The Integrated Defense Leadership Course is an intensely focused, two-week, hands-on training program for Air Force Security Forces Defenders to achieve and maintain combat readiness. The IDLC is based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, and uses training grounds at nearby Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center.
Exercise BRIGHT STAR 2023 is a multilateral U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) command-post exercise, field training exercise and senior leader seminar, held with the Arab Republic of Egypt and other partner nations. Participation strengthens military-to-military relationships between U.S. forces and our Egyptian partners in the Central Command area of responsibility, as well as other...
Cope Taufan provides an excellent opportunity to improve combined readiness and interoperability between the U.S. and Malaysia. This large force employment exercise can include operations in air superiority, airborne command and control, close air support, interdiction, air refueling and tactical airlift and air drop.
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.
