USA — General Lauds Guard, Northcom Partnership

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., Feb. 10, 2011 — U.S. North­ern Com­mand depends heav­i­ly on the Nation­al Guard and is look­ing for more oppor­tu­ni­ties to expand that part­ner­ship, Northcom’s deputy com­man­der said here recent­ly.

Army Lt. Gen. Frank J. Grass, deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command
Army Lt. Gen. Frank J. Grass, deputy com­man­der of U.S. North­ern Com­mand, address­es atten­dees at the 2011 Nation­al Guard Bureau Domes­tic Oper­a­tions Work­shop held at the Gay­lord Nation­al Con­ven­tion Cen­ter in Nation­al Har­bor, Md., Jan. 20, 2011.
U.S. Army pho­to by Sgt. Dar­ron Salz­er
Click to enlarge

In remarks Jan. 20 dur­ing the Nation­al Guard Bureau Domes­tic Oper­a­tions Work­shop, Army Lt. Gen. Frank J. Grass said the Nation­al Guard is Northcom’s most impor­tant part­ner in its three crit­i­cal mis­sion areas: home­land defense, secu­ri­ty coop­er­a­tion and civ­il support. 

“And if you look across the board at the things that we do,” he added, “there is not a mis­sion that we do that the Air Guard or Army Guard does­n’t touch every day or accom­plish for us.” 

Grass said part­ner­ing between North­com and the Nation­al Guard is a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of today’s nation­al secu­ri­ty strategy. 

Grass not­ed eight areas of focus for North­com that affect the home­land the most and said some of those areas hold poten­tial for growth in the North­com-Nation­al Guard Partnership. 

The focus areas are:
— Coun­tert­er­ror­ism and force pro­tec­tion;
— Com­bat­ing transna­tion­al crim­i­nal orga­ni­za­tions;
— Defense sup­port of civ­il author­i­ties;
— Chem­i­cal, bio­log­i­cal, radi­o­log­i­cal and nuclear con­se­quence man­age­ment;
— Mar­itime warn­ing;
— Aero­space warn­ing and con­trol;
— Mis­sile defense; and
— The Arc­tic region. 

“We are inter­est­ed in hear­ing from the states through the Nation­al Guard Bureau on where [our two agen­cies] can part­ner more,” the gen­er­al said. “The Nation­al Guard makes me proud every day, and it will be writ­ten in his­to­ry that [the Guard] did an amaz­ing job for the nation, and that you are a true nation­al treasure.” 

Source:
U.S. Depart­ment of Defense
Office of the Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense (Pub­lic Affairs) 

Face­book and/or on Twit­ter

Team GlobDef

Seit 2001 ist GlobalDefence.net im Internet unterwegs, um mit eigenen Analysen, interessanten Kooperationen und umfassenden Informationen für einen spannenden Überblick der Weltlage zu sorgen. GlobalDefence.net war dabei die erste deutschsprachige Internetseite, die mit dem Schwerpunkt Sicherheitspolitik außerhalb von Hochschulen oder Instituten aufgetreten ist.

Alle Beiträge ansehen von Team GlobDef →