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Article: Interoperability, National Guard style: new technology links public safety and military responders.(FIRE TECHNOLOGY)
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- Firehouse Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Many threats, natural and man made, confront the United States today. Protecting the U.S. homeland from attack is the highest priority of the Department of Defense. The world changed dramatically on Sept. 11, 2001. The United States must never underestimate the devastation that terrorists seek to bring to Americans at home. To defeat 21st-century threats requires innovative thought, planning and action.
By law and tradition, the National Guard connects local communities to the federal government. National Guard units are in most large localities, and they have the capabilities, legal authority and structure to respond to attacks or natural disasters within the ...