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A U.S. Air Force jet flies over NASA's Cape Canaveral recently. NORAD and USNORTHCOM routinely provide military support to NASA shuttle launches, ensuring airspace safety and security for the launch and landing by enforcing the FAA's Temporary Flight Restriction zones.

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Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and his wife, Jill Renuart, kick off the July 12, 2007, performance of the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Colo. The rodeo is a charitable organization dedicated to funding programs and services that benefit local military personnel and their families.

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Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Rodney McKinley talks with several NORAD and USNORTHCOM senior enlisted personnel during a visit to the commands' headquarters June 6. McKinley received several command briefings and met with the senior enlisted from each service before an all Airmen's call at the Peterson Air Force Base theater.

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The "Cudslingers" – a wild cow milking team made up of personnel assigned to U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command – won second place in a preliminary round at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Colo., July 12, 2007. The team returned to the rodeo July 15 to compete for overall honors in the finals, but was out-milked by a team from Fort Carson, Colo. The rodeo is a charitable organization dedicated to funding programs and services that benefit local military personnel and their families.

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Gen. Gene Renuart talks with reporters for the first time as commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command at a press conference March 23, 2007, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. Renuart assumed command of NORAD and USNORTHCOM from Adm. Timothy J. Keating in a change-of-command ceremony at the base.

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Command Sergeant Major Daniel R. Wood, command senior enlisted leader of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, leads a discussion with the commands' senior enlisted troops. Wood, a 26-year Army veteran, assumed his position at NORAD and USNORTHCOM March 26.

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NORAD, USNORTHCOM Commander visits JTF North - April 24, 2007 - General Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, presents his coin to Army Sgt. Tanikannia I. Hollis, Joint Task Force North plans and policy directorate noncommissioned-officer-in-charge, during an April 24 visit to Joint Task Force North headquarters at Fort Bliss, Texas. JTF North is the USNORTHCOM organization tasked to support the nation’s federal law enforcement agencies in the identification and interdiction of suspected transnational threats within and along the approaches to the continental United States.

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Rear Adm. John C. Acton, deputy commander for U.S. Coast Guard Mobilization and Reserve Affairs - Atlantic Area, inspects the reserve and active-duty Coast Guard troops assigned to U.S. Northern Command April 23 during a commissioning ceremony at Peterson Air Force Base for the new USNORTHCOM Coast Guard Reserve Unit. Capt. Douglas A. Ash commands the new reserve unit, which currently has five members and is expected to grow to 20 over the next few years. U.S. Northern Command and the U.S. Coast Guard effectively coordinate operations in multiple national defense mission areas, including maritime intercept operations, deployed port operations, maritime security and defense, peacetime engagement, and environmental defense operations.

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Colonel Tom Muir, left, director of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command Command Center, briefs agency representatives attending USNORTHCOM's first State Partners Day April 25 at the commands' headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.

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General Gene Renuart, commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM, addresses more than 700 military and civilians from the space industry at the 23rd National Space Symposium April 11. Renuart spoke to conference atendees about the operator's point of view on space technology, and the importance of continuing to develop space-based capabilities. He said that space-based technology is vital to NORAD and USNORTHCOM's missions.

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General Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, meets with members of the 601st Air Operations Group at Tyndall AFB, Fla. The 601 AOG, manned primarily with Florida Air National Guardsmen, serves as part of NORAD's Continential US NORAD Region, and Air Forces Northern under USNORTHCOM.

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Col. Frank Kosich updates his staff on the status of Exercise Ardent Sentry '07 hurricane recovery operations. Kosich is the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region I Defense Coordinating Officer, whose job is to work with federal, state and local agencies to ensure U.S. Northern Command's Defense Support of Civil Authorities mission is carried out effectively. U.S. Army North provides the DCO to an area affected by a disaster should Department of Defense response be requested by the President or the Secretary of Defense.

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General Gene Renuart, far right, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, observes a demonstration April 17 of an airborne communications package aboard a C-130 aircraft at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. The demonstration was conducted by the Joint Communications Support Element, a military unit composed of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps personnel, to show USNORTHCOM and civilian law enforcement organizations the communications capabilities the unit can provide to Department of Defense and other federal agencies.

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Tech. Sgt. Everett Emerson, an Air National Guard medic from Kulis Air National Guard Base, Alaska, works with firefighters from the North Pole Fire Department to secure a simulated accident victim on a backboard for transportation to the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital May 9. "We've trained for mass casualty exercises, but never this big before," Sergeant Emerson said. The May 9 scenario was part of the Alaska Shield/Northern Edge 2007 exercise which is scheduled from May 7-18. Civilian, military and other government agencies are coming together for the large scale exercise which is designed to test all agencies' preparedness, interaction and response to a variety of incidents ranging from natural disasters to terrorist attacks and other emergencies.

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General Gene Renuart, commander, U.S. Northern Command, gets a close up look at the Department of Defense, Defense Support to Civil Authorities Automated Support System from Lt. Gen. Thomas Turner, U.S. Army North commanding general and members of his staff. The DDASS system allows Army North’s Joint Task Force Falcon track mission assignments requested by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. General Renuart was visiting JTF Falcon, which was deployed to Providence, R.I., in support of the hurricane venue of Exercise Ardent Sentry '07.

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Representative Visit - Jan. 13, 2007 - Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, shows U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn the 9-11 remembrance wall at USNORTHCOM and NORAD headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 13, 2007. The visit was Lamborn's first to the commands.

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Lt. Col. David M. Funk (left) is awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal in a Jan. 17, 2007, ceremony at the headquarters of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. Funk was recognized for providing emergency first aid at the scene of a Jan. 8, 2007, three-car accident until professional help arrived. Funk is chief of the Training and Exercise Branch of NORAD and USNORTHCOM. Presenting the award was NORAD and USNORTHCOM commander, Adm. Timothy J. Keating (right).

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Maj. Gen. Robert B. Ostenberg (right), director of Reserve Forces for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, presents Lt. Col. David Newberry with the Welcome Home Warrior-Citizen Award Jan. 20 at NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters. The award was mandated by Congress for all Army Reservists who have been activated in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom.

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Joint Task Force North Deputy Director for Intelligence, Gabe Reyes, on right, leads a working group discussion on Intelligence Oversight. The group focused on current IO issues and future applications of policy pertaining to the evolving nature of technology and interagency cooperation.

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Marine Corps. Sgt. Maj. D. Scott Frye, Senior Enlisted Advisor of NORAD and USNORTHCOM, gestures to Color Guard members during a rehearsal for the NORAD and USNORTHCOM change of command March 23. Frye retires March 30 after 32 years of service in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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