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Missouri National Guard completes flooding emergency response; shifts to recovery efforts
January 8, 2016
During a press conference Jan. 6, 2016, at Jefferson Barracks Air National Guard Base, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon briefed the media and members of the Missouri National Guard on debris removal and recovery operations under way that the Guard will lead with federal, state and local partners in the coming weeks following historic flooding across the state.
Oregon Airman balances cycling With Air Guard mission
January 7, 2016
Oregon Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Dwayne Farr, assigned to the 142nd Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, poses with one of his bicycles at the air base public affairs office, Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon, April 7, 2013. Farr has been training and racing as an endurance cyclist during the past four years and was part of the Military World Games in Mungyeoung, Korea, Oct. 6, 2015.
Iowa Soldier helps police understand sex assault victims
January 6, 2016
Sgt. Maggie Passer, a victim advocate coordinator with the Iowa National Guard since 2013, is assisting the Camp Dodge-based Iowa Law Enforcement Academy with its training.
Air National Guard Director Stanley E. Clarke retires after more than 34 years of service
January 5, 2016
Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke III listens while retired Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley reflects on Clarke’s career during the former’s retirement ceremony at the Air National Guard Readiness Center, Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Dec. 18, 2015. Clarke is the 15th director of the Air National Guard.
Citizen-Soldier supports New Mexico Guard in his civilian capacity
January 4, 2016
Pfc. David Mathews, a Soldier with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 717th Brigade Support Battalion, poses next to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter used by the air medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) crews of Company C, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment. The MEDEVAC was staged at the airport in Carlsbad in order to provide timely response in case of an emergency warranting their launch. Mathews, an employee of Chandler Aviation, supported the Soldiers from his civilian capacity.
Missouri Guard members continue to battle historic flooding
January 1, 2016
Missouri National Guardsmen stage potable water tankers at High Ridge Elementary School on Dec. 31, 2015.
Extreme weather makes 2015 National Guard’s busiest year since 2011
December 31, 2015
Soldiers from the Idaho Army National Guard's 2nd Squadron, 116th Cavalry Regiment prepare to head out on a training exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California in August, 2015.
Historic flood levels bring out the National Guard in Missouri, elsewhere
December 31, 2015
Soldiers from the 1137th Military Police Company discuss logistics at a notification point in Perryville, Missouri. More than 515 National Guard personnel were on duty in the hard-hit state due to historic levels of water.
Youth ChalleNGe program helps “at risk” teens find roads to success
December 30, 2015
Devin Dunn, a cadet with the Maryland National Guard’s Freestate ChalleNGe Academy, which provides a means for "at risk" 16-to-18-year-olds to earn their GED certificate or high school diploma, works through math problems during class at the academy, Nov. 17, 2015. Part of the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe Program, which includes 37 academies throughout the country, the Freestate ChalleNGe Academy opened in 1993 and was one of the first academies of the program.
New Mexico National Guard transports people needing medical treatment during blizzard
December 30, 2015
Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Vaillancourt, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 717th Brigade Support Battalion, takes a chilly photo with a Roswell citizen he helped transport to the Fresenius Medical Care center Dec. 29. One of the missions currently being performed by members of the New Mexico National Guard is the transportation of Roswell, N.M., citizens in need of dialysis treatments. Citizens were snowed in to their homes due to a winter blizzard that caused roads to be impassable. For at least two days, local members of the National Guard traversed the icy, snow packed conditions to help citizens in need. (Courtesy photo)
Buffalo Army National Guard Unit honored for unit video by New York's adjutant general
December 29, 2015
New York Army National Guard's 152nd Engineer Company, recipients of the New York National Guard's 2015 best unit video award for their production highlighting unit annual training, disaster response operations, unique engineer competitions and the organization's family readiness program.
New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen conducted more than 10K military funerals in 2015
December 29, 2015
New York Army National Guard Honor Guard member Spc. Taylor Kuchera plays "Taps" to honor WWII veteran Leo P. Dean during Dean's funeral at St. Mary's Cemetery in Waterford, N.Y., Dec. 17, 2015. Kuchera is from Kingston, N.Y.
Louisiana engineer company and families have their best Christmas ever
December 28, 2015
Staff Sgt. Chad Lawless, of Swartz, La., kisses his wife, Angela, and hugs his daughter, Lily, 4, and sons, Luke, 2, and Levi, 6 months. Lawless met Levi for the first time in person at the welcome-home event in Monroe, La., Dec. 24, 2015. More than 150 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 1023rd Engineer Company, 528th Engineer Battalion just completed a 10-month deployment to Kuwait, with additional missions to Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
CNGB Holiday Message to the Force
December 25, 2015
Army Gen. Frank Grass, chief, National Guard Bureau, at the Germia Hill Talks during a troop visit and operational assessment, Pristina, Kosovo, Nov. 24, 2015.
Virgin Island and Florida Civil Support Teams train in interoperability
December 24, 2015
A survey team member of the 23rd Civil Support Team tests the pH level of an unknown liquid that was collected for testing during a terrorist threat exercise, Dec. 3, 2015. The 23rd and 48th CSTs participated in Operation Guardian Spear, an inter-operability exercise that tested how both CSTs and the FBI team worked together to protect the citizens on the Virgin Islands.
Pennsylvania’s Fort Indiantown Gap No. 1 for training in 2015
December 23, 2015
Autumn colors are on display at Fort Indiantown Gap, Nov. 4, 2105. The 17,000-acre Army installation offers many great fall activities as well as some breathtaking scenery.
Oregon Air National Guard will be helping track Santa
December 21, 2015
Many National Guard and active-duty units are pitching in Christmas Eve to help track Santa Claus on his journey from the North Pole.
New York Air National Guard will help NORAD track Santa on Christmas Eve
December 21, 2015
Staff Sgt. Tom Silva and Staff Sgt. Rachael Alcorta practice Santa tracking at the Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome. EADS plays a supporting role in NORAD's annual Santa tracking.
Air National Guard security teams use virtual reality to train for active shooters
December 21, 2015
A U.S Air Force Security Forces Airman from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 108th Wing gets feedback from a U.S. Marshal instructor in a firearms training simulator at a U.S. Marshal training site in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, on Dec. 12, 2015.
50 years ago, Air National Guard brought Christmas to troops in Vietnam
December 18, 2015
A U.S. Army ground crew unloads Christmas gifts from a Georgia Air National Guard C-97. The aircraft was one of approximately 80 Air National Guard planes to participate in Operation Christmas Star.