Detachment 1, 414th Combat Training Squadron runs Exercise ANGEL THUNDER - the DoD's only full-spectrum, Joint, Interagency, and multi-national Personnel Recovery exercise.
A Marine legend passed away December 8, 2016. Col John H. Glenn Jr. — an astronaut, a senator, a Marine — died at the age of 95. Upon completing his training in 1943, Glenn served as a fighter pilot in WWII and the Korean War. For his service in 149 combat missions in two wars, he received numerous honors, including the Distinguished Flying Cross (six occasions) and the Air Medal with...
AFRICOM's MEDRETE's hosted by United States Army-Africa, pair small teams of military medical professionals from the U.S. with participating African partner nations to train alongside and share best practices in trauma and surgical medicine. U.S. personnel benefit by providing medical care in a forward and austere environment; and African partners develop closer relationships with medical...
The 59 CBRN Company is conducting Defense CBRN Response Force (DCRF) sustainment training with the New York Fire Department HAZMAT Team in New York City.
The Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop - a Fort Bragg tradition and collective training exercise - is set to begin in early December. Operation Toy Drop combines U.S. Army Reserve personnel, dozens of volunteers, foreign jumpmasters, and toys for what is the world's largest annual joint and combined airborne operation.
As of 23 November 2016, five nations are confirmed to send...
U.S. Customs & Border Protection is standing up a temporary facility near the Tornillo port of entry to provide additional capacity for family units and unaccompanied children in CBP custody at the ports and stations in the area.
The temporary site can hold up to 500 people. CBP, assisted by contractors onsite, will ensure that all of the basic needs of those in CBP custody are met. CBP...
We will keep faith with the legacy of innovation which has always been the hallmark of Marines - specifically visionaries here at Quantico like Pete Ellis, Victor "Brute" Krulak, and countless others. Together, we will remain faithful to our mission and high calling to ensure that the Marine Corps is properly organized, trained, and equipped, today and tomorrow, to generate balanced Marine...
National Guard Soldiers supported state and local firefighting efforts against multiple wildfires in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky.
