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Airmen assigned to the Nevada National Guard’s 152nd Maintenance Group prepare to attach a Modular Airborne Firefighting System nozzle onto MAFFS 9 at the Nevada Air National Guard Base in Reno, Jan. 10, 2025, to support wildland firefighting in Los Angeles. U.S. Northern Command has activated eight C-130 aircraft equipped with the firefighting systems and associated personnel to relocate from their home stations to the Channel Islands in Southern California to support firefighting efforts in the Los Angeles area.

Hospital staff and community members say goodbye to the Navy medical team at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 30, 2022. U.S. Northern Command through Army North provided flexible Defense Department support to the whole-of-government COVID-19 response.

A Florida Army National Guard Humvee leaves a trail of powdered snow during operations at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, March 10, 2022, as part of Arctic Edge, a U.S. Northern Command homeland defense exercise.

Personnel assigned to the Air Force's 30th Space Wing, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Northern Command test the nation's ground-based missile defense system at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., March 25, 2019. The system provides the capability to engage and destroy intermediate- and long-range ballistic missile threats in space.