This feature page highlights content related to the U.S. Military's response to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to areas impacted by Typhoon Krathon (Julian). At the request of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin directed U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to support the U.S. Agency for International Development's efforts in foreign disaster relief operations in the Philippines following Typhoon Krathon (locally known as Julian), which made landfall on the Province of Cagayan, Philippines Sept. 30.