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Chief: National Guard State Partnership Program can help keep a broken promise
May 14, 2007
LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, pauses at a plaque honoring one of the two National Guard divisions that liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany in April 1945. The general visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site in Germany on May 6, 2007, en route to conferences of the National Guard's State Partnership Program (SPP) being held in Germany and in the Balkans. "It helps me remember why we do what we do and why it's important," he said. "The Guard has throughout its entire history been responsible for saving lives and preventing suffering and returning abnormal conditions to normal. We do it at home and we do it all around the world. We've done it for over 367 years, and we continue to do it today, and we'll do it as long as there's a United States of America." The SPP, which fosters cooperation via military, socio-political and economic conduits at local, state and national levels through 56 partnerships between states or territories and foreign countries, can help prevent more tragedies, he said.
Vigilant Guard: Voices of experience add to the training
May 14, 2007
Mothers wore combat boots and gas masks on their special day
May 14, 2007
Illinois Army National Guard Sgt. Celia Rodriguez was a mom wearing a protective mask on Mother's Day while taking part in the National Guard's training exercise Vigilant Guard. She was conducting decontamination operations at the Indiana National Guard's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center.
Members of Air Guard medical groups unite for Vigilant Guard
May 14, 2007
Air National Guard medical technicians from the Illinois National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) evaluate a role-playing victim of a collapsed building for injuries in mid-May as part of the National Guard training exercise Vigilant Guard in Indiana.
Hands that held weapons now hold hope
May 12, 2007
National Guard cleaning up Greensburg
May 10, 2007
Members of the 134th Air Control Squadron, Kansas Air National Guard, operate heavy equipment near the courthouse of Greensburg, Kan., May 8, 2007. The Airmen worked to free a forklift that had been stuck in the mud. The building was one of the few left standing after a massive tornado decimated the town May 4. Approximately 400 National Guardmembers have been called up to assist with the cleanup, provide security and perform other disaster response functions.
Guard Responding to Domestic Crises Nationwide
May 10, 2007
Greensburg Tornado Changes Life of Kansas Guard Soldier
May 10, 2007
Laura and Rodney Prosser with their daughter Heidi, 11, and son Keith, 13, sit in front of what remains of their Greensburg, Kan., home after it was destroyed by a category F5E tornado, May 4, 2007.
From citizen to disaster relief workers, National Guard members transform quickly to help town of Greensburg
May 10, 2007
Indiana's vigilant medical crew provides care for the caregivers
May 10, 2007
An aeromedical air crew member from the 121st Medical Company, District of Columbia Army National Guard, prepares a UH-1H helicopter at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Butlerville, Ind., to provide medical support for the National Guard training exercise Vigilant Guard.
Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers help flooded areas
May 9, 2007
Northern Edge Combined Training Exercise
May 9, 2007
National Guard Responds to Kansas Tornado
May 7, 2007
Guard Responds to Tornado Disaster
May 7, 2007
You Can Sleep Uninterrupted...
May 7, 2007
Tommy Hill: Enduring role model for all Guard members
May 4, 2007
Oregon National Guard Members Begin Return Home
May 4, 2007
South Dakota National Guard trains on life-saving skills during humanitarian exercise
April 30, 2007
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Claude Weidow, left, administers intravenous fluids to South Dakota Army National Guard Spc. Jared Haak, Huron, with the help of Army Sgt. Doug Magee (center), Springfield, and Spc. Jesse Clay, Huron, during a medical evacuation exercise at the school construction site in La Calera, Nicaragua, during New Horizons-Nicaragua 2007, April 6, 2007. The exercise is a $7.25 million joint U.S. and Nicaraguan military humanitarian and training exercise, providing a new school, a medical clinic with free health and veterinary care, and giving aid and strengthening bonds between the two nations. Weidow is a combat medic for the 99th Expeditionary Medical Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and Haak, Magee and Clay are from the 153rd Engineering Battalion, South Dakota Army National Guard, deployed with the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo by ) (Released)
Exercise Tests Hurricane-Response Plans in Northeastern U.S.
April 30, 2007
Remembering the Holocaust with a new generation
April 27, 2007
Holocaust survivor Jane Lipski tells her personal story to middle school students during "The Holocaust Remembrance Days" event held at the 162nd Fighter Wing in Tucson, AZ.