Jan. 22, 2025 DOD Orders 1,500 Troops, Additional Assets to Southern Border DOD is sending 1,500 active-duty service members and additional air and intelligence assets to the southern border to augment troops already conducting enforcement operations in that region, Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said.
June 16, 2022 Logistics Agreement Will Facilitate Aid in Western Hemisphere, Generals Say The commanders of U.S. Transportation Command and U.S. Southern Command signed a charter for a regional "Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Logistics Handbook for the Western Hemisphere."
Aug. 23, 2021 Fast-Paced Airport Ground Ops Keeps Evacuees Moving In the last 24 hours, more than 10,000 evacuees have been moved out of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. It's an exhausting pace the U.S. military will sustain so that everyone eligible to leave the country can get out, the commander of U.S. Transportation Command said.
Oct. 9, 2020 Transcom Acts Quickly During COVID-19 Pandemic For the Defense Department, U.S. Transportation Command and much of industry, there was no opportunity to stop movement as COVID-19 hit the nation, Transcom's commander said.
July 7, 2020 Urgent Acquisition Effort Provides Safe COVID-19 Patient Transport in 95 Days The Air Force, Air Mobility Command and U.S. Transportation Command have a new capability to bring large numbers of COVID-19 patients home via airlift without putting associated flight crews at risk — and the solution arrived quicker than expected.
April 24, 2020 DOD Plans for Resumption of Normal Operations After Pandemic Defense Department planners are working on how to resume normal military operations following the coronavirus pandemic, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman said.
March 8, 2018 Transcom Stands Ready To Respond, But Future Is Concerning, Commander Says The ability to deploy a decisive force is essential because “size and lethality of the force is of little consequence if we can’t get it where it needs to go when we want it there,” the commander of U.S. Transportation Command said.