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Defense Department plans travel card switchover Nov. 30
December 1, 2008
Distinguished Service Cross recipient chooses a third Iraq deployment
December 1, 2008
Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Nein, 39, with the Kentucky National Guard's 223rd Military Police Company, at Camp Taji, Iraq on Oct. 18, 2008. Nein was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions as a squad leader with the 617th Military Police Company during an ambush on March 20, 2005, during his second deployment. He is now serving on his third deployment. "I probably didn't have to be here this time, but I don't think that I would have missed it," Nein said. "We're helping transform the Iraqi police to be a more relevant force and a professional force."
Soldiers Improve Life for Citizens in Baghdad District
December 1, 2008
Soldiers Improve Life for Citizens in Baghdad District
Vermont Soldier completes long tour as Afghan mentor
December 1, 2008
A team photo with Master Sgt. Lesley Urban of the Vermont Army National Guard.
Guard families eligible for child care subsidy
December 1, 2008
South Dakota STARBASE graduates its 200th class
November 26, 2008
A fourth grader from Vanderberg Elementary prepares his rocket for flight on Oct. 28, 2008, at Camp Rapid during the 200th class of STARBASE. Funded by the Department of Defense, the STARBASE goal is to raise interest and improve students' knowledge and skills by exposing them to a technological environment and positive role models found on military bases. The students attend one, five-hour class each week for five weeks studying subjects like Newton's laws of motion, the four forces of flight and the physics describing lift on an aircraft's wing known as Bernoulli's Principle.
PFI helping Guardmembers find active duty tours
November 25, 2008
'Guard farmers' join counterinsurgency fight in Afghanistan
November 25, 2008
Thanksgiving Day Message 2008
November 25, 2008
Maryland Guard takes part in U.S. Africa Command exercise
November 25, 2008
Maryland National Guard Staff Sgt. Deshanna Taylor, a medic with the state medical detachment, works on an infected foot during Flintlock 09, a 14-nation training exercise in support of the new U.S. African Command, which concluded on Nov. 20. For the first time, 18 Maryland National Guard doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and other medical professionals from the National Guard deployed to Africa to help local Senegalese citizens get some desperately needed medical care.
Blum's time as chief ends with medal from SecDef, praise for others
November 25, 2008
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates presents an award to outgoing Chief of the National Guard Bureau LTG H Steven Blum during a transition ceremony at the Pentagon, Nov. 17, 2008.
Defense Department Prepares to Implement Reserve Changes
November 25, 2008
ANG forecasters ensure mission efficiency
November 24, 2008
Staff Sgt. Kevin Fedon, weather forecaster from the Nebraska Air National Guard, checks weather readouts (temperature, wind speed/direction and precipitation) at a remote weather sensor at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia Nov. 4, 2008. The weather readings are put into a weather model to help predict weather patterns and are used for daily reports to aircrews preparing for missions.
National Guard makes connections at Fort Polk
November 24, 2008
Now that six yards of concrete is in the form, National Guardsmen work together to spread and level it.
Soldiers train for upcoming mission at Purdue University
November 24, 2008
Purdue University agronomy professor George Van Scoyoc explains the difference between forest and prairie soils to Soldiers of the Indiana National Guard's 1-19th Agribusiness Development Team at the Beck Agricultural Center in West Lafayette, Ind., on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. The Citizen-Soldiers will use this training and their civilian acquired skills to help Afghanistan farmers when the team deploys in 2009.
Tennessee ANG graduates first class of Polish pilots
November 24, 2008
Ten students from the republic of Poland recently graduated from the first C-130 flying training class conducted by the Tennessee Air National Guard's 118th Airlift Wing in Nashville.
Thousands of Air Guard deployers to be honored through 'Salute Campaign'
November 24, 2008
Chief Master Sgt. Christopher Muncy, command chief of the Ohio Air National Guard, holds up a Hometown Heroes Salute award that in 2009 will be given to eligible National Guard Airmen who deployed on orders for more than 30 consecutive days in a contingency operation. Muncy and Chief Master Sgt. Richard Smith, command chief of the Air Guard, announced the Hometown Heroes Salute program Nov. 20 at the Air Guard Senior Leadership conference outside Washington.
Grief expert offers advice on dealing with traumatic loss
November 24, 2008
Bands spread Air Force message through music
November 20, 2008
Reserve Affairs chief explains new DoD directive to ANG leaders
November 20, 2008
Thomas F. Hall, assistant secretary of defense for Reserve Affairs, speaks about the transition of the Guard and Reserve from a strategic reserve to an operational reserve at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference in Lansdowne, Va., Nov. 19, outside of Washington.