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Alaska Guardmembers deploy in support of Mongolian Expeditionary Forces
March 23, 2011
Alaska Army National Guard Master Sgt. Eric Schlemme and Mongolian Armed Forces Senior Sergeant Battulga Baatar discuss tactics and techniques used by the Mongolian Expeditionary Force executing a traffic control point training lane at Five Hills Training Area in Mongolia during Khaan Quest 2009. Schlemme also deployed with the MEF to Afghanistan as an embedded U.S. liaison.
Nation’s busiest air sovereignty alert unit, D.C. Guard’s 113th Wing, earns award
March 23, 2011
The 113th Fighter Squad, District of Columbia Air National Guard aircraft number 509 proudly shows off the unit's latest tail flash. (U.S Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Gareth Buckland/Released)
National Guard recognizes Border Patrol chief
March 23, 2011
Border Patrol agents observe Arizona National Guard Soldiers training for Operation Copper Cactus at an undisclosed location in Arizona on Aug. 25, 2010. Operation Copper Condor is the Arizona National Guard's contribution to the up to 1,200 National Guard troops being deployed to support the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the four Southwest border states.
Now it’s 63: National Guard State Partnership Program pairs Iowa, Kosovo
March 23, 2011
Army 1st Lt. Aaron Rosheim, a helicopter pilot with the Iowa National Guard's C Company, 2-147th Aviation Battalion, explains an essay assignment to a group of students at the Youth Center in Ferizaj/Urosevac, Kosovo, Aug. 3, 2010. Rosheim wass among a group of MNBG-E Soldiers, who visited the youth center twice a week to prepare a group of students to take an English language test. Rosheim was deployed as a part of MNBG-E in support of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
Website links unemployed vets, spouses to jobs
March 23, 2011
A user-friendly Web portal makes it easier for veterans - including Reserve component members, their families and wounded warriors - to land jobs with civilian employers who value their military experience.
New York National Guard enlists second Olympic bobsledder
March 22, 2011
Staff Sgt. James Bills enlists Bobsledder Nick Cunningham.
Something worth fighting for
March 22, 2011
Ahmed plays soccer with Air Force nurse 1st Lt. Stephanie Allen outside the Joint Base Balad U.S. Air Force Hospital.
Guard posture statement focuses on maintaining operational force, quality of life
March 22, 2011
National Guard Bureau Seal
National Guard increases Japan relief operations
March 22, 2011
A C-17 Globemaster III from the Mississippi Air National Guard is being directed to park at Orlando Sanford International Airport, Jan. 21, 2010. The C-17 was carrying over 50 evacuees from Haiti.
Kentucky Guard ADT witnesses formation of first Afghan soybean farmers association
March 22, 2011
Army Col. Hunter Mathews, Kentucky National Guard Agribusiness Development Team commander, speaks to Afghan soybean farmers about their farms during the inauguration ceremony for the Afghan Soybean Farmers Association at the Kapisa Governor’s compound March 17, 2011. The Kentucky ADT purchased seed and fertilizer for the farmers earlier this year. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. James Wilton) (Released)
Air National Guard supports coalition operations over Libya
March 22, 2011
An Ohio Air National Guard KC-135 refueler, from the 121st Air Refueling Wing, refuels an F-117 Stealth Fighter, March 12, 2008.
Minnesota dominates National Guard Combatives Tournament
March 22, 2011
Welterweight Army Capt. Bernard Williamson of Minnesota, left, listens to advice from his coach between rounds March 20, 2011, at the 2011 Army National Guard Combatives Tournament. (Photo by Alexandra Hemmerly-Brown) (Released)
National Guard unit makes quick switch from exercise to real world relief
March 22, 2011
Air Force Master Sgt. Randall Dechant, deployment and distribution flight superintendant with the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron, works with members of the 15 Brigade, Japan Ground Self Defense Force to load and prepare supplies on trucks headed to mainland Japan, March 16, 2011. Teams from the 15 Brigade, JGSDF are heading to northern Japan to aid earthquake and tsunami victims with trucks loaded with supplies including clothes, blankets and toiletries.
Resiliency a theme at North Dakota Guard family event
March 18, 2011
Jessica Clark-Woinarowicz, North Dakota National Guard state youth coordinator, holds the microphone for Guard children to ask Army Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk, North Dakota adjutant general, some impromptu questions at the Adjutant General's Symposium for Families in Bismarck, N.D., March 5.
Iowa Guardsman keeps professional fighting dream alive while deployed
March 18, 2011
Army Pfc. Scott Suhr, an Iowa Army National Guardsman with Company B, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, works on his punches with help from Army Pfc. Richard Reichardt, left, infantryman with Company B, at Forward Operating Base Torkham Gate's gym March 10, 2011. Suhr, who fought for the welterweight title in the Mainstream Mixed Martial Arts circuit in Iowa, is not losing sight of his professional fighting aspirations during his year-long deployment to Afghanistan.
Iowa Guard forward repair station keeps Soldiers rolling
March 18, 2011
Iowa Army National Guard Spc. Chad Vieth, a metal worker with Company B, 334th Brigade Support Battalion, Task Force Archer, a part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls, grinds metal at Company B's forward repair station on Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, March 11, 2011.
National Guard supports Japan earthquake relief
March 18, 2011
Airmen from the 89th Aerial Port Squadron load pallets onto a C-17 Globemaster III, March 12, 2011, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Air transportation Airmen from the 89th Aerial Port Squadron at Joint Base Andrews created 14 pallets of technical search and rescue gear, to include inflatable swift-water rescue boats, generators, trench rescue and cutting equipment. The gear was being transported by C-17 to more than 80 Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue technicians to provide assistance in the rescue effort after an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11.
National Guard's State Partnership Program hosts Armenian police in Kansas
March 18, 2011
Flag of the Republic of Armenia.
Kentucky Guard unit works to make Afghan agriculture cream of the crop
March 18, 2011
A Kentucky National Guard ADT 2 member fits a .50-caliber machine gun to a vehicle. The Kentucky Agriculture Development Team met with director of agriculture, irrigation and livestock, Abdul Farzam, on March 5 at the Korean Provincial Reconstruction Team's Camp to discuss how to develop the Parwan province's farming and agriculture over the next 12 months.
Last American World War I veteran served briefly in National Guard
March 18, 2011
Frank Buckles in World War I.