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America Supports You: Guard Soldiers, Families Get Books
May 22, 2007 — INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana citizen-soldiers and their families are enjoying copious reading material thanks to a partnership between bookseller Barnes and Noble, the United Service Organizations and...

Defense Officials to Implement Guard, Reserve Changes
May 17, 2007 — WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has charged his staff to take action on 20 of 23 recommendations made by an independent commission for changes in the reserve components.Gates presented...

9-1-1: Nuclear detonation; Exercise Vigilant Guard tests National Guard's role as first military responder
May 16, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - Even the response to a 10-kiloton nuclear device detonating in an American city starts in the 9-1-1 system.In this nightmare nuclear scenario, the phone lines lead first to a...

Oklahoma Guard Arrives in Azerbaijan for Humanitarian Mission
May 16, 2007 — BAKU, Azerbaijan - Oklahoma Air National Guard members arrived here May 14 to participate in Operation Cherokee Angel, a medical humanitarian mission aimed at improving the health and welfare of the...

National Guardsmen Help Battle Wildfires in Four States
May 16, 2007 — WASHINGTON - National guardsmen in four states are helping to battle wildfires that have burned more than 300,000 acres, Defense Department officials said today.All of the guardsmen are working under...

Stressed to the Seams, Alaska Shield still holds its Northern Edge
May 16, 2007 — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - "You get out of it what you build into it," said Col. Jerry Kidrick, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Joint Forces Headquarters-Alaska National Guard. Kidrick was speaking...

Attaches Survey U.S. Disaster-Response Capabilities
May 15, 2007 — MUSCATATUCK URBAN TRAINING CENTER, Ind. - A handful of attaches got a first-hand look at U.S. military and civilian first responders' ability to respond to a catastrophe at the National Guard's...

Simulated terrorist threat trains military, civilian agencies
May 15, 2007 — SEWARD, Alaska - The first week of the Alaska Shield/Northern Edge 07 exercise culminated here May 11 with a massive interagency effort to secure a ship with a simulated biological threat on...

Chief: National Guard State Partnership Program can help keep a broken promise
May 14, 2007 — DACHAU, Germany - Never again.People said what two Army National Guard divisions found inside Dachau Concentration Camp in April 1945 must happen "never again." The words were carved into memorials...

Vigilant Guard: Voices of experience add to the training
May 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The National Guard exercise Vigilant Guard this month is offering service members some of the most in depth and comprehensive training available in crisis management. But that's...

Mothers wore combat boots and gas masks on their special day
May 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The National Restaurant Association reports that Mother's Day, a 93-year-old American institution, is the most popular day of the year to dine in restaurants in the United States...

Members of Air Guard medical groups unite for Vigilant Guard
May 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The building had collapsed, and victims were trapped and screaming for medical assistance through the smoke and cement dust of a 20-foot-tall rubble pile. Luckily for them, an...

Hands that held weapons now hold hope
May 12, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - As the Vigilant Guard exercise continues to test National Guard members from around the country, Soldiers from the Indiana Army Guard's 2nd Battalion, 293rd Infantry from Fort...

National Guard cleaning up Greensburg
May 10, 2007 — GREENSBURG, Kan. - It's hard to describe the immensity of the destruction in Greensburg, Kan. State and federal officials say 95 percent of the town is destroyed; gone as well are 961 homes, and 136...

Guard Responding to Domestic Crises Nationwide
May 10, 2007 — WASHINGTON - While President Bush toured the site of a deadly tornado in Kansas today, the National Guard continues to demonstrate its readiness as it responds to natural disasters from coast to...

Greensburg Tornado Changes Life of Kansas Guard Soldier
May 10, 2007 — Greensburg, Kan. - It had taken almost two days of work by a dozen people to clear the debris of what was once a garage away from the pickup truck buried underneath. To the joy of onlookers, Rodney A...

From citizen to disaster relief workers, National Guard members transform quickly to help town of Greensburg
May 10, 2007 — GREENSBURG, Kan. - The phone rang at 1:45 a.m. and minutes later National Guardmembers from all over Kansas picked up their bags, walked out the door and made the transformation from everyday citizen...

Indiana's vigilant medical crew provides care for the caregivers
May 10, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - A day before one of the National Guard's largest homeland defense training exercises got underway, Indiana National Guard medics were busy preparing here on May 9 to ensure...

Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers help flooded areas
May 9, 2007 — More than 100 Citizen-Soldiers of the Missouri National Guard are assisting, or ready to assist, communities in flood response efforts. Forty Soldiers have been working overnight in Craig, helping to...

Northern Edge Combined Training Exercise
May 9, 2007 — Fairbanks, Alaska - Today in Fairbanks exercise officials conducted the most involved scenario of the two week training effort to refine and evaluate coordination between local state and federal...

New York Guardsmen Earn Danish Military March Ribbon

Kentucky Guard Builds Portable Air Base for Patriot 26

Three Components, One Army: LaNeve Stresses Guard’s Role in Army’s New Priorities

Pennsylvania Guardsmen Demonstrate Drone Innovation Project

Nordhaus, Raines Outline a National Guard Focused on the Future