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Indiana Guard task force unites first-response capabilities
May 19, 2011
Indiana Army National Guard Spc. Nichole Smith of Franklin, Ind., a medic in the emergency response unit, readies a stretcher during a training exercise at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center near Butlerville, Ind., May 14, 2011. The unit is currently conducting their first collective training exercise in the field in preparation for their validation evaluation slated for August.
Exercises test medical response of 123rd Airlift Wing, VA after major earthquake
May 19, 2011
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Heather Speidel, a medic with the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Medical Group, simulates inserting a breathing tube in the windpipe of a notional plane-crash victim during earthquake-response exercises held May 18, 2011, at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky. The exercises were designed to test the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Kentucky Air Guard to provide medical care following a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault line.
Missouri National Guard plays important part in National Level Exercise
May 19, 2011
Missouri National Guard officers coordinate with their peers in other state and federal agencies during the National Level Exercise at Ike Skelton Training Site in May.
National Guard supports final Endeavour flight
May 19, 2011
Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Endeavour moves along the crawlerway from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., March 11, 2011. Riding atop a crawler-transporter attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, Endeavour's last scheduled 3.4-mile trek to the pad, known as "rollout," took just less than eight hours. (NASA courtesy photo) (Released)
Dale Jr., National Guard team implement tire strategies in Dover, finish 12th
May 18, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 National Guard NASCAR racecar, makes a pit stop as his crew sprint around his car at the Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware May7, 2011. Jr. started the race in the third position and after battling the handling of his car all night, finished in 12th place. He is still in fourth place in the Sprint Cup series standings.
Adjutant General: ‘Always Ready, Always There’ doesn’t just happen
May 18, 2011
Brig. Gen. Donald P. Dunbar, the adjutant general of Wisconsin, photographed May 21, 2009. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. 1st Class Vaughn R. Larson
Guardsmen in Louisiana continue battle along state's waterways
May 18, 2011
VIDELIA, La. – Louisiana National Guardsman Spc. Allen Cormier of Central, La., feels the ground under the water for signs of a sandboil on the west side of the Mississippi River levee outside of Videlia, La., May 14, 2011. More than 25 members of the 225th Engineer Brigade have been working 24 hours a day searching for sandboils and looking for seepage along portions of the 72 miles of levee that protect Concordia Parish from the brimming Mississippi River. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rebekah Malone, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office/Released)
National Level Exercise showcases Guard’s interagency operability
May 17, 2011
While units of the Mississippi National Guard are dealing with floods threatening the western part of the state, more than 100 Georgia Army and Air Guard members have set up shop here at the Meridian-Lauderdale County Public Safety Training Center. They will spend the next five days participating in Operation Vigilant Guard 2011, along with some Soldiers and Airmen from the “cotton state” and Florida, and observers from West Virginia and Texas.
2011 Vigilant Guard exercise kicks off in Jefferson County
May 17, 2011
Lt. Col. Timothy Covington, commander of the Wisconsin National Guard's 54th Civil Support Team, coordinates with Jefferson County fire department and Sheriff's Department members during a scenario Saturday morning (May 14) to kick off Vigilant Guard 2011. Vigilant Guard is a large-scale disaster response exercise designed to test National Guard capabilities developed since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and also since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Vigilant Guard shows how local, state and federal agencies would collaborate in response to a real emergency.
Louisiana Guard members build flood protection, provide security
May 16, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Cedric Grimes, a member of the Louisiana National Guard, operates a Compactor at the southern end of Krotz Springs, La., May 12, 2011. The Louisiana National Guard is working jointly with local, state and parish officials on a nearly two-mile long levee that will add one to nine feet of protection from flooding for 240 homes outside of the town’s ring levee during the opening of the Morganza Spillway.
Eight Guard states active in largest-ever National Level Exercise
May 16, 2011
Members of the Indiana 53rd Civil Support Team assist the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, District 2, Tactical Rescue Team from South Bend, Indiana, pull a mock victim from the rubble during National Level Exercise 2011, a full-scale exercise meant to represent the destruction following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault line. The exercise, taking place at Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex May 16 - 20, will examine the government's ability to implement local, state, and federal catastrophic earthquake response plans.
Wisconsin National Guard to host week-long disaster exercise
May 16, 2011
National Guard cost-effective solution in fiscally constrained times
May 13, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, acting director of the Army National Guard, talks about the Army Guard as an operational force during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington, May 11, 2011. Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley (left), chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Air Force Lt. Gen. Harry "Bud" Wyatt, director of the Air National Guard, also talked about how far the Air Guard and the National Guard as a whole have come since 9/11.
Alaska Guard wraps up free medical clinic in rural Alabama
May 11, 2011
Air Force Col. Ron Kichura, an optometrist and commander of the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Medical Group, performs an inner ocular pressure test on Hayneville Mayor Helenore Bell here May 10, 2011. Seventy members deployed here: 25 from the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Medical Group; 10 support personnel from other Alaska Air Guard units; and 35 from a variety of Guard and Reserve units around the country. They arrived here May 1 for 12 days of training through the Innovative Readiness Program. This program allows Guard and Reserve members to get the training they need while at the same time delivering real-world results -- in this case, providing an array of health-care services to a historically underserved area.
Louisiana Guard rushes to protect city from flood waters
May 11, 2011
Members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 927th and 928th Sapper Engineer Companies are constructing sand-filled HESCO basket barriers on top of a levee along Lake Palourde in Morgan City, La., May 10, 2011. The Guard members are adding three feet of protection to the levee as a precautionary measure due to possible flooding caused by the rising Mississippi River.
Alabama Guard continues state's largest-ever domestic response
May 10, 2011
Army Pfc. Justin Jackson, of the Alabama Army National Guard's 1670th Transportation Company, provides flood response security for residents of Concord, Ala., May 9, 2011. Jackson is one of nearly 2,000 Guard members assisting with security, logistics, aviation and other support missions throughout Alabama’s affected regions.
Dale Jr. still holds on to fourth place in Sprint Cup Series standings
May 10, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 National Guard racecar, reflects on the race ahead of him at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C. May 7, 2011. Jr. finished the race in 14th and is still in fourth place in the Sprint Cup series standings.
Joint exercise enhances capabilities, partnerships
May 10, 2011
Air Force Lt. Col. June Oldman, director of MEDLITE 11, and Congolese Col. Kabanda, a physician, exchange tokens of gratitude May 5, 2011, as part of the MEDLITE 11 exercise's closing ceremony in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 60 active duty, National Guard and Reserve Airmen worked together to teach aeromedical evacuation techniques to more than 150 Congolese service members from April 25 to May 5.
First-time marathoners take top Guard honors
May 10, 2011
Air Force Airman 1st Class Emily Shertzer, a member of the 553rd Band of the Mid-Atlantic in the Pennsylvania National Guard, competes in her first marathon at the National Guard/Lincoln Marathon May 1, 2011. Shertzer won the top spot for National Guard females and second place among overall female runners with a time of 2 hours, 54 minutes, 10 seconds.
National Guard aviators train with Dutch infantry
May 10, 2011
Dutch infantry soldiers with The Netherlands’ 11th Air Assault Brigade board a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crewed by North Carolina Army National Guard Soldiers with Company C, 1st Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment, during a May 5, 2011, training exercise at Fort Hood, Texas.