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Indiana National Guard receives critical homeland security mission
June 4, 2010

Ohio, Washington Guard to start Homeland Response Forces
June 4, 2010

Colorado Airmen win Guardian Challenge 2010
June 3, 2010
Members of the 137th Space Warning Squadron of the Colorado Air National Guard's 140th Wing won best Space Operations team and best Security Forces Tactics team to take home Air Force Space Command's 2010 Aldridge Trophy as part of Team Buckley, May 21, 2010.

Two Army Guard units named top environmental stewards
June 3, 2010
Army Maj. Gen. Ed Wright, the adjutant general of Wyoming, accepts the Secretary of Defense 2010 Environmental Award for Cultural Resources Management from Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III at the Pentagon June 2, 2010.

Vermont Guardsmen join with New Zealand PRT to help orphanage
June 3, 2010
Staff Sgt. Peter Ladensack, a member of the Vermont National Guard's 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, plays with a baby during a visit to an orphanage in Bamyan province, May 26, 2010. The Soldier is part of the Delaware Embedded Training Team, which along with the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team delivered and assembled bunk beds for the orphanage and gave out clothing, toys and stuffed animals to the kids.

Fort Indiantown Gap offers guided tours of rare butterfly habitat
June 2, 2010

Illinois Guardsmen get realistic training at Fort Irwin
June 2, 2010
Staff Sgt Amanda Morgan and Michael Thompson, both of the 1344th Transportation Company of the Illinois National Guard, participate in an urban warfare training exercise at Fort Irwin, Calif., during the unit's annual training in May. Morgan and Thompson evaluated a casualty and prepared to evacuate the wounded Soldier to a safe location.

Commentary: Airman touched by memorial service in Iraq
June 1, 2010

Museums offers free admission to all Guard members, families
June 1, 2010

Louisiana Guardsmen continue oil spill operations over Memorial Day weekend
June 1, 2010
UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters belonging to the 1/244th Assault Helicopter Battalion, State Aviation Command of the Louisiana Army National Guard sling load several thousand pound sandbags to Trinity Island to fill in a low lying area critical to oil spill mitigation efforts along Louisiana’s shoreline in Hammond, La., May 27, 2010. Trinity Island is one of many barrier islands along the coast of Louisiana that are threatened by the oil spill.

Louisiana guardsmen fill gap at Trinity Island
June 1, 2010

Louisiana Guardsmen construct miles of Hesco barrier
June 1, 2010

Louisiana Guardsmen complete 2.5 miles of Hesco barrier wall
June 1, 2010
Soldiers of the Louisiana National Guard’s 527th and 769th Engineer Battalions complete wall of sand-filled Hesco Concertainer units in Port Fourchon, La., to help keep oil tainted water from reaching Bay Champagne near Port Fourchon, La., May 29, 2010.

123rd Airlift Wing: Excellent in first homeland defense inspection
June 1, 2010
Master Sgt. Michael Ludke, a Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Warfare cell chief from the 123rd Airlift Wing of the Kentucky National Guard, upchannels information during an evacuation of his building following a simulated attack at the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Miss., May 20, 2010. The 123rd and two other units were being evaluated for wartime readiness as part of an Air Mobility Command Operational Readiness Inspection. The ORI was unique in that it marked the first time inspectors evaluated a unit's performance in defense of the United States, using scenarios that played out on American soil rather than a simulated overseas environment.

Louisiana Guard begins Task Force Kout Men in Haiti
June 1, 2010
Col. Michael Borrel

Louisiana Guardsmen assist with loading boom
May 28, 2010
Sgt. Theron Corey and Sgt. Jaquia Jones, both of the Louisiana National
Guard's 1022nd Engineer Company, 527th Engineer Battalion, record the amount
of outgoing hard boom at Breton Sound Marina in Hopedale, La., on May 27,
2010, in support of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup efforts.
Incoming supplies include hard booms, soft booms, absorbent pads, pompoms
and peat moss.

Army floating bridge helps Gulf of Mexico oil spill
May 28, 2010
Louisiana National Guardsmen of 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company, 205th Engineer Battalion, use two Bridge Erection Boats (BEBs) to position Improved Ribbon Bridge bays into place to serve as temporary wharf.

Obama: Guardsmen can aid intelligence, interdiction at border
May 28, 2010
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DOD announces units for upcoming Afghanistan rotation
May 28, 2010
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Fallen Missouri Guardsman honored with highway marker
May 28, 2010