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SECDEF 'wanted to stress his appreciation' in call to Guard member
July 7, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Kelly Ann Pels, of Cincinnati, with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, United States Division - Center, receives a call from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, July 4, 2011, at Camp Victory in Baghdad. Pels was one of six deployed service members the defense secretary called to personally thank them for their service on Independence Day.
Georgia Guard members mentor state partners in emergency preparedness exercise
July 6, 2011
Shared Horizons 11 kicked off at the Republic of Georgia National Guard Training Center in Tbilisi. The U.S. Army Europe-led table-top exercise is designed to prepare the RoG government to provide civil response in the event of a natural disaster. Shared Horizons 11 includes about 100 personnel from various RoG ministries and Georgia National Guard members who have worked together under the State Partnership Program for 16 years.
Brothers devote 50 Years to Iowa Guard
July 6, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Rich Fiedler, left, and his brother, Army Sgt. 1st Class Tim Fiedler, right, sit together June 14, 2011, on Combat Outpost Najil in Afghanistan’s Laghman province. The Fiedler brothers have more than 50 years of combined service in the Iowa National Guard’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment.
Colorado Army National Guard discovers, recovers missing hikers
July 6, 2011
A Colorado Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the High-altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site (HAATS) in Gypsum, Colo., lands on the summit of Missouri Mountain to transport rescuers to the scene where a father and daughter hiking team went missing June 28.
National Guard is piece of Arctic puzzle
July 6, 2011
Shared Horizons 11 kicked off at the Republic of Georgia National Guard Training Center in Tbilisi. The U.S. Army Europe-led table-top exercise is designed to prepare the RoG government to provide civil response in the event of a natural disaster. Shared Horizons 11 includes about 100 personnel from various RoG ministries and Georgia National Guard members who have worked together under the State Partnership Program for 16 years.
Washington Air Guard JTACs decisive in face of massive ambush
July 6, 2011
Senior Airman Michael McAffrey from Tacoma, Wash., a Joint Terminal Attack Controller with the 116th Air Support Operations Squadron, Washington Air National Guard, gives Afghan children bottles of water after completing a mission in Khanda Village, Laghman province, Afghanistan, June 18, 2011. Soldiers of the Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, Task Force Ironman, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 34th Mountain Division, TF Red Bulls, credited the efforts of McAffrey, as well as the other JTACs from the 116th ASOS, as being the difference in the Battle of Do Ab, May 25, and with saving many of the Soldiers’ lives that day.
North Carolina Guard prepares Moldovan Army for peacekeeping
June 30, 2011
Army Sgt. 1st Class Charles Young, North Carolina National Guard member, observes as soldiers of the Moldovan army's 22nd Peace Keeping Battalion crouch after hearing the alarm for an explosion device found on their mock base during a training exercise here June 24, 2011. The 22nd PKB soldiers participated in exercises to show off their capabilities as a unit before their NATO evaluation, a weeklong exercise called Peace Shield 2011 that kicked off June 27.
National Guard units provides needed supplies, saves lives
June 24, 2011
A C-130 Hercules from the New York Air National Guard airdrops much-needed supplies to a forward operating base in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan, June 22, 2011. The New York ANG C-130 flew the airdrop mission in conjunction with another C-130 from the Alaska ANG. Airdrops help mitigate the danger of transporting supplies via convoy.
Kansas National Guard Agribusiness Development Team conducts ‘spur ride’ tradition
June 23, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Pierce, a squad leader for the 3/6 Kansas Cavalry Agribusiness Development Team-III, and Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Kaltenborn, the security forces platoon sergeant also with the ADT, watch as spur ride candidate Air Force Senior Airman Melissa Hidalgo Mendez, a medic and possibly the first female Kansas Air Guard member to ear spurs, demonstrates her weapon skills with the M-16 rifle during her trek through the spur ride conducted on Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, May 25. Pierce and Kaltenborn are spur holders. The tradition of the spur ride and 'earning the spurs' goes back to the origin of the U.S. Cavalry, with new riders learning the ropes prior to donning the spurs that earmark a cavalryman.
British soldier works with South Dakota Guard unit during flood operations
June 22, 2011
British Reserves Cpl. Arseny Barkovskiy conducts drivers training in a South Dakota National Guard M-998 “Humvee” truck on Monday June 20, 2011, during the ongoing flood prevention operations along the Missouri River at Dakota Dunes, S.D. Barkovskiy, a British military police soldier with the Allied Rapid Corps’ Military Police Battalion from London, was attached to the South Dakota National Guard’s 235th Military Police Company for two weeks as part of the U.S. Army’s Personnel Exchange Program.