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Archive: 2017

3 pilots are teammates in the Guard but opponents in the sky
August 22, 2017 — OKLAHOMA CITY – It's common for Guard members to grow up in a unit and stay there for most of their... MORE

Guard colleagues but civilian competitors

New York City said goodbye to National Guard with massive parade in August 1917
August 22, 2017 — NEW YORK - Before they walked down the gangplank onto French soil in April 1918; 25,000 New York... MORE

Massive 1917 parade for New York Guard member

Army Guard vocalist makes the rounds in National Capital Region
August 16, 2017 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Army Maj. Edgar I. Quinones-Marin, a program analyst at the National Guard Bureau,... MORE

National Guard singer

Son of fallen Virginia National Guard officer enlists on parents' 20th anniversary
August 15, 2017 — RICHMOND, Va. – Twenty years after his parents got married and 10 years after losing his father in... MORE

Son of fallen Soldier enlists

Identical twins serve together in Air National Guard
August 11, 2017 — MANSFIELD, Ohio - Raven Hull, a personnel specialist at the 179th Airlift Wing here, and Lakota... MORE

Lakota Hull, left, and Raven Hull, twins pose for photo

100 years ago: Entire National Guard drafted for World War I
August 3, 2017 — ARLINGTON, Va. - On this date 100 years ago, August 5, 1917, the entire National Guard was drafted... MORE

Gearing up for World War I

Civil War-era cannonballs demolished at National Guard's Fort Indiantown Gap
August 3, 2017 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa.- Civilian authorities called upon the U.S. Army and the Pennsylvania... MORE

Old cannonballs destroyed at Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA

Guard Soldiers from around country trade old jobs for rocket launchers in Wyoming
August 2, 2017 — CAMP GUERNSEY JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Wyo. – The Wyoming Army National Guard's heritage is steeped in... MORE

New weapons training in Wyoming

Citizen-Warrior: Indiana Army Guard member blends firefighting, military into life of service
August 1, 2017 — INDIANAPOLIS — At the Indianapolis Fire Department's Station 15, located in the southeast part of... MORE

Tom Farrington, a firefighter with the Indianapolis Fire Department and a member of the Indiana Army National Guard, stands in front of one of the department’s ladder trucks. Farrington said the skills he uses as a firefighter easily translate over to the military side, just as his military skills benefit him as a firefighter.

Airmen, Soldiers train in Patriot North 2017 Exercise at Fort McCoy, Wis.
July 26, 2017 — FORT McCOY, Wis. - During the second half of July, Fort McCoy's Young Air Assault Strip on South... MORE

Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 376th Aviation Regiment, 63rd Theater Aviation Brigade of the Nebraska Army National Guard move cargo with a Chinook helicopter July 21, 2017, during operations during the Patriot North 2017 Exercise at the Young Air Assault Trip at Fort McCoy, Wis. Patriot North is a training exercise designed for civilian emergency management and responders to work with military entities in the same manner that they would during disasters.

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