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Kansas Guard partnership helps Soldiers earn degrees
June 7, 2021 — SALINA, Kan. – Active-Duy, Reserve and National Guard Soldiers who take military occupational specialty conversion courses at the Kansas Army National Guard Regional Training Site for Maintenance now... MORE

Eric Vannoy, lead welding instructor at Salina Area Technical College, left, inspects the work of Soldiers enrolled in the Advanced Leaders Course for the 91E Allied Trade Specialist military occupational specialty qualification course at the Kansas Army National Guard’s Regional Training Site for Maintenance in Salina, Kansas, May 20, 2021. The KSARNG-SATC partnership gives Soldiers completing the Army course the opportunity to enroll in and receive credit for college courses.

152nd Airlift Wing, Navy conduct water survival training
June 7, 2021 — RENO, Nev. – The 152nd Airlift Wing conducted water survival training with the Naval Air Station Fallon Search and Rescue (SAR) Team at Lahontan Reservoir June 5.More than 85 Airmen from the 152nd... MORE

Petty Officer 2nd Class Asher Ferguson, Naval Air Station Fallon Search and Rescue team crew chief, hoists an Airman from the 152nd Airlift Wing in Reno, Nev., out of the water at Lahontan Reservoir June 5, 2021. The 152nd Airlift Wing conducted joint water survival training with the NAS Fallon SAR team.

Virginia National Guard tests hurricane response tools
June 4, 2021 — RICHMOND, Va. – Aviators from the Virginia National Guard participated in an exercise managed by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management to test the state’s hurricane response air operations... MORE

Virginia National Guard aviators participate in an air operations exercise managed by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management May 10, 2021, at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Sandston, Virginia. The exercise aimed to test a new smart phone-enabled mission-management platform for use during a large-scale emergency response, such as a hurricane.

Cal Guard helps vaccinate nearly 1.5 million Californians
June 3, 2021 — SACRAMENTO, Calif — “One shot, one arm at a time,” boasted U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Donald McKinney Jr., a California National Guard combat medic, while inoculating a Tehama County resident with the... MORE

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Leroy L. Cisneros of the California Army National Guard, commander of the Community Vaccination Center in Oakland, California, oversees operations of both Army and Air Guardsmen who worked with civilian health care workers to vaccinate more than 500,000 San Francisco Bay Area residents after the temporary facility opened February 2021. In three months, Cisneros’ hard-working crew reached the half-million mark before closing in late May.

Alaska National Guard rescues stranded mountaineers
June 2, 2021 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air and Army National Guardsmen rescued 12 stranded mountaineers on Klutlan Glacier southeast of Mt. Bona in Wrangell-St Elias National Park June 1.The... MORE

Pararescue personnel with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th Rescue Squadron used an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter like this one in the search for 12 mountaineers stranded in poor weather on Klutlan Glacier southeast of Mt. Bona in Wrangell-St Elias National Park. The mountaineers were rescued June 1 after the 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, dispatched an Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook with a paramedic from the 2nd Battalion, 211 Aviation Regiment.

466th Medical Company returns from Middle East deployment
June 2, 2021 — QUEENSBURY, N.Y. – Forty-seven New York Army National Guard Soldiers from the 466th Medical Company-Area Support returned from a nine-month deployment to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq.The... MORE

Spc. Olivia Mannetti, a combat medic with the 466th Medical Company, Area Support, New York National Guard, prepares to make an incision on a simulated throat as she practices conducting a cricothyrotomy at the Role 2 compound at Ain al-Asad base, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2020. The company recently completed a nine-month deployment to the Middle East and returned to New York.

142nd Civil Engineers get valuable training in Hawaii
June 2, 2021 — OAHU, Hawaii – The 142nd Civil Engineer Squadron's firefighters and Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians completed two weeks of annual training on the island of Oahu in May.Many of the Oregon... MORE

Firefighters from the Oregon Air National Guard's 142nd Wing conduct a live-fire exercise with Marine Corps firefighters at Marine Corps Base, Hawaii, May 14, 2021. This burn is part of a larger scale joint exercise that includes aircraft familiarization, egress training, and co-training and mentoring less experienced firefighters.

Alaska Air National Guard rescues two men after plane crash
June 2, 2021 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a pilot and passenger May 31, two days after they were in an aircraft crash on Mount Hawkins in... MORE

Pararescue personnel with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued a pilot and passenger May 31, 2021, two days after their airplane crashed near Mount Hawkins in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The rescue was a collaboration by the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the 176th Wing and the National Park Service.

WING helps administer almost 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines
June 1, 2021 — MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen have helped local health departments administer nearly 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines since establishing the first mobile vaccination... MORE

Wisconsin National Guard members assist with mobile vaccination team operations March 10, 2021, in Greendale, Wis. Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen have helped local health departments administer nearly 100,000 vaccines across Wisconsin since establishing the first mobile vaccination teams in late January.

NY Guard Airmen plant 'Survivor Tree' to commemorate 9/11
June 1, 2021 — ROME N.Y. – Airmen of the Eastern Air Defense Sector marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center by planting a seedling from a tree that survived the attack outside... MORE

Left to right, Col. Paul M. Bishop, EADS commander; Rome Mayor Jackie Izzo; Col. Joseph F. Roos, 224th Air Defense Group commander, and Lt. Col. Josh Klemen, EADS Canadian Detachment commander, planted the 9/11 Survivor Tree seedling at EADS during a short ceremony May 26, 2021. The seedling was taken from a tree found in the World Trade Center rubble in October 2001 and nursed back to health.

National Guard chief begins Memorial Day weekend by renewing ties with survivor group
May 28, 2021 — ARLINGTON, Virginia – The National Guard’s senior general officer reaffirmed today the component’s relationship with a group providing comfort, care and resources to those grieving the death of a... MORE

Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief, National Guard Bureau, addresses attendees at the TAPS 27th Annual National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp, Arlington, Virginia, May 28, 2021.

Secretary of state, Greenland premier tour NYNG LC-130
May 28, 2021 — KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland – The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing gave Greenland Premier Múte Bourup Egede and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken a close-up look at one of the wing’s... MORE

New York Air National Guard Maj. Shay Price, an LC-130 navigator, briefs Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Greenland Premier Múte Bourup Egede, and other officials, about the LC-130s used by the wing to support climate science research on Greenland's Ice Cap at the Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, airport May 20, 2021. The 109th Airlift Wing operates from the airport when supporting National Science Foundation research in Greenland.

NYNG remembers sacrifice in Memorial Day ceremony
May 28, 2021 — LATHAM, New York – The New York National Guard’s headquarters remembered 10 Soldiers and Airmen who died in the past year – on duty and off – during a short Memorial Day ceremony May 27.Those... MORE

Air Force Maj. Gen. Timothy LaBarge, assistant adjutant general for New York, and Air Force Command Chief Master Sgt. Denny Richardson, state command chief for New York, render honors while taps is played during a Memorial Day service in Latham, N.Y., May 27, 2021. Each year the facility holds a service to recognize New York Guardsman who died the previous year.

Alaska Air National Guard helps rescue injured hiker
May 28, 2021 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing partnered with multiple civil search and rescue partners to rescue a hiker injured in a fall May 26 near... MORE

Pararescue personnel with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 212th Rescue Squadron transfer an injured hiker from a 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60 Pave Hawk to a Guardian Flight, AirMedCare air ambulance after a multiagency rescue from an avalanche near Donoho Peak in Wrangle-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve May 26, 2021.

LANG conducts tree drop to fight erosion, help wildlife
May 28, 2021 — NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment, supported the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service during the annual Christmas Tree Drop in the Bayou Sauvage National... MORE

The Louisiana National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment, in support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, loads and transports bundles of recycled Christmas trees provided by Orleans Parish residents to rebuild marshland in Bayou Sauvage in New Orleans East May 26, 2021. The trees create new marsh habitats.

Kentucky National Guard helps vaccinate inmates
May 27, 2021 — PAINTSVILLE, Ky. – The Kentucky National Guard continues to play a major role in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations in the commonwealth.Kentucky Guard Mobile Vaccination Strike Teams have... MORE

Kentucky National Guard Sgt. Okoarye Dishman, a medic, vaccinates a detainee at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville, Ky., May 20, 2021.

Washington National Guard prepares for wildfire season
May 27, 2021 — JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Washington National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are transitioning from COVID-19 response and civil disturbance missions to prepare for what could be another... MORE

Soldiers from the Washington National Guard take part in wildland firefighter training with the Washington Department of Natural Resources at Joint Base Lewis-McChord May 25, 2021. The Washington National Guard has partnered with the DNR since 2013 to conduct annual wildland firefighter training.

Alabama Guardsmen take top honors in CNGB Postal Matches
May 27, 2021 — HAMPTON, N.C. – National Guardsmen from across the nation competed in the 2021 Chief, National Guard Bureau (CNGB) Postal Matches-Phase III at Camp Butner Training Center May 17-21.Alabama Army... MORE

National Guard competitors fire on line from the kneeling position May 19, 2021, during the 2021 Chief, National Guard Bureau Postal Matches at Camp Butner, Hampton, North Carolina.

NCNG, 1st responders practice helicopter aquatic rescue
May 27, 2021 — RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina National Guard aviators joined first responders from 16 state and local agencies for helicopter aquatic rescue team (HART) training in Weldon May 19-20.The training at... MORE

North Carolina National Guard Aviators join first responders from 16 state and local agencies for North Carolina helicopter aquatic rescue team training at Weldon, North Carolina, May 20, 2021. The training at the rapids of the Roanoke River simulated swift water rescue missions.

AZNG partners with Active Component for COVID vaccinations
May 26, 2021 — PHOENIX – The Arizona National Guard is partnering with its active-duty counterparts from the 56th Medical Group at Luke Air Force Base, Glendale, and the 355th Medical Group at Davis-Monthan Air... MORE

Airman 1st Class Samantha Gomez, 162nd Medical Squadron, aerospace medical technician, vaccinates a military dependent at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Ariz., May 6, 2021. The Arizona National Guard is partnering with Active Components to surge capacity and capability in providing vaccinations to service members and their dependents.

Pennsylvania Guard Medical Unit Gains Vital Experience During Field Exercise

California Air National Guard Hosts Reaper Smoke 2025

Louisiana Guard, Active Component Airmen Complete Air-to-Air Integration Training

Air National Guard Leaders Host 2025 Wing Leader Fly-In

Colorado Army National Guard Conducts Aviation Training for Wildfire Season