Recent federal deployments of the 40th MP Company include Fort Lewis, Washington
in support of Operation Noble Eagle (September 2002 – September
2003).
On September 15th, 2001, President George W. Bush authorized an executive
order in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks on the New York
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This order declared a national emergency
and a partial mobilization of the reserves for homeland defense and civil
support missions.
The Army share of the intial presidential order was about 10,000 soldiers from the Army Reserve and National Guard Bureau. The Air Force planned to call up around 13,000 reservists; the Navy, 3,000; the Marine Corps, 7,500; and the Coast Guard, 2,000.
Twenty-six Air Force bases had one hundred F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon fighter jets ready to scramble within ten minutes of a homeland security alert. During the first three months of the operation, more than 200 CAP missions were diverted in pursuit of suspicious aircraft. Other units that were called up include airlift, intelligence support, military police, medical, logistics, engineers, search and rescue, civil affairs, and chaplains.*
* Operation Noble Eagle
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/noble-eagle.htm
