Story by Suzan Holl | 20th CBRNE Command | 09.17.2018
Soldiers from the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives Command participated in the multi-agency Prominent Hunt exercise in Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado Sept. 17-21....
Story by Clemens Gaines | 20th CBRNE Command | 03.23.2018
Soldiers from the 71st Ordnance Group (EOD) joined military and civilian bomb squads to assess and defeat improvised explosive devices at Raven’s Challenge XII, March 19-23. The 16 Soldiers from five explosive ordnance companies were part of the 100 explosive ordnance disposal technicians presented with multiple training scenarios with exercise explosive devices in homes, desert shacks,......
Story by Kevan Goff-Parker | 72nd Air Base Wing | 11.15.2017
U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Vernon Paul Keaton, 18, was killed along with 428 of his shipmates during the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, while serving on the USS Oklahoma....
Story by Staff Sgt. Aaron Jenne | 436th Airlift Wing | 10.26.2017
In August 1992, Hurricane Andrew made landfall near Homestead, Florida. With winds measured as high as 196 miles per hour, the small hurricane packed a mighty punch, destroying or damaging about 127,000 homes and causing $26.5 billion in damage. At the time, it was America’s most costly natural disaster. According to The Weather Chanel, Hurricane Andrew is considered the fourth worst......
Story by Spc. Christopher Shannon | 102d Public Affairs Detachment | 04.08.2017
GULFPORT, Miss.--The Mississippi National Guard partnered with several emergency preparedness and law enforcement agencies to conduct Exercise Marlinspike II, April 3-6, 2017 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Exercise Marlinspike II is an interagency exercise designed for a unified response to weapons of mass destruction threats. The exercise was hosted and planned by Mississippi National......
Story by Staff Sgt. Scott Tynes | 102d Public Affairs Detachment | 01.18.2017
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – In order to help prepare the University of Southern Mississippi and the Hattiesburg area for a radiological threat, the Mississippi National Guard participated with local, state and federal agencies in an exercise at the college on Jan. 17 and 18....
Story by Cpl. Jessica Collins | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 01.11.2017
This year, Jan. 11 has been declared National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in an effort to bring more awareness to this ongoing plight....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 12.14.2016
Warfighters face a variety of threats including chemical substances, such as chlorine, that have the potential to be turned into weapons. First discovered in 1774 and later used as a chemical weapon during World War I and the ongoing Syrian conflict, chlorine is one of the most commonly manufactured chemicals in the United States. Chlorine plays an integral role in our daily lives – from a......
