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This article details Task Force Falcon's rapid deployment of over 500
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division to western North Carolina for Hurricane Helene relief
efforts. It chronicles their timeline, task organization, air movement planning, civil partner
integration, logistics challenges, and command and control adaptations while demonstrating how
mobile brigade combat team capabilities proved effective in humanitarian operations.
By LTC Walter C. Gray II, MAJ Paul Bingham, and CPT Matt Kenny