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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Shawn Showman, 615th Contingency Response Wing, Travis Air Force Base, CA, speaks with Senior Master Sgt. Curtis Cookston also the 615th CRW, during civilian evacuation operations at the Louis Armstrong International Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana, Aug. 30, 2008. MSgt. Showman is supporting the operations to evacuate civilians from New Orleans prior to Hurricane Gustav making landfall.

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A member of the 615th Contingency Response Wing, Travis Air Force Base, CA, prepares to guide an aircraft out of it blocks at the Louis Armstrong International Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana, Aug. 30, 2008. Members of the 615th supporting the operations to evacuate civilians from New Orleans prior to Hurricane Gustav making landfall.

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Senior Chief Ross Petersen, VR-61, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, prepares paperwork prior to a flight carrying New Orleans evacuees at the Louis Armstrong International Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana, prior to Hurricane Gustav making land fall, Aug. 30, 2008.

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Air Force Staff Sgt. Dustin Centerbury, C-17 loadmaster from Altus Air Force Base, loads a HUMVEE onto the aircraft at MacDill AFB. The HUMVEEs and medical supplies were deployed to Beaumont, Texas, to assist in preparation for hurricane Gustav evacuations.

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A crew based out of Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, prepares to load HUMVEEs, medical supplies and members of 6th Medical Group from MacDill AFB onto a C-17 Globemaster. The supplies are headed to Beaumont, Texas in preparation for hurricane Gustav relief efforts.

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Staff Sgt. Dustin Centerbury, C-17 loadmaster from Altus Air Force Base, loads a HUMVEE onto the aircraft at MacDill AFB. The HUMVEEs and medical supplies were deployed to Beaumont, Texas, to assist in preparation for hurricane Gustav evacuations.

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Two CH-47F Chinook helicopters from the 2nd “Lobo” Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry “Warrior” Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, hover in a holding pattern at Hood Army Air Field, Fort Hood, Texas, July 10. Two similar Chinooks recently deployed in support of U.S. Northern Command, which is supporting federal, state and local response efforts in Texas.

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Staff Sgt. Dustin Canterbury, a loadmaster from Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, prepare to load HUMVEEs and medical supplies onto a C-17 Globemaster. The supplies are headed to Beaumont, Texas in preparation for hurricane Gustav relief efforts.

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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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