The mission of Operation NOBLE EAGLE is to protect America over here. Homeland defense and civil support services are being provided by DoD's Total Force, including 50,000 members of the military reserves who have now been called to active duty. The mission of 0peration ENDURING FREEDOM is to fight terrorism at its source and the U.S. Air Force and its civil engineers have risen to the challenge. The Air Force responded to the all to fight terrorism with its full range of assets--literally thousands of airlift, bomber and fighter operations. Air Force civil engineers responded in kind, serving in our traditional roles and fighting our won kind of battle to bed down troops and aircraft in a hostile environment. In all, more than 400 CE's responded directly to the Sept. 11th attacks, providing firefighter, construction and explosive ordnance disposal support, not to mention those at Air Force and major command headquarters who stood up Crisis Action Teams (CATs).


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    Title :

    At War with Terrorism: Civil Engineer Support to Operations NOBLE EAGLE and ENDURING FREEDOM


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2002


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English