By Molly Goddard
1:34pm PDT, Mar 18, 2025
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Kristi Noem is taking to the skies!
On Monday, March 17, the member of
Donald Trump's administration co-piloted a C-130 surveillance plane during a trip to greet and thank Coast Guard service members in Alaska.
Keep reading to see Noem showing off her flying skills…
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"Got the chance to fly a C-130 out of our U.S. Coast Guard base in Kodiak, Alaska. Air Station Kodiak is essential to our mission success for reconnaissance and search and rescue in Alaska and the Arctic," Kristi Noem captioned the
video shared to X of herself flying the plane.
"That must have been an incredible experience! Huge respect for the critical work done up there," one X user commented.
"This is too much. This
woman can do it all," a second person chimed in.
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Kristi Noem is having a busy week. On Sunday, March 16, the former governor of South Dakota gave her followers an update on the border wall Donald Trump has been promising to build since his first term.
"Everybody, I'm here in
Arizona, and right at this spot, you can see where the border wall ends," she said in a video. "As of today, we're starting seven new miles of construction. We're going to continue to make America safe again."
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During her time at the construction site, Kristi Noem gave an update on how the Trump administration has been curbing illegal
immigration and drug trafficking at the border.
"Just recently, we saw less than 200 encounters in a day. That's remarkable. Now our agents can get back to doing their jobs and enforcing the law instead of processing," she told NewsNation.
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Kristi Noem claimed Donald Trump's strict regulations have left criminals scrambling to figure out what to do.
"They recognize that we're enforcing our federal laws, that we're not letting people just walk across the
border anymore. We are building a wall, we are securing our borders and we're not going to let this illegal activity continue," she said.
