The Department of Arizona is one of three supporting departmental support element organizations, within the MOWW, Region XIII field operational hierarchy. Along with the addition of the Greater El Paso Chapter (located in west Texas) under the oversight of the Department of the Rio Grande, the Great Salt Lake Chapter Cadre development operation in the state of Utah, two Chapters operating under the oversight of the Department of the Rocky Mountains in the state of Colorado and two Chapters operating under the oversight of the Department of the Rio Grande in the New Mexico-Texas region and the state of Wyoming make up our Region XIII field operations. The Department of Arizona provides administrative and operational oversight to five field Chapters throughout the state of Arizona. Three are geographically located in central Arizona (Phoenix metropolitan area) and two Chapters operate in southern portions of the state in the greater Tucson and south of Tucson urban and rural communities, all the way south on the I-19 corridor southward to the Arizona-Mexico international border region in Nogales, Arizona.