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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.
Aftermath: Alabama Guard still heavily engaged in tornado response
May 6, 2011
Spc. Robert Boettner, a Soldier form the 31st Chemical Brigade, carries a child's bike from the rubble in the Crescent Ridge area in Tuscaloosa, Ala. April 30, 2011. Many families lost everything during the tornado and little discoveries like this bike that still works helps them to hold on to hope.
Guard, active Soldiers help boy get wish and become honorary Soldier
May 5, 2011
Staff Sgt. Kerry Whitaker, chief of the M270A1 launcher from 2-18 FAR, helps Honorary Soldier Erick Morales into an M270A1 Launcher to do his ride and process a simulated fire mission. Whitney Marsh, the respite care provider for Erik, contacted the National Guard to help make Erik's wish of being a Soldier come true.
Arkansas Guard rescues boy scouts stranded by flood waters
May 4, 2011
Members of a Boy Scout group from Louisiana who were stranded by floodwaters in a remote section of the Ouachita National Forest in southwest Arkansas enjoy the view from an Arkansas National Guard helicopter that rescued them early Tuesday, May 3, 2011. The six Scouts and two adult leaders had been stranded without communications since Sunday.
Dale Jr. optimistic going into weekend, rest of season as he represents National Guard
May 4, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr. driver of the No. 88 National Guard NASCAR racecar, checks his gauges moments before the race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., April 30, 2011. Jr. looked promising the day before during practice, but started the race in the 24th position and would struggle all night to cross the finish line in 19th.
Guard operates in several states as relief efforts continue
May 4, 2011
A team of Illinois Army National Guard Soldiers, with the 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment are taken by a Sheriff Department's boat to the water and sewer treatment facility in Murphysboro, Ill. April 30, 2011.