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Task Force 'Good Neighbor' leaves Haiti a better place
June 22, 2011
Army Col. Kenneth Donnelly, commander of Task Force Bon Voizen and a Louisiana National Guard member, turns over the keys of a new school and medical clinic to the residents of Upper Poteau, Haiti, June 20, 2011. The school and clinic were two of the engineer projects built in Haiti by troops of Task Force Bon Voizen.

Minnesota National Guard truly 'builds' partnership with Croatia
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Robert Engeholm, a vertical engineer and team leader with the 851st Vertical Engineer Company of the Minnesota National Guard, works with a Croatian soldier to construct a ceiling with concrete blocks, June 15, 2011. Squads of Minnesota Guard members have been rotating through Nasice, Croatia, which is located on the northern slopes of Krndija Mountain in eastern Slavonia, for annual training this spring and summer. The Soldiers are working side by side with Croatian army engineers to complete a project designed to provide training and strengthen the cooperative relationship that exists between Minnesota and Croatia, who are partners through the National Guard's State Partnership Program.

Deployed Guard members use medieval war games for entertainment
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Paul Hanson (left), a convoy escort team gunner with Alpha Company, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, brings his sword to bear against Army Sgt. John Oglesby, a convoy escort team gunner with Co. A, 1-163 CAB, in “The Pit” on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. Oglesby has been sparring for about 25 years and shares his hobby with fellow Solders while deployed.

Puerto Rico National Guard brings special skills to Fuerzas Comando 2011
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Eric Sierra, a Puerto Rican National Guard Soldier assigned to the 191st Readiness Support Company, pumps fuel into a gas can for vehicles in support of the Fuerzas Comando 2011 competition June 13, 2011. Fuerzas Comando, established in 2004, is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored special operations skills competition and senior leader seminar which is conducted annually in Central and South America and the Caribbean and is scheduled to run June 15-23.

Guard-led task force wins hearts 'one patient at a time'
June 20, 2011

Massachusetts, Louisiana Guard work together, provide safe water in Haiti
June 15, 2011
Army Sgt. 1st Class Stanley Martin, senior enlisted leader of the 125th Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit, and Army 2nd Lt. Danielle Golden, the 125th’s mission commander in Haiti, test the well water for impurities at a school in Gonaives, Haiti, May 16, 2011. Task Force Bon Voizen, New Horizons Haiti 2011, is a U.S. Southern Command sponsored, U.S. Army South conducted, joint foreign military interaction/humanitarian exercise under the command of the Louisiana National Guard. Task Force Bon Voizen is deploying U.S. military engineers and medical professionals to Haiti for training and to provide humanitarian services.

Montana National Guard members provide security on roads, under different sky
June 15, 2011
Army Sgt. Brandon Paye, a truck commander for Company B, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, talks to his driver during a convoy escort and security mission bringing his set back from Victory Base Complex to Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, June 5, 2011.

Army National Guard’s top enlisted leader acknowledges Soldiers’ sacrifices
June 15, 2011
Army Command Sgt. Maj. Richard Burch, the command sergeant major of the Army National Guard, shakes the hand of Army Spc. Vernon Moore, a military policeman and gunner from with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment, Task Force Redhorse, a part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, at the entry control point on Joint Combat Outpost Pul-E-Sayad, Afghanistan May 27, 2011. Burch visited the JCOP during a battlefield rotation he conducted with Army Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Chandler, the command sergeant major of the Army.

Iowa Guard truck drivers deliver under fire
June 14, 2011
Army Sgt. Jared Henkle and Army Spc. Tyler Parker-Bellinger, both truck
drivers with Company E, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, Task Force
Ironman, a part of the Iowa National Guard's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th
Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls, listen to a mission brief June 6,
2011, on Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, shortly before going
on a convoy. The pair recently found themselves resupplying soldiers from the
133rd who were under heavy fire in Nuristan province.

COMMENTARY: Georgia Guard works with Georgia nation
June 13, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. William Nesbitt