Florida National Guard

Florida reports power restored to more than seventy percent of impacted customer accounts as of Monday afternoon, with boil water notices still in force in seven counties: Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Santa Rosa, Suwannee, Walton, and Washington.

About five thousand Florida National Guard soldiers and airmen remain activated.

The Guard has cleared more than twelve thousand five hundred thirty-six cubic acres of debris and seventeen hundred miles of roadway, and ninety-three percent of traffic signals in the impacted area are operational.

All Florida seaports and commercial service airports are open.

Follow the directions of our current governor, Ron DeSantis, a very capable leader in a moment of storms and state emergencies.

Our Florida National Guard, exemplary in this moment.

This is not a moment for politics.

We know that in Florida.

Follow the directions of our current governor, Ron DeSantis, a very capable leader in a moment of storms and state emergencies.

Our Florida National Guard, exemplary in this moment.

This is not a moment for politics.

We know that in Florida.

In Greek news, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called Greece an indispensable NATO partner, announced new counter-terrorism cooperation, and will speak from the Pnyx this evening.

Three agreements were signed covering cooperation with the Florida National Guard, renewed protection of archaeological and cultural material, and mutual recognition of seafarers' certificates.

Tonight at 6:00 p.m. in Athens, 11:00 a.m. Boston time, Rubio speaks from the place where ancient Athenians debated democracy.

The State Department says he will call on Americans and Europeans to join a great renewal of the Western spirit, stretching from Athens and Rome through Christendom to the American Republic.

So tell everybody what's happening this year for you.

On October 31st, I come off orders from 28 years of military service in the Florida National Guard.

Really looking forward to it.

It's been a great military career.

You don't typically make colonel without attending War College, which is, uh, another whole challenge and another master's degree in strategic studies, and it positions you to be available to be promoted to general officer.

My role since twenty eighteen has been a special staff officer with the adjutant general of Florida.

So I, I'm on the command floor of the command group and literally get to be in Joint Force headquarters over both the air and the army side of the house for the Florida National Guard.

And a lot of people don't fully understand what the National Guard does.

I've actually had some really robust discussions with our National Guard about it.

And listen, the Florida National Guard is almost like the Florida active duty.

We deploy the Florida National Guard on average 90 days a year, which actually makes it super hard to keep those guys because they're so proficient at their job that we tax them all the time in the work.

So I say that with like a little bit of grain of salt, because as we go to them, they're they have these capabilities that we've trained them in the CI world, right? Like they come to us from our federal training, which is really good.

So they're always willing to say yes.