Guard eyes changes in military liaison program.The National Guard's effort to create joint forces headquarters may include permanently assigned military liaison officers from each service, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. National Guard officials. The emergency preparedness liaison officers would be assigned to the guard's headquarters to help spotlight and coordinate military assets and capabilities during national crises, and be organized in a single, horizontally-integrated unit within the proposed headquarter head·quar·ter v. head·quar·tered, head·quar·ter·ing, head·quar·ters Usage Problem v.tr. To provide with headquarters: , said Maj. Gen. Timothy Lowenberg, adjutant ADJUTANT. A military officer, attached to every battalion of a regiment. It is his duty to superintend, under his superiors, all matters relating to the ordinary routine of discipline in the regiment. general for the State of Washington and the homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States chair at the Adjutant General Association, during congressional testimony in late April. "The liaison officers should work together as an integrated joint unit ... and report to and operate under the overall direction of NORTHCOM NORTHCOM United States Northern Command (Homeland Security) ," he said. The change, part of the wider reorganization of the National Guard's regional command structure, would replace a weaker version of the program that often brought reservists close to retirement into National Guard offices on a temporary basis, according to Col. Richard Patterson, spokesman for Lowenberg. "We'd get a real good Army reserve officer who would either be transferred or would retire," Patterson said. "We'd lose the continuity of that officer's ideas." Currently, the liaison offices appear during contingency planning but do not have a permanent home in National Guard headquarters. If the liaison officer idea is adopted, each service would have an assigned slot in each states' joint headquarters. In a similar fashion, reservists would find permanent positions as regional emergency preparedness liaison officers at Federal Emergency Management Agency The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the federal agency responsible for coordinating emergency planning, preparedness, risk reduction, response, and recovery. The agency works closely with state and local governments by funding emergency programs and providing technical regional headquarters. Details of the reorganization and Pentagon approval won't be finalized until 2005, Patterson said. |
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