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Nebraska Guard Soldier is team member for VIP visitors to Baghdad
March 21, 2017
Spc. Michael Chelewski, Joint Visitors Bureau specialist, Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command - Operation Inherent Resolve, hangs a flag in preparation for a promotion ceremony in Baghdad on Dec. 3, 2016.

Guard members from several states training with Latvian forces
March 21, 2017
Tech Sgt. Jennifer Schroeder, a Weather Craftsman from the 125th Weather Flight and a native of Tulsa, Okla., and Master Sgt. Seth Huisenga, a Weather Craftsman from the 125th Weather Flight, Oklahoma Air National Guard, and a native of Bixby, Okla., conduct a shift change brief of the Staff Weather Officer station during Allied Spirit VI at the 7th Army Training Command’s Hohenfels Training Area. Allied Spirit VI is a multinational exercise involving 12 nations and over 2,700 troops.

29th ID Soldier reflects on mentorship during Women's History Month
March 16, 2017
Sgt. Claudia Keit, a Virginia Army National Guard member with the 29th Infantry Division poses with her "Wilson" a stress relief ball at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, March 11, 2017. Keit is a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear noncommissioned officer deployed as part of Operation Spartan Shield and is a featured NCO for Women's History Month.

Iowa's 185th Air Refueling Wing at work in Germany with NATO
February 24, 2017
Lt. Col. Charles Taylor, a pilot assigned to the 185th Air Refueling Wing, examines preflight checklists on a KC-135 aircraft at Geilenkirchen NATO Air Base on Feb. 14 2017. Approximately 40 members of the 185th are working at the air base supporting NATO training operations.

369th Sustainment Brigade trains on Army’s newest communications equipment in Kuwait
February 2, 2017
Signal Soldiers of the 369th Sustainment Brigade practice aligning a Ground Antenna Transmit Receive (GATR) Ball at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait on Jan. 10, 2017. The GATR Ball is a portable satellite communications system that can be deployed to remote areas in a relatively short amount of time.

South Carolina National Guard looks back at Operation Desert Storm
January 17, 2017
South Carolina Army National Guard Soldiers with the 251st Rear Area Operations Center at Log-base "Charlie" near the Saudi/Iraq border deployed to Southwest Asia starting on Jan. 9, 1991, to provide support during Operation Desert Storm. The South Carolina National Guard deployed more than 2,400 Army and Air Guard service members during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, representing 11 different Army Guard units and eight Air Guard units.