A U.S. Marine with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, cuts engineer stakes at the southern border wall near San Ysidro, Calif., Feb. 26, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security with the emplacement of physical barriers to add additional security that will curtail illegal border crossings. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Diego Berumen)
A. U.S. Army National Guard Soldier assigned to 140th Aviation Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Alpha Company conducts refueling on LUH-72A Lakota aircraft. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security to augment U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southern border with additional military forces. This initial deployment of more than 1,600 active-duty personnel brings the total military Title 10 forces along the border to approximately 5,000 personnel. (This photo has been altered for security purposes by blurring out identification badges.) (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Villigran)
FORT HUACHUCA, Arizona — Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division begin their latest deployment with a colors uncasing ceremony held at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, February 18, 2025.
“This ceremony officially establishes and introduces the Joint Task Force for the Southern Border Surge at Fort Huachuca, and to this wonderful community we are now proud to call our home,” said Maj. Gen. Scott Naumann, the 10th Mountain Division Commanding General.
“Today in our division’s history, the 18th of February is an incredibly historic day,” said Naumann.
It was on this day, 80 years ago in 1945, Solders of the 10th Mountain Division launched a daring nighttime assault on Riva Ridge in Italy, where they broke through the Gothic...
