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State legislators visit Wyoming Guardsmen in North Africa
May 14, 2010
Wyoming state Rep. Lori Millin, back center, watches Tunisian medical technicians demonstrate capabilities during the MEDLITE-10 exercise in Tunisia. Service members from several states visited the north African country while participating in the MEDLITE-10 exercise at Kharrouba Air Base, Bizerte, Tunisia.
Case Study: Arkansas aims efforts at building resiliency
May 14, 2010
Resiliency is one key to preventing suicide, said Army Capt. Tanya Phillips, suicide prevention program manager for the Arkansas National Guard, seen here after leading training at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in Little Rock, Ark., on April 17, 2010. "The resilience is not learned as it might have been in past generations," Phillips said.
New York Air Guard moves radars to Ohio
May 14, 2010
McKinley: FY 2011 budget meets Guard’s needs
May 14, 2010
Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau, responds to a question from Sen. Jim Webb while testifying before the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on personnel in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2010. The committee members were seeking information on budget issues facing the Reserve components.
Guard part of solution to DoD budget woes, chief says
May 14, 2010
Commentary: Suicide Prevention in the Air Force and Air National Guard
May 14, 2010
First Lady calls on nation to support military families
May 13, 2010
First Lady announces military family review
May 13, 2010
Alaska Guardsmen arrive in Vietnam for Pacific Angel
May 13, 2010
Cargo is off-loaded from a C-130 Hercules from the Alaska Air National Guard's 144th Airlift Squadron shortly after they arrived at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 8, 2010. Thirty-nine military personnel from bases around the Pacific and continental U.S. are participating in Operation Pacific Angel 10-2 in the Can Tho area May 10-17. Pacific Angel is a humanitarian and civic assistance program conducted in the Pacific area of responsibility to support U.S. Pacific Command's capacity-building efforts. This is the second time the operation has been held in Vietnam.
"He fell through the cracks"
May 13, 2010
Army Spc. Josh Farmer of the Arkansas National Guard on his last family vacation in Branson, Mo., on July 3, 2009. Farmer killed himself on Sept. 20, 2009. Farmer's death resulted in a stronger focus on helping servicemembers in need.
Indiana Guardsmen beat the blues with extreme sports
May 13, 2010
Sgt. Nicholas Adams, the non-commissioned officer in charge of Outdoor Recreation at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in Indiana speeds around a corner in the third lap during a pure stock race at Brownstown Speedway May 8, 2010.
About the series: Resiliency
May 13, 2010
Army Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill, National Guard Bureau military photojournalist, at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 29, 2009.
Joint Task Force Haiti prepares for 'New Horizon'
May 13, 2010
A Message from the Senior Enlisted Leader, National Guard Bureau
May 13, 2010
Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Denise Jelinski-Hall, the senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, is seen at the 2009 Joint Senior Leadership Conference at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on Nov. 19, 2009. The third senior enlisted advisor to the CNGB, Jelinksi-Hall is the first Air Guardmember and the first woman to fill the role.
"I've got a lot of reasons to live"
May 13, 2010
Two fellow Soldiers saved the life of full-time Arkansas Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class James Powell, seen here outside a readiness center in Hot Springs, Ark., on April 15, 2010, when they went to his home, found him hanging from the ceiling and cut him down. Intervention at the first signs of trouble and having experts who are available to listen are crucial to helping troubled Soldiers before they ever reach that point, Powell said. "Somebody who's borderline suicidal, the last thing they need to do is be talking to answering machines all day," he said. "All that does is push you over."
Louisiana Guard supports shoreline protection mission
May 13, 2010
Aviation Command work to fill breaches with 3,000 to 5,000-pound sandbags in Lafourche Parish in an effort to keep oil tainted water from moving to closer to the coast of Louisiana May 11, 2010. These Guardsmen were activated in support of operations related to the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
“It takes the strength and courage of a warrior to ask for help”
May 13, 2010
Army Maj. Gen. William Wofford, the adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard, and Army Capt. Tanya Phillips, the state's suicide prevention program manager, discuss a Soldier's case before visiting with him at the Central Arkansas Veterans Heathcare System's Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center on April 17, 2010. "It takes the strength and courage of a warrior to ask for help," Wofford said. The Arkansas National Guard has aggressively pursued innovative ways to help troubled Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen since leaders first noticed increased warning signs about two years ago.
Air Force officials announce FY 2011 force structure alignments
May 12, 2010
DoD official urges reserve component funding, predictability
May 12, 2010
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Guard teams finish in top 15 of Best Ranger event
May 12, 2010
Capt. Robert May (left) and 1st Sgt. Kevin Dylus cross the finish line at the end of the grueling Best Ranger competition at Fort Benning, Ga., May 9, 2010. May and Dylus were one of 25 teams that finished the competition out of 40 that began. The two Soldiers represented the North Carolina Army National Guard.