National Guard personnel were activated to assist local and state authorities in the preparation and aftermath of multiple winter storms that struck the northeast coast region of the United States in 2017.
United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation to provide command and control, logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development-led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations.
Held every October in Washington, D.C., the AUSA Annual Meeting is the largest landpower exposition and professional development forum in North America. The Annual Meeting consists of informative presentations, panel discussions on pertinent military and national security subjects, workshops and important AUSA business meetings.
On Oct. 19, U.S. Army North began planning to train 30 military medical personnel to support a potential request to support civil authorities in responding to Ebola cases in the United States.
DOD’s initial response to the Ebola outbreak began in late September, when the Department of Defense deployed about 4,000 troops to West Africa in support of United States Agency for International...
Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber, Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile, helicopter operations and security forces competition
with units from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, Air
Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard. AFGSC's fourth Global
Strike Challenge competition will culminate with team arrivals, a symposium
and score posting events...
U.S. Central Command - Disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda and its extremist allies and to set conditions in Afghanistan to prevent reestablishment of trans-national extremist sanctuaries
The Secretary of Defense is the leader and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense, an Executive Department of the Government of the United States of America. The Secretary of Defense's power over the United States military is second only to that of the President.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is, by U.S. law, the highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces and is the principal military advisor to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense.
