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Texas Guard team wins first NGB innovation competition
June 17, 2020
Finalists and panel judges are projected on a screen during the first National Guard Innovation Competition as Charles Crosby, right, a senior analyst with the National Guard Bureau’s Force, Structure and Assessment Directorate, serves as the emcee for the event at the Herbert R. Temple Jr. Army National Guard Readiness Center, Arlington Hall Station, June 12, 2020. A Texas National Guard innovation team won the competition’s top honor for helping develop advanced 3D printer technology.
Service members, civilians bound by DOD election rules
June 17, 2020
A Sailor registers for the 2012 presidential election and submits an absentee ballot request to the command’s voting representative aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while at sea in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 4, 2012.
NY Guard aviators team with Rangers on water bucket training
June 17, 2020
New York Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crews conduct water bucket training in Riverhead, New York, June 12, 2020. The New York Army National Guard conducts helicopter firefighting when local agencies request support through the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.
Washington Guard trains for wildfire season amid COVID-19
June 17, 2020
Washington National Guard Pfc. Daria Aleshina digs a fire line during wildfire training on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., June 13, 2020.
Pandemic won't slow Soldier training for overseas deployment
June 17, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 466th Medical Company, Area Support, lift a simulated patient during a mass casualty exercise at pre-mobilization training at Camp Smith Training Site in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. The company is deploying to the area of Central Command this summer.
Michigan Guard engineers balance COVID-19 risk, readiness
June 16, 2020
The Michigan National Guard’s 1432nd Engineer Company and the Department of National Resources have been upgrading infrastructure at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Ontonagon County.
Nevada Guard helps fight COVID-19 in historic response
June 16, 2020
Nevada National Guard Spc. Keith Davis with Task Force Med processes a test sample at the rural community based collection site, Friday, June 12, 2020 in Ely, Nevada. More than 900 Nevada Guard Soldiers and Airmen are on active duty.
Cal Guard celebrates milestone with 6-ship formation flight
June 15, 2020
Five of six California Air National Guard C-130J Super Hercules aircraft fly in tight formation over the Pacific Ocean May 27, 2020. California Air National Guard maintainers from the 146th Maintenance Group and aircrew from the 115th Airlift Squadron collaborated to accomplish the launch.
North Carolina National Guard prepares for hurricanes
June 15, 2020
In this Sept. 8, 2019, photo, North Carolina National Guard Soldiers conduct recovery and logistics operations on Ocracoke Island in support of Hurricane Dorian. More than 500 Guard members and 183 vehicles were deployed to help in eastern North Carolina.
Kentucky National Guard assisting with primary election
June 15, 2020
Kentucky National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 David Cureton directs traffic through a drive-through voting station in Lawrenceburg June 12, 2020. Guard members serving in civilian clothes are helping fill in for volunteers for the June 23 primary, setting up and cleaning poll locations and assisting with traffic, parking and crowd control.
New York National Guard celebrates Army's 245th birthday
June 12, 2020
Master Sgt. Roger Townsend, an IT specialist assigned to New York National Guard Joint Force Headquarters, Brig. Gen. Michel Natali, the assistant adjutant general, Army, and Spc. Charles Fetzer, a military policeman assigned to the 104th Military Police Battalion, cut the U.S. Army birthday cake during a 245th Army birthday celebration at the Division of Military and Naval Affairs, Latham, N.Y., June 12th, 2020. The Army birthday is recognized each year with a cake cutting featuring the youngest Soldier, representing the future; the oldest Soldier representing wisdom and traditions; along with the commanding officer, though this year COVID-19 precautions were in place limiting the size of the event.
Fort Indiantown Gap scaling up operations
June 12, 2020
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Cody Greenawalt provides security during a convoy and IED avoidance training exercise. Countering improvised explosive devices is an essential skill that 28th ECAB Soldiers must fine-tune prior to deployment.
Guard helps safeguard primary election against cyber threats
June 12, 2020
Participants from multiple state and federal agencies take part in a Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise (TTX) dealing with election security, June 19, 2019, hosted at the West Virginia National Guard (WVNG) Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ) in Charleston, W.Va. The exercise was held to identify best practices and areas for improvement in cyber incident planning, identification, response, and recovery for elections.
HIANG combat comm Airmen adjust and resume training
June 12, 2020
Members of the 291st Combat Communications Squadron train June 7, 2020, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The team of Airmen set up a mobile training station to conduct their weekend drill, without relocating to their geographically separated unit, based in Hilo. Members of the Hawaii Air National Guard have been reducing their routine travel routes to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Ohio National Guard tests veterans' home residents, staff
June 12, 2020
Maj. Jessica Taylor, right, commander of Company C, 237th Support Battalion, provides personal protective equipment to staff at the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown, Ohio. Taylor led a team of Ohio National Guard medical personnel that tested 140 residents and 200 staff members at the facility. All the tests were negative.
Alaska Air National Guard rescues 3 hikers in Eagle River
June 12, 2020
An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, assigned to the 210th Rescue Squadron, takes off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 23, 2015. The 210th Rescue Squadron provides emergency rescue services for the citizens of Alaska in addition to training for wartime combat search-and-rescue missions.
New York Guard delivers 22.7 million meals
June 11, 2020
Since responding to the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, members of the New York National Guard have distributed more than 22.7 million meals, assembled 1.7 million test kits and answered more than 270,000 calls.
Mission milestone: Cal Guard distributes 50 million meals
June 11, 2020
A member of the California Army National Guard assigned to Joint Task Force 115 loads food into a vehicle at the Interfaith Food Bank in Amador County, California, March 23, 2020. As of June 10, the California National Guard surpassed 50 million meals packed and distributed at food banks throughout the state since operations began in March as part of Cal Guard’s humanitarian response to the coronavirus pandemic.
SCNG medical technicians support COVID-19 response
June 11, 2020
U.S. National Guard Soldiers and an Airman assigned to a Joint Medical Team, South Carolina National Guard, provided COVID-19 support to staff and inmates at Allendale Correctional Institution during most of May 2020. U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jennifer Wagner, an aerospace medical technician from the 169th Medical Group at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, is in the left in the front row.
Double duty: Guard members complete degrees while mobilized
June 11, 2020
Spc. Emma Anderson after graduating from the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md., July 12, 2019. Anderson is activated in support of the state’s response to COVID-19 and is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay with a Bachelor’s of Science in Education.