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My name is Major General Connie Jenkins ,

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Director of Logistics and Engineering

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at United States Northern Command and

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North American Aerospace Defense

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Command . And my name is S Major

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Montreal Key , the Director of

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Logistics and Engineering senior and

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leader in my position . I am

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responsible for synchronizing and

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aligning the right tools in the right

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place at the right time to ensure we

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are able to address the needs of the

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North American continent , whether that

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means responding to an attack on our

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homelands or responding to areas hit

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hard by severe weather and or natural

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disasters . We will be ready to answer

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our nation's call NORAD and Us North

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Com's mission is to defend the

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homelands of Canada and the US North

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com is also the force projection hub

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for all of the US combatant commands

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across the globe . We coordinate with

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all of the services , allies , peers

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and leadership to get it right . In

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order to accomplish this mission , we

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rely on supply chain , redundancy ,

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critical infrastructure , modernization

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and strategic partnerships . These

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partnerships span across the organic

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industrial base , defense , industrial

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base , and commercial industrial base .

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Whether that means we shift military

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assets from one state to another or

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work with other agencies to help

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deliver water or supplies to those in

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need . We at us , Norcom are prepared .

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We have partnerships . We have plans ,

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we have backups to our backups to

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ensure resiliency and the capability to

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endure . We embody the same fighting

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spirit of the American and Canadian

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families who not only endure disasters

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but grow stronger and closer after them .

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We have planned , we have prepared . We

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operate and we succeed because at NORAD

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and US North Com , we have the watch .