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— U.S. Air Force Sgt. Seretha C. Williams,
a food service specialist, prepares troop rations
for service members in Bagram, Afghanistan. Williams
works with the 769th Engineering Battalion out of
Baton Rouge, La., and says that she works long hours
in the kitchen to feed hundreds of troops every
day. U.S.
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| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American
Forces Press Service |
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Poland, Sept. 25, 2002 — The United States and NATO
will be prepared to face the 21st century threats of terrorism
and weapons of mass destruction, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld said here Wednesday.
Rumsfeld, along with NATO Secretary-General
George Robertson, held a news conference to cap off his four-day
visit here. He'd been in the capital city to attend informal
NATO defense ministers' meetings.
Both leaders stressed that the global security
environment has greatly changed since the end of the Cold
War and the United States and NATO must prepare to deal with
new, 21st century threats.
Today, Rumsfeld emphasized, terrorism, states
that support terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction are
the new bogeymen of peace. That's why, he noted, the United
States is transforming its military to react more quickly
to the specter of terrorism as personified by the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks on America.
"As we've learned on Sept. 11, the
world has changed … in ominous ways," Rumsfeld
said. "Terrorist networks, terrorist states and weapons
of mass destruction come together in a way that can cause
unprecedented destruction to our cities, our people, and our
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2002 —
A page in history will turn Oct. 1 as U.S. Northern
Command stands up at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
NORTHCOM, created as part of changes
to the Unified Command Plan, will be the combatant
command for defense of the United States. Air Force
Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, current commander of U.S.
Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense
Command, will head NORTHCOM.
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is scheduled to preside
at the ceremony establishing NORTHCOM and casing the
colors of U.S. Space Command. U.S. Strategic Command
will be absorbing Space Command into its headquarters
at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
The establishment of NORTHCOM is
part of the greatest transformation of the Unified
Command Plan since its inception in 1947, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said during the April 17
unveiling of the command.
The command will be responsible
for the defense of the American homeland. NORTHCOM's
area of operations willinclude the United States,
Canada, Mexico, parts of the Caribbean and the contiguous
waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans up to 500
miles off the North American coastline. More
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Lt. Brad Garber |
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— As he watched the towers fall, he knew that
his life was about to change again. The terrorist
attacks that rocked the nation on Sept. 11, 2001,
opened up a chapter in the book of Navy Lt. Brad
Garber's life that he thought was already slammed
shut. For Garber, the events of that day meant a
return to active duty. Story
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WORK — Senior Airman Daniel Avila
Jr., a U.S. Air Force intelligence applications
journeyman, works on maps at the Combined Air Operations
Center at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Avila is assigned
to the intelligence directorate supporting Operation
Northern Watch that has been enforcing the no-fly
zone over northern Iraq since 1991.U.S.
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