DEFENDER 25 Outreach tour

 

 

DEFENDER is the Army’s largest annual opportunity to exercise moving personnel and equipment into theater across modes for initial and follow-on operations critical to Large Scale Combat Operations. Led by U.S. Army Europe and Africa, the exercise focuses on the strategic deployment of CONUS-based forces, employment of Army Prepositioned Stock and follow-on exercises demonstrating lethality and interoperability with Allies and partners

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Video by Spc. Michael Graf, Sgt. Caleb Woodburn
62nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion supports the southern border mission
DoD Southern Border 2025
March 25, 2025 | 2:06
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 62nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion – Enhanced, 11th Corps Signal Brigade, assemble a Hawkeye III satellite transmitter at Armed Forces Reserve Center, Laredo, Texas, on March 21, 2025. Under the direction of the U.S. Northern Command, Joint Task Force – Southern Border aligns efforts to seal the southern border and repel illegal activity and is responsible for full-scale, agile, and multi-domain operations, which will allow for more effective and efficient DoD operations. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security to augment U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southern border with additional military forces. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. Caleb Woodburn and Spc. Michael Graf)
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