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Flooding in Minnesota, South Dakota leads to Guard response
June 20, 2014
Members of the South Dakota Army National Guard’s 235th Military Police Company, based out of Sioux Falls, tie sandbags at the Dakota Valley Elementary School parking lot, June 19, 2014, in North Sioux City for community members in the Union County area. About 147 SDNG members are assisting state and local emergency management officials in flood operations in southeast South Dakota in response to the rise in water levels along the Big Sioux River.
Commentary - Recommit to addressing alcohol use
June 20, 2014
A U.S. sailor gives a simulated breathalyzer test during a simulated drunk-driving accident during a Keep What You've Earned fair at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor, July 16, 2013, in Silverdale, Wash.
Total force approach in North Dakota aims to enhance leadership training for future NCOs
June 20, 2014
Tech. Sgt. James Richey, an instructor from the Chief Master. Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger Airman Leadership School at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, right, instructs students about the rules of an interactive knowledge contest during ALS classroom instruction at the North Dakota Air National Guard Base, Fargo, North Dakota, June 12, 2014, as Senior Airman Christopher Mann looks on.
New Mexico Army National Guard aviators train with Marine counterparts
June 20, 2014
Marines at Twenty Nine Palms refuel a New Mexico National Guard helicopter during joint training.
Kentucky Air Guard and U.S. Army establish crucial cargo hub for earthquake response
June 19, 2014
Sgt. Claribel Lopez Feliciano, yard boss for the U.S. Army’s 688th Rapid Port Opening Element, signs a manifest for cargo from Staff Sgt. Kevin Freese, an aerial porter for the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, before the cargo is shipped to a staging area called the forward node during Capstone '14, a homeland earthquake-response exercise at Fort Campbell, Ky., on June 18, 2014. The 123rd CRG is joining with the 688th RPOE to operate a Joint Task Force-Port Opening here from June 16 to 19, 2014.
More than 300 South Dakota National Guard members helping after tornado and flooding
June 18, 2014
More than 120 members of the South Dakota National Guard were responding June 18, 2014, after being activated to assist after flooding.
Alaska National Guard observation leads to remains recovery from 1952 plane crash
June 18, 2014
This Douglas C-124C Globemaster at the National Museum of the United States Air Force is similar to the craft that crashed in 1952 at a remote Alaska site.
Brig. Gen. Michael R. Taheri assumes command of Air National Guard Readiness Center
June 18, 2014
Brig. Gen. Michael R. Taheri, commander of the Air National Guard Readiness Center, assumes command of the ANGRC from Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke III, the director of the ANG, during an assumption of command ceremony June 16, 2014.
Oregon sons serve with their father in air wing
June 17, 2014
Air Force Senior Airman Zachary Phillips, center, is promoted to his present rank June 7, 2014, at a ceremony on the Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore. His brother, Air Force Senior Airman Lewis Phillips, left, and their father, Air Force Senior Master Sgt. John Phillips participated in the ceremony.
New York Army National Guard Soldiers display tools of their trade for Army’s 239th birthday
June 16, 2014
New York Army National Guard Spc. Erik Grijalva instructs a visitor on the proper way to handle an M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon during a weapons and equipment display the unit hosted as part of the Army's celebration of its 239th Birthday on June 14, 2014. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Chief of Staff of the Army, took part in the event, held on June 13 in Bryant Park.
Saber Strike 2014 confirms U.S. commitment to Baltic States
June 13, 2014
A Stryker Combat Vehicle from the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team's 2nd Squadron, 104th Cavalry sits on the ramp at the Harrisburg International Airport, Middletown, Pa., awaiting its turn to be loaded aboard a West Virginia National Guard C-5 bound for the Baltics, June 5, 2014. This is the fifth consecutive year the Stryker Brigade has participated in Exercise Saber Strike - an international exercise that is rotated annually between the countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Old Guard Soldiers mentor Maryland National Guard for ceremonial cannon salutes
June 13, 2014
The Maryland National Guard brought in the pros June 7-8, 2014, as members conducted ceremonial cannon salute training. Soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Salute Guns Platoon or “The Presidential Salute Battery” traveled to Camp Fretterd, north of Baltimore, to train Maryland Guard Soldiers from the 58th Troop Command on everything related to the ceremonial Howitzer Cannon.
Army military intelligence Soldiers prepare to uncage the cat at Panther Strike 2014
June 13, 2014
Military intelligence Soldiers from across the U.S. and Canada organize into different units to form a notional combined joint task force at Panther Strike 2014. The exercise is designed to leverage the Soldiers' various MI specialties in the human, counter, signals, imagery, geo-spatial and all-source intelligence fields in order to capture or eliminate cells of Taliban and al-Qaeda insurgents in a simulated valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province laid out on Camp Williams outside Salt Lake City.
Maj. Gen. Jonathan Treacy retires after more than 30 years of service
June 12, 2014
Air Force Maj. Gen. Jonathan T. Treacy, right, stands at attention alongside Army Gen. Frank Grass, chief National Guard Bureau, during the reading of his retirement order at a ceremony in Treacy’s honor, June 6 at Arlington Hall in Arlington, Va. Treacy, who most recently served as the special assistant to the chief, National Guard Bureau, served for more than 30 years in uniform.
Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment receives Congressional Gold Medal
June 11, 2014
Some of the members of the Puerto Rican infantry unit who distinguished themselves during heroic combat during the Korean War.
NGB vice chief visits Golden Coyote exercise
June 11, 2014
The Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Air Force Lt. Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, left, and Maj. Gen. Tim Reisch, the adjutant general of the South Dakota National Guard, visit Forward Operating Base Custer in Custer State Park, S.D., as a part the 30th annual Golden Coyote training exercise June 8, 2014. Lt. Gen. Lengyel visited the exercise where National Guard, Reserve, active-duty and allied nation forces come together for two-weeks to train in support of overseas contingency operations and homeland support missions.
California's Camp Roberts rehabs helipad and parade field for millions less than projections
June 10, 2014
California Army National Guard engineers spray an even coat of black dye across the completed surface of Camp Roberts' recently restabilized parade field April 29, 2014.
Wisconsin enlistee carries on three-generation Guard tradition
June 9, 2014
Rylie Denson receives the Oath of Enlistment from her father, Maj. Doug Denson, executive officer of the 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment, during a swearing-in ceremony Feb. 25, 2014, in Milwaukee. Rylie became the third generation of Densons to serve in the unit when she enlisted into the Wisconsin Army National Guard. Her grandfather, retired Brig. Gen. Kerry Denson, was the unit’s first commander.
Alaska National Guard saves hiker whose supplies were depleted
June 9, 2014
A pair of Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters taxi after pilots land at the Alaska Army National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility in Nome April 17, 2012. A similar craft rescued a stranded hiker on June 5, 2014.
IN 1937, Colorado Guard used flamethrowers and explosives against plague of locusts
June 9, 2014
Grasshoppers swarm a downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, storefront in early summer 1937. National Guard troops battled the locust invasion with flamethrowers from slow-moving trains and explosives, among other techniques.