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Project PEARL: Sustainable microgrid to deliver energy assurance
December 20, 2019
Representatives of the Pacific Energy Assurance Renewables Laboratory place their hands on a symbolic mound of earth during a blessing ceremony Dec. 17, 2019, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The ceremony honored a microgrid project designed to provide new layers of energy assurance and self-sustaining power sources to the 154th Wing.
NY National Guard Airmen helping NORAD track Santa this year
December 20, 2019
Airmen at the Eastern Air Defense Sector (EADS) train in preparation for Santa’s Christmas Eve flight at EADS headquarters in Rome, N.Y., Dec. 17, 2019. Pictured are, from right, Senior Airman Timothy Destito of the New York Air National Guard; Capt. John Byeon, Royal Canadian Air Force, and Capt. Sarah Atherton, New York Air National Guard. Atherton and Destito are members of the 224th Air Defense Squadron and Byeon is a member of the Canadian Detachment at EADS.
NGB helps PRANG protect network control center after hurricane
December 19, 2019
The National Guard Bureau’s A/6 communications directorate team tours the network control center at the 156th Wing, Puerto Rico Air National Guard, Dec. 10, 2019, to assess and finalize plans to move the NCC after the building it's in was severely damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
NY Guard leaders learn from history to prepare to deploy
December 19, 2019
Officers and senior non-commissioned officers assigned to the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division gather on the porch of the Central House Hotel in Germantown, N.Y., following a professional development lecture on Middle Eastern history by Bard College professor Sean McMeekin (center) Dec.13, 2019. McMeekin was asked to speak so the leaders could better understand the history of the region before the division deploys to Kuwait in 2020. The session was held in the hotel to accommodate the professor's schedule.
Volk Field evolves to continue legacy of service dating to 1888
December 19, 2019
1st. Lt. Jerome Volk, seen at his F-80 Shooting Star fighter jet in October 1951 while deployed in support of the Korean War. Volk, the first Wisconsin Air National Guard pilot to die in the line of duty during the Korean conflict, was shot down during a combat sortie against communist forces Nov. 7, 1951, and his remains have never been recovered. In 1957 the Wisconsin Legislature renamed the portion of Camp Williams used by the Wisconsin Air National Guard as Volk Field.
Pennsylvania Guard cyber challenge engages students
December 19, 2019
Soldiers with the Pennsylvania National Guard Cyber Branch and Recruiting and Retention Battalion engaged a group of 18 high school students in the new Wi-Fighter cyber challenge Dec. 12 at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pa. The winning team from Monroe Career and Technical Institute from right to left is: Chase Blecker, Rocco Susinskas, Jordan McGrath, and Liam Travers.
Florida Youth ChalleNGe changes lives for the better
December 18, 2019
Florida Youth ChalleNGe Academy class 37 valedictorian Michael Caldwell from Clearwater addresses his fellow cadets during their graduation ceremony Dec. 17 at Thrasher-Horne Center in Orange Park. Caldwell joined the program as a sophomore at risk of failing, and after enduring a rigorous five-and-a-half-month residential phase, he now has his GED and is looking forward to attending community college.
Missouri Airman returns to flight with one eye
December 18, 2019
U.S. Air Force Maj. Ed Fattmann, a pilot assigned to the 180th Airlift Squadron, Missouri Air National Guard, takes his first flight as an aircraft commander with one eye, above St. Joseph, Missouri, Sept. 4, 2019.
Kentucky Guard 1st Army agency to receive ACFT equipment
December 18, 2019
Staff Sgt. Zachary Casey of the Kentucky National Guard helps unload plastic crates containing the new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) equipment Dec. 11, 2019, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Maryland National Guard has Information Operations Symposium
December 17, 2019
1st Lt. Robert Douty provides a presentation on the 110th IO Battalion’s support of the joint exercise Pacific Sentry, with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Army Pacific. The Information Operations and Cyber Operations Symposium was held at the Annapolis Readiness Center, Nov. 17.
Soldiers serve in childhood town as commander, 1st sergeant
December 17, 2019
Idaho Army National Guard Capt. Robert Taylor and 1st Sgt. Derek Clemence serve in their childhood town of Mountain Home, Idaho, as commander and first sergeant of A Company, 116th Brigade Engineer Battalion. They grew up in the small town and are graduates of Mountain Home High School.
Sentry Eagle 2020: Preparation lays groundwork for exercise
December 17, 2019
The overall Sentry Eagle 2020 patch shows two F-15 aircraft over Crater Lake, Ore., one of the most distinctive geographic features near the 173rd Fighter Wing in Klamath Falls, Ore. The exercise planned for the summer of 2020 will feature this and several other patches.
Marksmanship unit holds annual sniper match
December 16, 2019
The Pennsylvania National Guard’s Marksmanship Training Unit (MTU) held its annual Pennsylvania State Sniper Match at Fort Indiantown Gap Dec. 5-8. The winners were Sgt. Jerick Chavez and Spc. Mark Schneider, with the Maryland National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, a component of the 28th Infantry Division.
188th Wing completes 1st flight commander leadership course
December 16, 2019
A newly commissioned officer as part of the Air Force’s Officer Training School class 19-07 participates in the graduation ceremony Sept. 27, 2019, in Montgomery, Alabama. The OTS graduation parade and ceremony signifies the end of the trainee’s initial officer training and the beginning of their career as an Air Force officer.
Preventing illness keeps Soldiers on mission
December 16, 2019
U.S. Army Spc. Shelby Vermeulen, with 1st Squadron, 303rd Cavalry Regiment, 96th Troop Command, Washington Army National Guard, works through the steps of water purification during a Field Sanitation Team Certification Course Dec. 9-13, 2019, at Joint Training Center-Jordan.
Enlisted Guard Soldiers graduate Army Ranger School
December 16, 2019
U.S. Army Sgt. Danielle Farber, Pennsylvania National Guard 166th Regional Training Institute Medical Battalion Training Site instructor, and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jessica Smiley, South Carolina National Guard military police non-commissioned officer serving with the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, on Dec. 13, 2019, became the first enlisted National Guard women to graduate U.S. Army Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia.
30th ABCT celebrates National Guard's 383rd birthday
December 13, 2019
U.S. Army Col. Robert Bumgardner, commander of the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, North Carolina Army National Guard, is flanked by the youngest Soldier and most senior Soldier in the ranks for a cake-cutting ceremony in honor of the National Guard's 383rd birthday, at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Dec. 13, 2019. Joining Bumgardner were Pfc. Charlie Christie, of the Ohio Army National Guard’s 145th Armor Regiment, and Chaplain Maj. William Withers of the 236th Brigade Engineer Battalion, North Carolina Army National Guard. The unit is deployed in the Middle East to support Operation Spartan Shield.
Family from the 121st prioritizes service
December 13, 2019
Carson Walker was sworn into the 121st Air Refueling Wing in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 25, 2019. Carson is carrying on a family tradition as his mother, father, and brother have all served at the 121st ARW.
Aviation safety stressed at annual conference
December 12, 2019
A Soldier kneels in front of a Battlefield Cross memorializing the fallen Minnesota Army National Guard Soldiers who died Dec. 5, 2019, in a UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter crash outside St. Cloud, Minn. The memorial was posted outside a ballroom at the fiscal year 2020 Aviation Safety and Standardization Conference in Tucson, Ariz.
Nebraska National Guard, Rwanda formalize state partnership
December 12, 2019
Rwanda’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Jean-Bosco Kazura, and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac, Nebraska National Guard adjutant general, sign a document officially forming a new partnership under the State Partnership Program, Dec. 12, 2019, in Kigali, Rwanda. Watching the signing is Peter Vrooman, U.S. ambassador to Rwanda.