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'Red Bulls' have helping hand in building of all-girls school in Afghanistan
May 6, 2011
Abdul Rahman Kabiri (left), Panjshir Province deputy governor, Air Force Lt. Col. Joseph Blevins (center), commander of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team, a part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls, and Abdul Mohammad, the Panjshir director of education, cut the ribbon across the entrance of the Baba Ali Girls School in Dara District, Afghanistan May 1, 2011. The PRT contracted the local Raz Tanha Construction Company to build the school in a remote district of Panjshir.
Aftermath: Alabama Guard still heavily engaged in tornado response
May 6, 2011
Spc. Robert Boettner, a Soldier form the 31st Chemical Brigade, carries a child's bike from the rubble in the Crescent Ridge area in Tuscaloosa, Ala. April 30, 2011. Many families lost everything during the tornado and little discoveries like this bike that still works helps them to hold on to hope.
May 6 is Military Spouse Appreciation Day
May 5, 2011
Staff Sgt. Carl Lere, South Dakota National Guard, holds his five-day-old daughter, Summer, as his wife, Sara, looks on at the activation ceremony for South Dakota Army National Guard's 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade May 8, 2010, at the Elmen Center, Augustana College campus in Sioux Falls.
Guard, active Soldiers help boy get wish and become honorary Soldier
May 5, 2011
Staff Sgt. Kerry Whitaker, chief of the M270A1 launcher from 2-18 FAR, helps Honorary Soldier Erick Morales into an M270A1 Launcher to do his ride and process a simulated fire mission. Whitney Marsh, the respite care provider for Erik, contacted the National Guard to help make Erik's wish of being a Soldier come true.
Air Guard Critical-Care Air Transport Team brings wounded closer to home
May 4, 2011
Air Force Col. (Dr.) Charles Chappuis, a surgeon on a three-member Air National Guard critical-care air transport team, talks with Spc. Adam Castagna, one of three critical patients under his care during a C-17 Globemaster III flight from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, to Joint Base Andrews, Md., as Castagna's brother, Mike Castagna, looks on, April 29, 2011.
Alaska Guard unit plays major role in rescue of 'fallen angel'
May 4, 2011
Maj. Jesse Peterson and Tech. Sgt. Shane Hargis, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Guardian Angel team members, practice a hoist mission, April 22, 2011, the day before they were called upon to recover the pilots of a downed Army helicopter.
Arkansas Guard rescues boy scouts stranded by flood waters
May 4, 2011
Members of a Boy Scout group from Louisiana who were stranded by floodwaters in a remote section of the Ouachita National Forest in southwest Arkansas enjoy the view from an Arkansas National Guard helicopter that rescued them early Tuesday, May 3, 2011. The six Scouts and two adult leaders had been stranded without communications since Sunday.
Dale Jr. optimistic going into weekend, rest of season as he represents National Guard
May 4, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr. driver of the No. 88 National Guard NASCAR racecar, checks his gauges moments before the race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., April 30, 2011. Jr. looked promising the day before during practice, but started the race in the 24th position and would struggle all night to cross the finish line in 19th.
Guard operates in several states as relief efforts continue
May 4, 2011
A team of Illinois Army National Guard Soldiers, with the 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment are taken by a Sheriff Department's boat to the water and sewer treatment facility in Murphysboro, Ill. April 30, 2011.
Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers rescue woman in dramatic flood video
May 4, 2011
Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers Spc. Junior Bombard, of Ozark and Sgt. Tim Bridges, both of the 1138th Military Police Company, located in West Plains and Springfield, earned the title Citizen-Heroes after being caught on videotape while completing a daring rescue of a 93-year-old woman on the swollen Black River.
Mrs. Mullen spotlights family issues in new blog
May 3, 2011
Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his wife, Deborah, speak with Fort Bliss enlisted spouses in El Paso, Texas, March 10, 2011. Deborah Mullen is launching a new blog to pass on information and resources to military spouses around the world.
Mongolians' visit to Alaska continues success of State Partnership Program
May 3, 2011
Mongolian Col. Davaadorj Rendoo, Mongolian armed forces general staff, observes U.S. military medical professionals perform veterinary services on a dog in Northway, Alaska. During Operation Arctic Care, medical teams deploy to remote areas of Alaska to treat general health patients, in addition to providing dental care, eye exams and veterinary care.
U.S. service members, FARDC make final push to exercise finale
May 3, 2011
Air Force Maj. Michelle Mulberry, an aeromedical evacuation flight nurse and instructor with the Wyoming Air National Guard's 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, conducts training to members of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s armed forces quick response force, about C-130 Hercules familiarization during MEDLITE 11, May 2, 2011.
Utah Guard units, local Iraqi police conduct joint humanitarian mission
May 3, 2011
On April 4 members of A Company and Headquarters Company, 141st MI Bn., coordinating with C Battery, 2-11th Field Artillery stationed at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, conducted a humanitarian mission with the local Shehabi Iraqi Police Department.
Florida Guard unit supports force protection at Bagram
May 2, 2011
Spc. Joseph Deramo, left, and Spc. Xavier Flores, right, look on as Army Pfc. Audrey Triplett monitors input from one of three 107-foot Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment towers and eight other sites the 164th Air Defense Artillery operates to provide force protection at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, and for troops operating outside the wire.
‘Business as usual’ not so usual for Missouri National Guard
May 2, 2011
Army Col. Wendul Hagler, task force commander of Operation Rising Tide and commander of the 70th Troop Command, Jefferson Barracks, assesses flood conditions in southeast Missouri on April 27, 2011
ROUND-UP: Significant week in Defense Department news
April 30, 2011
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Panetta would bring decades of service to Pentagon
April 30, 2011
Department of Defense Seal
Texas Guard's Afghan ties growing roots
April 30, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. Darren Owens, special assistant to the director, Army National Guard, helps plant a tree symbolizing cooperation between Afghan government officials and National Guard Agricultural Development Teams during a ceremony at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C
Congolese teach important skills in disease prevention to U.S. service members during MEDLITE 11
April 29, 2011
KINSHASA, Democratic Repulic of Congo -- Congolese Col. Omer Djembe Kitenge, Coordinator of the fight against malaria for the DRC military, answers questions from U.S. military members during a Congolesian lead training at the Centre Superior Militiare Academy here today as part of MEDLITE 11. MEDLITE 11 is a joint medical exercise focused on aeromedical evacuation, to improve the readiness of U.S. Air Force and DRC personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Todd Wivell)