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Counterdrug launches new Counter Threat Finance program
April 3, 2012
Steve Gurdak, detective with the Washington D.C./Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, discusses the nuances of money laundering during the Counter Threat Finance course on Bolling Air Force Base, Dec. 9, 2011. National Guard Counterdrug personnel spent two weeks in the classroom training for the new Counter Threat Finance mission of the National Guard's Counterdrug program
Illinois National Guard trains Soldiers to respond to sexual assaults
April 3, 2012
Detective Mark DeVaney, with the Springfield Police Department speaks to nearly 70 Soldiers with the Illinois National Guard attending the two week Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention training Feb. 23, 2012 at Camp Lincoln in Springfield, Ill. The Soldiers met with a panel of sexual assault response experts from the Springfield area.
Oregon Guard participate in Shanti-Doot exercise in Bangladesh
April 3, 2012
Oregon Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Darrin Culp, of the 249th Regiment Training Institute in Monmouth, Ore., oversees two Nepalese soldiers as they tend to their role-playing comrade during a medical emergency scenario on the first day of Exercise Shanti Doot 3, in Bangladesh March 9. Culp and his fellow Soldiers were invited to participate as a battlefield lifesaving technique instructors through the State Partnership Program between Oregon and Bangladesh. Exercise Shanti Doot 3 is a Bangladesh armed forces-hosted and U.S. Pacific Command Global Peace Operations Initiative supported joint multi-national exercise designed to give operations, logistics, planning and tactical peace-keeping training to members of 13 different countries in preparation for United Nations Peace-keeping Operations.
VA makes progress on pledge to end veteran homelessness
April 3, 2012
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Illinois Airman named Air National Guard Outstanding Noncommissioned Officer of the Year
April 3, 2012
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jacob Curtis was selected as one of the 2012 Air National Guard Outstanding Airmen of the Year. Curtis is a Security Forces Journeyman assigned to the 126th Air Refueling Wing's Security Forces Squadron and received this award in part for his dedication to duty, superior knowledge, and unwavering volunteerism. His OAY package will next compete in the Air Force's 2012 Twelve Outstanding Airmen of the Year. Curtis recently returned from a six-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Alaska Air National Guard members rescue two plane crash survivors
April 2, 2012
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N.D. Aviators Serving on Rotations to the Southwest Border
March 30, 2012
Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Sigl performs a pre-flight inspection on an OH-58 Kiowa aircraft in Marana, Ariz. Sigl is part of a North Dakota National Guard flight crew participating with Task Force Raven of the Southwest Border mission.
Hawaii National Guard "Stay on Track" program helps youth stay drug-free
March 30, 2012
Army Sgt. Bernie "Buma" Bumanglag, Hawaii Army National Guard with the Hawaii Counter Drug Stay On Track Program, teach a group of sixth graders at Aiea Elementary School on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, about the GUARD decision making process. This lesson is a part of a semester long drug awareness curriculum designed to give school children the necessary skills and knowledge, to choice a drug-free life.
Missouri Army National Guard building better lives in Central America
March 30, 2012
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Rhode Island Guard Soldier makes selfless, ultimate sacrifice for Afghan child
March 29, 2012
Sgt. Dennis Weichel Jr., a Rhode Island Army National Guard infantryman mobilized with Company C, 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment, sits inside a Black Hawk helicopter prior to a mission earlier in his deployment in Afghanistan. Weichel died March 22, 2012, from injuries he sustained when he was struck by a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, after moving an Afghan child to safety.
National Guard Marathon Team runners perform well in desert to honor Bataan Death March
March 28, 2012
Army National Guard Spc. Rachel Walter, a member of the All-Guard Marathon Team and Maryland National Guard, marches through the desert between miles 20 and 21 during the 23rd Annual Bataan Memorial Death March near White Sands, N.M., March 25, 2012. Walter completed the most grueling of all categories-Military (Heavy) Marathon-which means she carried a 35-pound rucksack the entire 26.2 mile distance.
California Civil Support Team enhances civilian partnerships through training
March 27, 2012
Army Staff Sgt. Aaron Zuniga, a science and healthcare specialist assigned to the 95th Civil Support Team, California Army National Guard, refers to his instructional steps before beginning to extract and test DNA from samples of a potential Weapon of Mass Destruction taken from a simulated domestic terrorist lab while participating in Operation Red Snow, Feb. 16, 2012 at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center near Bridgeport, Calif. Operation Red Snow is a multi-agency chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threat response exercise to strengthen the partnership between federal, state and local jurisdiction regarding a response to the possible threat of a domestic attack on the United States.
Local Missouri Guard member reacts quickly to flood waters, saves neighbor
March 27, 2012
Army Staff Sgt. Abe Faulkner, a member of Joint Force Headquarters in Jefferson City and a fulltime mechanic in the Combined Support Maintenance Shop at the Ike Skelton Training Site, helped rescue a neighbor from high waters on Big Tavern Creek near Iberia, Mo. last week. Local emergency responders used Faulkner's boat to reach the stranded driver and get him to safety unharmed.
N.Y. Air Guard member selected as best Air Guard honor guard manager
March 27, 2012
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DOD, National Guard's Operation Deep Freeze 2011-2012 season concluded
March 26, 2012
Former chief of National Guard Bureau named as 'Great Floridian'
March 26, 2012
An MV Green Wave arrives at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Feb. 14, 2012, carrying over 300 units of United States Antarctic Program cargo representing the program's annual food, parts and other supplies during Operation Deep Freeze, the Defense Department's support activity to the National Science Foundation-managed USAP.
Ohio National Guard Soldiers use AED equipment, swift action to save life
March 26, 2012
Paramedics prepare to transport a civilian contractor via helicopter to the hospital March 6, 2012, after he suffered a heart attack while working on a building rooftop at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base. Through use of an automated external defibrillator - located in all Ohio National Guard facilities throughout the state - Ohio Guard Soldiers helped revive the contractor when he initially went into cardiac arrest.
White House official honors Kentucky Air Guard wing with rare award
March 26, 2012
Richard Reed, special assistant to President Barack Obama for national security affairs, congratulates Airmen of the 123rd Airlift Wing during an awards ceremony held March 18, 2012, at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky. Reed was at the base to honor the wing and two other Kentucky Air Guard units for their excellence.
Alaska Air National Guard rescues two stranded skiers
March 22, 2012
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Indiana Guard hosts Canadian forces at state military training facilities
March 22, 2012
Canadian Cpl Anthony Van Wyngaarden, a machine gunner with 31st Canadian Brigade Group, Land Forces Central, Ontario, lays heavy suppressive fire for his fellow soldiers as they enter a building to search for simulated enemies during exercise Arrowhead Lightning 2012 at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center March 16, 2012.