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Virgin Islands National Guard Soldiers preparing for Vigilant Guard
May 15, 2017
Virgin Islands National Guard service members and visiting Title 32 and Title 10 forces plan and coordinate operations in the joint operations center at the Leonard B. Francis Readiness Center on St. Thomas, VI, May 14, 2017. The JOC will serve as the main operations hub for Vigilant Guard 17-03, a disaster response exercise hosted by VING and U.S. Northern Command.
Puerto Rico National Guard gives scoop on helicopter buckets to its state partners
May 12, 2017
Guard members from Puerto Rico answer questions about helicopter bucket use in forest fires for a visiting delegation from their visitors in the State Partnership Program in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Unique challenges spurred great training for New York Army National Guard snipers
May 12, 2017
Sgt. David Peters, 2nd Squadron 101st Cavalry; and Staff Sgt. Masami Yamakado, 1st Battalion 69th Infantry, pose for a team photo at the 26th Winston P. Wilson Sniper Championship at Ft. Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ark. on April 27, 2017.
Colorado National Guard flies flood victims to safety
May 12, 2017
A Colorado National Guard Black Hawk helicopter crew from Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colo., assists with evacuations during the Beulah Flood in Pueblo County, May 11, 2017.
Indiana's 81st Troop Command joins in national disaster exercise
May 11, 2017
National Guard members take part in a crowd control exercise for Exercise Guardian Response 17 at the Jennings County Fairgrounds May 7, 2017. Simulated riots were staged in order to prepare first responder groups to react to the immediate consequences of a major crisis.
Indiana National Guard unit rehearses with partner Slovakia during Saber Junction 17 exercise
May 11, 2017
Maj. Gen. David Wood, commanding general, 38th Infantry Division, and Sgt. Maj. James Martin, command sergeant major, 38th Infantry Division, visit the operations center during Saber Junction 17 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany May 4, 2017.
Ohio's 180th Fighter Wing Airmen participate in water survival training
May 10, 2017
Lt. Col. Nicholas Zetocha, air sovereignty alert commander assigned to the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, crashes into the water after being dragged in to simulate an ejection landing May 6, 2017 during water survival training at the Aqua Hut in Toledo, Ohio.
National Guard chief visits Northern Lightning exercise at Wisconsin's Volk Field
May 10, 2017
Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, listens to a brief about the F-35 joint strike fighter's capabilities during a visit to Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center on May 5, 2017, to observe Northern Lightning, an annual counterland training exercise that began May 1 and will end May 12.
Two Wyoming Guard members get rescue award for Afghanistan mission
May 10, 2017
Wyoming Army National Guard soldiers Staff Sgt. Derrick Perkins, a medic, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bryan Herget, a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot, receive the Dustoff Association’s Rescue of the Year award for their heroic effort that saved the lives of five critically wounded Soldiers during a medevac mission in Afghanistan in 2015.
Illinois Army National Guard takes third in Gainey Cup scout contest
May 9, 2017
Army National Guard competes in the stress-shoot portion of the Gainey Cup competition held at Fort Benning, Ga., on May 4, 2017.
Wyoming National Guard and Tunisia continue to perfect partnership
May 9, 2017
In 2016, the Wyoming National Guard began the Humanitarian Mining Action mission, a State Partnership Program-leveraged program, in Tunisia. The HMA is a Department of Defense program that provides education and training in finding, clearing and securing land mines and other explosive remnants of war. In March 2017, a team of engineers from the Wyoming Army National Guard traveled to Tunisia to assist with advising them on building a culvert that would act as a training site in finding and clearing culverts of explosive hazards.
Colorado Air National Guard members deploy to Japan
May 9, 2017
Maj. Gregory “Amp” Gossner, a pilot with the 120th Fighter Squadron, 140th Wing, Colorado Air National Guard, says goodbye to his loved ones as he prepares to deploy to Kadena Air Base, Japan, for the Theater Security Package.
New York Airmen in right place to manage serious car crash
May 9, 2017
Tech Sgt. Seth Stucker, first sergeant assigned to the 274th Air Support Operations Squadron, New York Air National Guard, Syracuse, is one of two Airmen along with Tech Sgt. Brandon Mason, a support services specialist assigned to the 274th ASOS, who responded to the scene of a car accident outside of the main gate of Hancock Airfield, April 4, 2017. Stucker, who has a medical background in the Air Force, was first on the scene to render aid to the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle that crashed, until EMS and other local emergency services arrived.
Trans-Pacific disaster exercise Gobi Wolf 2017 concludes in Mongolia
May 9, 2017
Mongolia National Emergency Management Agency Brig. Gen. Badral Tuvshin greets U.S. Army Maj. Edwin Morton, Gobi Wolf 2017 exercise director and lead U.S. planner, May 1, 2017, during an exercise reception dinner in Dalanzadgad, Mongolia. GW 17 was hosted by the Mongolia National Emergency Management Agency and Mongolian Armed Forces as part of the United States Army Pacific’s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief “Pacific Resilience” series.
Firefighting missions boost Wyoming Air Guard pilot's passion for flying
May 8, 2017
Airline pilot Ryan Scofield, pictured here in his cockpit, April 28, 2017, has flown for a commercial airline carrier for 12 years. When he's not in an Airbus A320, he’s piloting a C-130H Hercules aircraft for the Wyoming Air National Guard's 187th Airlift Squadron based in Cheyenne.
National Guard engineers make their own path in Romania
May 8, 2017
Spc. Jeffrey Nichols of the 381st Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, United States Army Reserves, bulldozes rock for a road on the Non-Standard Live-Fire Range at Joint National Training Center, Cincu, Romania, as part of Resolute Castle 17. Resolute Castle 17 is an exercise strengthening the NATO alliance and enhancing its capacity for joint training and response to threats within the region.
Missouri man serves childhood community when flooding strikes
May 8, 2017
First Lt. Kacey Proctor, the officer in charge of the Missouri Army National Guard’s 1138th Engineer Company out of Farmington, Missouri, volunteered for state emergency duty when flood waters threatened his childhood home in Poplar Bluff.
ANG to name building in honor of former NGB Chief Craig McKinley
May 5, 2017
The Air National Guard's I.G. Brown Training and Education Center mixed-use facility, Buildings 418, 414A-B, is a 46,871 square foot classroom and dormitory facility for training and education at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in east Tennessee. The facility was constructed from August 2014 to January 2017.
Salvadoran partners engage in Best Warrior Competition with New Hampshire Soldiers
May 5, 2017
Cpl. Rudy Santos Santos of Comando Especial Antiterrorista of the El Salvadoran Army operates an M249 light machine gun during the New Hampshire National Guard's 2017 Best Warrior competition at New Castle April 9. This year marked the first time two Soldiers from El Salvador, New Hampshire’s State Military partner, competed in the three-day competition alongside 22 New Hampshire Guardsmen, showing off skills in marksmanship, first aid, physical training and land navigation among others.
ANZAC Day: Task Force Spartan senior leaders pay tribute to Allies’ fallen Soldiers
May 5, 2017
Soldiers of the Australian New Zealand Army Corps commemmorate ANZAC day at the Australian Embassy in Kuwait City Kuwait April 25, 2017. The ceremony remembers the ANZAC forces landing at Gallipolli, Turkey April 25, 1915.