NORAD and USNORTHCOM Public Affairs
October 1, 2012
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - This is the first time the name of a U.S. military combatant command headquarters includes a Canadian military officer’s name.
USNORTHCOM 10th Anniversary Ceremony at NORAD & USNORTHCOM Headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO, Oct. 1, 2012. As part of the ceremony, the commands’ headquarters building was named in honor of retired Air Force Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart and retired Royal Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Eric A. Findley, who were instrumental in standing up NORTHCOM and reengineering NORAD to meet a new type of threat after the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Jhomil Bansil)
The North American Aerospace Defense and United States Northern Command headquarters building at Peterson Air Force Base was named the Eberhart – Findley Building today in honour of U.S. Air Force General (Ret.) Ralph E. Eberhart and Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-General (Ret.) Eric A. Findley. The naming ceremony occurred during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of U.S. Northern Command, the combatant command charged with the defense of the U. S. homeland following the 9/11 attacks.
General Eberhart and General Findley had the watch together on Sept. 11, 2001, to bring order to the chaos of that infamous day. As the decision was made to create a military command devoted to guarding the homeland, General Eberhart refined the initial concept of a combatant command for homeland defense, outlining the essential capabilities. At the same time, General Findley provided the personal and professional connection between a mature, bi-national command and a new, U.S. geographic command as NORAD Director of Operations and then Deputy Commander, NORAD.
