Lloyd J. Austin III is the 28th secretary of defense, sworn in on Jan. 22, 2021. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Austin served 41 years in uniform, retiring as a four-star Army general after three years as commander of U.S. Central Command.The defense secretary oversees the Defense Department and acts as the principal defense policy maker and advisor.
The Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands (BBCW) project is to rehydrate coastal wetlands and reduce damaging point-source freshwater discharge to Biscayne Bay and Biscayne National Park. The BBCW project will restore wetland and estuarine habitats, and divert an average of 59 percent of the annual coastal structure discharge into freshwater and saltwater wetlands instead of direct discharges to...
The National Guard Region V Best Warrior competition is a rigorous compilation of events for the top National Guard Soldiers and NCOs from Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Kansas. The Texas Military Department is hosting this year's weeklong competition at Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas from May 2-7, 2021.
In August 2020, the Arab Republic of Egypt became the Texas National Guard’s newest state partner in support of US Central Command. The State Partnership Program links a state’s National Guard with the armed forces or equivalent of a partner country in a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship.
This feature page highlights imagery and video of U.S. Military helping to provide relief to areas impacted by Tropical Storm Nicholas.
Keris Aman 2023 is a multinational United Nations Peacekeeping (UN PKO) exercise conducted in Malaysia and co-sponsored by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and the Malaysian Armed Forces. It consists of a UN PKO Mission staff training event, field training event, and a critical enabler capability enhancement event at the Malaysian Peacekeeping Centre. The exercise is designed to strengthen...
Michigan’s Task Force 46, and National Guard service members from several other states including Nashville, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and California participates in the Dense Urban Terrain Exercise in Nashville, TN. Joining the many National Guard servicemembers are representatives from local, state and federal agencies, and private sector and academic partners. The DUT series of...
This year-long AETC-specific narrative is meant to focus on how the Airmen of AETC have been inspired to remain in service. This is meant to serve as a support to AFRS’s “Go Blue, Stay Blue.”
