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Texas Guard members train for Africa mission
January 17, 2012
Citizen-Soldiers from the 702 Military Police Company, Task Force Raptor (3-124 CAV), on the reflexive fire range at Camp Atterbury, Ind., on Jan. 12, 2012. The Texas National Guard members from the task force are deploying to the Horn of Africa early this year.
Michigan Guard Airman builds partnership in Liberia
January 13, 2012
Air Force Master Sgt. Leslie Blanks returned home to Michigan, Jan. 6, 2012, after a 6-month deployment to Liberia. Blanks is a member of the 127th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich. The Michigan National Guard and the Armed Forces of Liberia recently entered into a partnership program. Blanks worked as a mentor and adviser to a group of Liberian military personnel during his deployment.
Medical colleges pledge to care for troops, families
January 13, 2012
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to Soldiers and civilians gathered at Virginia Commonwealth University's Singleton Center for the Performing Arts to announce a joint initiative to enhance support for military members and veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The initiative boasts new efforts to bolster education, pursue groundbreaking research and share information and best practices among various colleges and universities.
National Guard part of team standardizing Army disability evaluations
January 13, 2012
Army Brig. Gen. Brian C. Lein, the command surgeon for U.S. Army Forces Command, gives guidance at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan., 12, 2012, to a team charged with establishing an Army-wide standardized disability evaluation process. The result of the team's efforts will improve the Army's portion of the Department of Defense's Integrated Disability Evaluation System, through which it is determined whether or not service members are fit for continued service.
New York Air National Guard evacuates burned fishermen to New Zealand
January 13, 2012
A New York Air National Guard LC-130 assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing takes off in Antarctica.
Panetta: King renewed promise of America's dream
January 13, 2012
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta
Silver Star recipient's memorabilia given to Florida Guard armory
January 13, 2012
Florida Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Carlton Cooley accepts the Silver Star medal of Staff Sgt. Robert Evans from Evans' neices Deborah Lynne Evans Watts (center) and Beverly Evans Srock, at the National Guard Armory in Sanford, Fla., Jan. 10, 2012. Evans, a medic serving with the 124th Infantry Regiment's Medical Detachment, was awarded a posthumous Silver Star after he died in action in the Philippines in 1945. The armory, which was later named after Evans, is now home to B Company, 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment. In this photo, Srock is holding a black-and-white photo of Evans' brother Earl receiving the Silver Star for his late brother
Trainee controllers gain skills at Selfridge Air Guard base
January 13, 2012
Airman 1st Class Leah Ned, a member of the Louisiana Air National Guard, points to a mark that represents the location of an aircraft on a simulated radar control screen at the Air Traffic Control Tower at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., Jan. 8, 2012. Selfridge is one of several locations in the Air National Guard where air traffic control trainees receive the hands-on portion of their training to become certified as controllers by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Air Guard's 174th Fighter Wing writing the book on Air Force MQ-9 maintenance
January 13, 2012
Members of the 174th Fighter Wing maintenance group prepare a MQ-9 Reaper for its initial taxi at Wheeler-Sack Army Air Field at Fort Drum, N.Y., on June 30, 2011. The pre-taxi activity took place in temporary hanger space provided by the Army's 10th Mountain Division. This milestone represented the unit's first step toward flying the MQ-9 from its detachment at Fort Drum. The wing is based at Hancock Field in Syracuse, N.Y.
Community helps Missouri Guard family
January 11, 2012
Army Spc. Shane Whitacre, 2175th Military Police Company, with his family at the unit's holiday party. The party fell just before Whitacre was scheduled for shoulder surgery.
Kuwait: Deployment reunites Oklahoma Guard cousins after a decade apart
January 11, 2012
Army Sgt. Christina Christensen waits with another Soldier as their convoy escort team prepares to leave Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on Nov. 24, 2011, for Iraq.
Minnesota Guard members train while they wait
January 11, 2012
A Soldier in the Mankato, Minn., -based 2nd Battalion, 135th Infantry Regiment, reviews his kneeling firing position with two members of the Headquarters Company's sniper section on Jan. 5, 2012. Units in the battalion qualified with their individual weapons.
Missouri Guard course focuses on creating well-rounded, physically fit Soldiers
January 11, 2012
Missouri Army National Guard 1st Lt. Adam Von Allmen, center, conducts a high-kick drill as part of the 140th Regiment Missouri Regional Training Institute's Unit Fitness Coordinator Course at Fort Leonard Wood on Dec. 14, 2011.
Wisconsin's first Armed Forces Reserve Center opens
January 11, 2012
Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, with Wisconsin military leadership, cuts the ribbon at the Armed Forces Reserve Center's opening ceremony on Madison's east side on Jan. 7, 2012. The AFRC will house approximately 800 service members from the Wisconsin Army and Air National Guard, as well as the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Reserves.
41 years: Florida Air Guard's last Vietnam veteran retires
January 11, 2012
lorida Air National Guard Command Chief Master Sgt. Charles Wisniewski salutes during his retirement ceremony at the Florida National Guard Headquarters in St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 6, 2012. Wisniewski, the last member of the Florida Air National Guard to have served in the Vietnam conflict, had more than 40 years of military service during his career.
Liberia: Michigan Guard deploys in support of Operation Observant Liberty
January 10, 2012
Flag of Liberia
Army Guard, Arizona State University sign historic sustainability initiative
January 10, 2012
Russ Knocke, director of marketing and communications for Arizona State University, speaks with an Army National Guard member Jan. 6, 2012, at the Army National Guard Readiness Center in Arlington, Va.
Kuwait: Maryland Guard members get new mission
January 10, 2012
29th Combat Aviation Brigade patch.
McKinley: Guard and Reserves well-positioned for new defense strategy
January 10, 2012
Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau, speaks to members of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 9, 2012, at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Jacksonville. McKinley spoke at the group's weekly meeting about the role of the National Guard and Reserve.
Missouri Guard's attack battalion transitions to Longbow Apache
January 10, 2012
Army Maj. Gen. Stephen L. Danner, adjutant general of the Missouri National Guard, receives an Apache model from David Koopersmith, vice president of Boeing's Attack Helicopter Program, on Jan. 8, 2012.