OCTOBER 9, 2024 - Officials from the United States Army’s Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (PEO MS) and Army Contracting Command (ACC)– Redstone Arsenal executed an Undefinitized contract award for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rocket production. The contract awarded to Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is worth $4.1 billion and will procure … [Read more...]
Recovery Task Force Rescues Helene Survivors
OCTOBER 9, 2024 - Airmen mobilized as the 41st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron and 563d Personnel Recovery Task Force, from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, rescued four injured civilians, one critically injured, during search and rescue efforts in North Carolina, Oct. 5. In support of a Federal Emergency Management Agency mission assignment, the 563d PRTF has been … [Read more...]
DoD Prepares for Hurricane Milton
OCTOBER 9, 2024 - The National Guard and active duty forces have been engaged in relief efforts across the southeastern United States following Hurricane Helene, which made landfall late last month. But at the same time that work is going on, Singh said, the Defense Department is readying itself for the next storm, Hurricane Milton. In North Carolina, one of the areas … [Read more...]
Guard Provides Drinking Water to Helene Victims
U.S. Army National Guard Spc. Diamond Espinoza, a water treatment specialist assigned to Alpha Company 169th Divisional Sustainment Support Battalion, pumps water for a local in Mountain City, Tennessee, Oct. 6, 2024. The Tennessee National Guard continues to support the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency and the state, county and local first responders in the areas impacted … [Read more...]
Air Guard Delivers 450,000 Pounds of Cargo
Members of the North Carolina Air National Guard load hurricane relief pallets onto a C-17 Globemaster III for delivery to Western North Carolina in support of humanitarian efforts following Tropical Storm Helene at the North Carolina Air National Guard, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, October 3, 2024. The hurricane relief pallets contain Meals ready to Eat (MREs), … [Read more...]