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New York Guard Hosts Swedish Air Force Leader
April 17, 2025
United States Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Bank, the commander of the New York Air National Guard and Swedish air force Maj. Gen. Jonas Wikman, chief of the Swedish air force, pose for a photo during a visit to Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, NY, Apr. 7.
Cavalry and Infantry Soldiers Win N.Y. Army Guard Best Warrior Competition
April 15, 2025
New York Army National Guard Soldiers take on the 12-mile ruck march to test endurance and resilience during the 2025 State Best Warrior Competition at Camp Smith Training Site, near Peekskill, N.Y., April 5, 2025.
Swedish Soldiers Compete in NY Guard Competition
April 15, 2025
Swedish Army Corporal Simon Drie Runnander, receives an award from New York Army National Guard Command Sgt. Major Edwin Garris, to mark his participation in the New York National Guard Best Warrior Competition, during a dinner at the United States Military Academy at West Point on April 10, 2025.
New York Guard Soldiers, Airmen on Duty for Prison Guard Strike
April 8, 2025
New Army York National Guard service members assigned to the 53rd Troop Command, 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion, and 642 Aviation Support Battalion, pose for a group photo at Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, N.Y., Feb 25, 2025.
New York Guard Members Showcase Service at School Career Day
March 21, 2025
U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Donald Trzepacz and Staff Sgt. Victoria Broadwell, aerospace medical service specialists assigned to the 107th Medical Group, 107th Attack Wing, New York Air National Guard, and a 7th grade student, during career day at the Lovejoy Discover School #43 in Buffalo, N.Y., March 20, 2025. New York Army and Air National Guardsmen were invited to the school to talk to students about what it’s like to serve in the armed forces.
New York National Guard Helps Fight Long Island Blaze
March 11, 2025
Members of the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing Fire Department and other local fire departments respond to the Pine Barrens fire off Sunrise Highway on Long Island, N.Y., March 8, 2025.
New York Guard, Sweden Develop New Partnership
March 10, 2025
New York National Guard and Swedish military members meet during a State Partnership Program engagement at New York National Guard headquarters in Latham, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2025. The State Partnership Program pairs state National Guards with the militaries of countries around the world in bilateral training and exchange partnerships.
Guardsmen Display Hand-to-Hand Combat Skills
February 24, 2025
Massachusetts Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Gerald Meuse, assigned to 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, and New York National Guard Maj. Joshua Bennet, assigned to the 42nd Infantry Higher Headquarters Battalion, are awarded lightweight and heavyweight awards in the Minutemen competition at Camp Smith Training Site, N.Y., Feb.2, 2025. The two-day event tested military members' combat training in martial arts disciplines.
NY Wing to Participate in Canadian Arctic Training Exercise
February 11, 2025
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Gadway, a member of the 109th Airlift Wing’s Polar Camp Skiway Team, grooms a ski landing area with a snow machine at Templeton Bay, Nunavut, Canada, March 13, 2023. The 109th’s LC-130's landed on the ski landing area to transport personnel and cargo to the austere Arctic environment during exercise Guerrier Nordique 2023.
Nevada Guard Airlift Wing Assists with Operation Deep Freeze
February 4, 2025
The Nevada Air National Guard's High Rollers arrive in Antarctica Dec. 18, 2024, to support the annual U.S. military mission in Antarctica. They flew augmented max duty day missions, logging over 30 hours in three days.
42nd Infantry Division Heads to Warfighter Exercise
January 17, 2025
Swedish military staff officers meet with leaders of the New York Army National Guard’s 42nd Infantry Division at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, during a command post exercise Nov. 21, 2024. The exercise was one of three command post exercises held to prepare for a division Warfighter exercise that begins Jan. 24, 2025.
New York Air Guard Wing Marks Ex-President Fillmore’s Birthday
January 8, 2025
Lt. Col. William Gourlay, 107th Mission Support Group commander, New York Air National Guard, lays the presidential wreath on Millard Fillmore's grave, Jan. 7, 2025, in Buffalo, New York.
New York Army Guard Engineers Heading for Horn of Africa
January 6, 2025
Soldiers assigned to the 152nd Engineer Support Company stand in formation during their farewell ceremony at Connecticut Street Armory in Buffalo, New York, Jan. 2, 2025. The unit will train in Texas, before heading to Africa to support Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.
New York National Guard Provides Funeral Honors for 8,700 Families
December 30, 2024
Soldiers assigned to the New York Army National Guard Honor Guard prepare to fold the American flag over the casket of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Casey Frankosk at the Gerald B. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville, New York, March 22, 2024. Frankoski, a helicopter pilot, died March 8 outside Rio Grande City, Texas, while patrolling the Southwest Border.
New York Air National Guard Helps Track Santa Claus
December 23, 2024
A New York Air National Guardsman assigned to the Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome, New York, prepares for NORAD Santa tracking operations. The annual NORAD Tracks Santa operation traces St. Nick's path around the world on Dec. 24.
New York Airmen Complete Brazilian Jungle Warfare Course
December 18, 2024
U.S. Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Gerardo Balsa and Staff Sgt. Grant Cozart, defenders with the 105th Airlift Wing’s Base Defense Group, pose with fellow graduates at the Brazilian Jungle Warfare School in Manaus, Brazil, Nov. 22, 2024. Balsa and Cozart are two of only 50 American military members to complete the course since it was established in 1964 to develop an operational unit that could use the Amazon jungle environment to its advantage.
New York Soldiers, Airman Celebrate National Guard’s Birthday
December 13, 2024
Maj. Gen. Michel Natali, New York assistant adjutant general, and Airman Gabriel Geise, 18, Master Sgt. Michel Schin, 59, and Pvt. 1st Class Aliyah Billar, 17, mark the 388th anniversary of the National Guard's birthday Dec. 13, 2024, at New York National Guard headquarters in Latham.
New York Airmen Honored for Saving Lives of 2 Wingmen
December 12, 2024
U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Roman Jeter, Staff Sgt. Timothy Horton, Capt. Sinead Kirnan and Master Sgt. Jaron Brown, Airmen with the 105th Airlift Wing, pose for a photo following a Henry W. Windels Wingman Award ceremony at Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh, New York, Dec. 8, 2024. Horton and Kirnan were recognized for saving the lives of Jeter and Brown.
New York Air National Guard Honors President Martin Van Buren
December 6, 2024
New York Air National Guard Brigadier General Gary Charlton and Command Chief Master Sergeant Michael Hewson salute after the placing a wreath from the White House during the annual wreath laying ceremony marking the birthday of President Martin Van Buren in Kinderhook, New York, on Dec. 5, 2024.
New York National Guardsmen Help Get Holiday Trees to Troops
December 3, 2024
New York Army National Guard Spc. Matt Clark lifts a donated Christmas tree from retired Command Sgt. Maj. Bob Van Pelt during the annual Trees for Troops loadout at Ellms Tree Farm in Ballston Spa, New York, Dec. 2, 2024. Tree farmers from New York’s capital and Saratoga regions donated 125 trees to be sent to military bases for the holidays.