. 1 to U.S. Northern Command as part of CCMRF 9.1.

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Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. speaks during a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive incidents consequence management response force exercise at Fort Stewart, Ga., Sept. 14, 2008. The exercise is designed to educate key leaders and staff on the response environment and to train them to work together as a joint team.

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Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM, Gen. Gene Renuart, unveils a photo of Gen. Earl Partridge and Air Marshal Roy Sleman recently. Renuart recently approved re-naming of the Large Conference Room at NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters to the Partridge-Sliman Conference room in honor of the foresight and committment to international cooperation the two showed in the formative days of NORAD. Partridge was the first commander of NORAD and Sleman the first deputy.

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Soldiers at Great Lakes Naval Station, Ill., practice skills they will use when their units assume a consequence management response mission Oct. 1.

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The "J6 Cyber Range Riders" wild cow milking team from North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command finished second in preliminary competition at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Colo., on July 11, 2008. Team members are: Army Sgt. Maj. Archie Ramos (milking cow), Navy Chief Petty Officer Shawn Wise (sitting), Senior Master Sgt. Pete Palmer (standing) and Army Col. Michael Curry (kneeling). The team placed second in the rodeo finals the next day. The rodeo is a charitable organization dedicated to funding programs and services that benefit local military personnel and their families.

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Air Force Maj. Gary Frunz, U.S. Northern Command’s interim joint regional medical plans and operations officer for FEMA Region 8, discusses the mental health consequences of a potential pandemic flu at the Continental Divide Disaster Behavioral Health Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., on July 10, 2008.

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Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, speaks at the sixth annual Homeland Defense Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 29, 2008. Renuart discussed the homeland defense and homeland security missions of NORAD and USNORTHCOM and, specifically, how the commands fulfill those missions by collaborating with their civilian interagency partners.

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Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum, left, chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Lt. Gen. William Webster, center, deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command, discuss the 2007 military response to Hurricane Dean during USNORTHCOM's Hurricane Preparation Conference at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., on March 14, 2008. Adjutants general from hurricane-prone states and territories participated in the third annual conference, along with representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, Navy, Coast Guard, Army, Air Force and Canada Command.

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Lt. Gen. William Webster, deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command, talks with senior enlisted leaders who visited North American Aerospace Defense Command and USNORTHCOM this week as part of the Keystone course.

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