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Joint Task Force North
Joint Task Force North (JTF North), based
at Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss, Texas, is the Department of
Defense (DOD) organization tasked to support our nation’s federal
law enforcement agencies in the interdiction of suspected
transnational threats within and along the approaches to the
continental United States. Transnational threats are those
activities conducted by individuals or groups that involve
international terrorism, narco-trafficking, alien smuggling, weapons
of mass destruction, and the delivery systems for such weapons that
threaten the national security of the United States
Standing Joint Force Headquarters
U.S. Northern Command Standing Joint
Force Headquarters’ mission is to provide Commander, USNORTHCOM with
the scalable capability to form the core of a Joint Task Force or to
augment multiple organizations in order to anticipate and conduct
Homeland Defense and Civil Support missions anywhere in the
USNORTHCOM Area of Responsibility during planned or crisis
operations.
Army North
U.S. Army North (ARNORTH) is the Army
component of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), the combatant
command established Oct. 1, 2002 to provide command and control of
Department of Defense (DOD) homeland defense efforts and to
coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
Located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
ARNORTH’s mission is to conduct homeland defense, civil support
operations and theater security cooperation activities. On order,
U.S. Army North commands and controls deployed forces as a Joint
Task Force or Joint Force Land Component Command.
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