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Michigan Airman joins Air National Guard to say 'Thank You' to America
February 26, 2014
Airman 1st Class Elvira Shani serves an Airman during lunch at the Dining Facility at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., Feb. 8, 2014. Shani, a native of Albania, joined the Michigan Air National Guard on the day before her 40th birthday.
Alaska Black Hawk crews interrupt training to assist stranded snow machine rider
February 26, 2014
A pair of Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters taxi after pilots land at the Alaska Army National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility in Nome April 17, 2012. Similar craft assisted a stranded snow machine rider Saturday.
'GI Josh' toy dog engages children of deploying Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers
February 25, 2014
Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch spends some time with 11-year-old Hannah Hendrickson of Prescott, Wis., and her 2-year-old brother Aaron after a formal sendoff ceremony Feb. 22 at Camp Williams, Wis. The children of more than 60 32nd Infantry Brogade Combat Team Soldiers received plush toy dogs called G.I. Josh, and Kleefisch encouraged the children to send in photos of themselves with the toy dogs while their loved ones are deployed to the Middle East.
Texas National Guard aviators train with civilian counterparts
February 24, 2014
Sgt. Kevin McLaughlin, 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, lowers a member of Texas Task Force-1 into a tree line as part of a combined training event between the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade and Texas Task Force-1. The units trained on search and extraction techniques used during hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Missouri Guard member serves in Afghanistan with her son
February 21, 2014
Staff Sgt. Denise Leo, an administrative noncommissioned officer with the Missouri National Guard’s 1438th Multi-Role Bridge Company, with her son, Spc. Ryan Dryer, a mechanic with the same unit. Both volunteered for the deployment and have been serving in Afghanistan for about six months, supporting their unit's mission of maintaining bridges in Afghanistan.
California National Guard Soldiers awarded medals for valor in Afghanistan
February 21, 2014
U.S. Army Capt. Robert Bejarano, commander of the 216th Mobility Augmentation Company, 365 th Engineer Battalion, awards Cpl. Christopher Garland the Army Commendation Medal with "V" Device, for valor, and a Combat Medic Badge, at Forward Operating Base Ghazni.
Virginia Air Guard F-22 pilot soars past 1,000 hours
February 20, 2014
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schaner, Virginia Air National Guard 192nd Fighter Wing F-22 Raptor pilot, reviews aircraft forms with U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jaymes Baum, 94th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, before a mission at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Jan. 28, 2014.
Nearly 250 Soldiers on winter storm duty in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin
February 20, 2014
Two Humvees depart the Wisconsin Army National Guard's Oak Creek armory Feb. 1, 2011, in response to a call for assistance during severe winter storm. Wisconsin Guard members are preparing for another storm now.
In a first, Maryland's 231st Chemical Company joins with Air Guard in HAZMAT training
February 19, 2014
The Maryland National Guard’s 231st Chemical Company and 175th Civil Engineering Fire and Emergency Services Flight conducted joint HAZMAT training at Warfield Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Md., on Feb. 8-9, 2014.
Illinois Air Guard doctor deployed to Antarctica takes on helicopter crash
February 19, 2014
U.S. Air Force Col. Steven S. Norris, 182nd Medical Group commander, stands at the South Pole during his deployment to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Nov. 21, 2013.
National Guard skeleton coach Tuffy Latour is ‘a rock,’ Olympics athlete says
February 18, 2014
Team USA skeleton coach Vermont Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Tuffy Latour, with the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, leads Noelle Pikus-Pace to an Olympic silver medal and Katie Uhlaender to a fourth-place finish in women's skeleton Friday night at Sanki Sliding Centre in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.
About 2,850 National Guard members providing assistance as deadly storm moves northeast
February 14, 2014
Staff Sgt. Timothy Bellinger, of Cumming, Ga. drove an 83-year-old woman home from a hospital when the storm rendered roads impassable to car traffic.
Washington National Guard engineers build school and relationships in Thailand
February 14, 2014
Members of the Royal Thai Army, members of the Malaysian, Indonesian Armed Forces, and U.S. Army and Air Force pose in front of the site of a new schoolhouse Feb. 7, 2014, at the Ban Sa la Kai Fub School in Sukothai province, Kingdom of Thailand. Soldiers with the 176th Engineer Company, Washington Army National Guard, supported the construction of the multipurpose building here as part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014.
New York’s 109th Airlift Wing ends Antarctic season with mission to move more than 1,100 people
February 14, 2014
An LC-130 Skibird from the New York Air National Guard is jacked up on the frozen ice shelf of Pegasus Field Jan. 16, 2014, after aircrew discovered a landing gear issue. The maintenance crews of the 109th Airlift Wing do not have hangars to work out of while deployed to Antarctica for Operation DEEP FREEZE and must work in the elements and handle unique challenges nearly every day.
Military training helps Soldier-athletes conquer luge challenges
February 14, 2014
Sgt. Matt Mortensen, left, of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program listens to WCAP teammate Sgt. Preston Griffall during a Team USA luge doubles press conference Feb. 10 at Gorki Media Center in Esto-Sadok, Russia.
Soldiers and Airmen in nine states helping as storm pummels South and middle-Atlantic
February 13, 2014
South Carolina National Guard members support the state Department of Public Safety along I-26 looking for stranded motorists on Feb. 12, 2014, in the wake of Winter Storm Pax, as the Weather Channel calls the storm.
National Guard units begin responding to ice storm in the Southeast
February 12, 2014
South Carolina National Guard wrecker crew assists state public safety officials during ice storm on Feb. 12, 2014.
First lady: 100 companies to hire 100,000 vets over five years
February 12, 2014
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Air Guard remains experienced, ready force, its leader says
February 11, 2014
Air Force Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke III, director of the Air National Guard, addresses attendees at the Air Force Civic Leader Program Annual Conference at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Feb. 6, 2014. During the conference, Clarke spoke on the history, mission, command structure and organization of the Air National Guard and how it fills both its state and federal mission.
Guard Soldiers from Maryland and Virginia travel to Germany to help train next Kosovo forces
February 10, 2014
Left to right, Maj. Chuck Reinhold, Lt. Col. David Jones, Brig. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen, Col. William Coffin and Col. Brent Johnson (standing) conduct a briefing Jan. 23, 2014, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.