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Sword fighting as 'strategy in blink of an eye'
September 30, 2021
Lt. Col. Robert G. Childs, 234th Intelligence Squadron commander, poses for a competitor portrait Feb. 18, 2018, at Huntington Beach, California. Childs competes as a martial arts sword fighter throughout the world, and became a world champion in the open rapier and dagger category at Swordfish XIV, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Virginia National Guard officer assumes post in Colombia
September 27, 2021
Maj. Angel Pastrana is serving as a bilateral affairs officer for U.S. Southern Command at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, after graduating from the Spanish-immersive Command and General Staff College course at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Tennessee National Guardsman revives pedestrian with CPR
September 27, 2021
Staff Sgt. Christopher Hurley, a resident of Soddy Daisy, Tennessee assigned to the 913th Engineer Company of the Tennessee National Guard, at the Laredo International Bridge in Texas. Hurley revived a pedestrian Sept. 20, 2021, by performing CPR while supporting the Department of Defense's Southwest Border mission.
Soldier aids crash victims on drive home
September 13, 2021
A vehicle is wedged under an overpass off of I-35 in Minnesota after it crashed Aug. 20, 2021. Minnesota National Guard 1st Sgt. Christopher Reed, the joint operations center noncommissioned officer in charge and first sergeant of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, helped the two passengers, who were OK.
Airman uses deployment training to resuscitate drowning child
September 13, 2021
Master Sgt. Keona Newsom, 192nd Operations Group commander’s support staff noncommissioned officer in charge, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Aug. 24, 2021, as she recounts saving a child’s life. Newsom performed CPR on a drowning 4-year-old girl, saving her life.
91st Cyber Brigade Soldiers earn Ranger tab
September 10, 2021
Maj. Andre Slonopas, right, commander of the Virginia National Guard's 134th Cyber Security Company, 124th Cyber Protection Battalion, 91st Cyber Brigade, proudly shows off his Ranger tab following the completion of the U.S. Army Ranger School in July 2021 at Fort Benning, Georgia. Slonopas, who began his career as an engineer officer with the Fredericksburg-based 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, switched to the Fairfax-based Data Processing Unit in 2014 and became one of the staff officers instrumental in standing up the 91st Cyber Brigade.
Aunt, nephew reunite during Middle East deployment
September 10, 2021
West Virginia Army National Guard Cpt. Brittany Watson, a medical operations officer in the 111th Engineer Brigade, and Sgt. Andres Rivera, a carpentry and masonry specialist in the 766th Engineer Company of the 111th, recently reunited during a deployment to the Middle East. They had not seen each other in over 12 years.
RED HORSE Ready! 111th squadron always set to ‘saddle up’
September 8, 2021
Members of the 201st Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, or REDHORSE, Detachment 1, pose for a picture at Biddle Air National Guard Base in Horsham, Pennsylvania, May 15, 2021. This is the first official group photo of the 201st REDHORSE Det. 1 in the Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP, utility uniform on base since they returned from their recent deployment overseas.
Refugee is now a Vermont National Guard officer
September 3, 2021
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Abdimaik Hashi, a newly commissioned transportation officer in the Vermont National Guard, is assigned to assist the Vermont National Guard state resilience coordinator at Camp Johnson, Joint Force Headquarters, Colchester, Vermont. Hashi, shown on Aug. 13, 2021, spent the first eight years of his life in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Coming to America: A Moldovan story
September 2, 2021
U.S. Army Capt. Fiodor Strikovski, military intelligence officer, 29th Combat Aviation Brigade, Maryland National Guard, in front of his home in Fallston, Maryland, Aug. 6, 2021. Before Strikovski moved to America and joined the MDNG, he served in the Moldovan Army.
Alaska National Guard Soldier reflects on her 9/11 experience
August 30, 2021
Master Sgt. Melissa Branch, the Alaska Army National Guard state religious affairs noncommissioned officer, at the Alaska National Guard Armory on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 26, 2021. Branch was in the Marine Corps stationed at the Navy Annex building next to the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
From Afghan interpreter to service in the National Guard
August 25, 2021
2nd Lt. Fahim Masoud, center, briefs Maj. Gen. Rich Neely, left, the adjutant general of Illinois and commander of the Illinois National Guard, and Command Sgt. Maj. Dena Ballowe, senior enlisted leader of the Illinois National Guard, during a visit to a COVID-19 mass vaccination site in Chicago Feb. 1, 2021.
Focus on the Force Week 2021 celebrates ANG’s outstanding Airmen of the year
August 20, 2021
From left: Senior Master Sgt. Mark Schneider II, of the 179th Airlift Wing, Ohio National Guard; Senior Airman Ruth-Ann Bell, of the 193rd Special Operations Wing, Pennsylvania National Guard; Master Sgt. John Stegen of the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming National Guard; and Ms. Jennifer Weir, wife of Master Sgt. Tyler Weir, 120th Airlift Wing, Montana National Guard, participates in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, August 16, 2021.
Father, son reflect on shared service
August 20, 2021
Tech. Sgt. David LaPierre stands with his son, Staff Sgt. Trevor LaPierre for a photo during Red Flag 21-3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
1034th CSC provides clean water for Northern Strike exercise
August 9, 2021
U.S. Army Cpl. Noah Borges and Spc. Garth Heinrich, water treatment specialists assigned to the 1034th Composite Supply Company, 185th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, Iowa Army National Guard, prime the raw water pump in preparation to purify water at Howe's Lake, Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Michigan, during Northern Strike 21-2, Aug. 4, 2021. The 1034th CSC has supplied all water assets across the entire Northern Strike area of operations at Camp Grayling.
Oklahoma National Guard mothers, sons serve together
August 9, 2021
Lt. Col. Tanya Roland and her son, Sgt. Paul Roland, serve together in the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team during a rotation at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, July 11, 2021.
Virginia Guard Soldiers train on military funeral honors
August 2, 2021
Virginia National Guard Soldiers participate in Level 1 Funeral Honors training June 25, 2021, at the State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach, Va. The course prepares Soldiers to conduct professional military funeral honors in accordance with service tradition.
Son follows father into ChalleNGe Academy for 2nd chance
July 21, 2021
Jeremy Bullock, left, and his father, Brandon, on July 11, 2021, at the Maryland National Guard’s Freestate ChalleNGe Academy program at the Edgewood Arsenal of Aberdeen Proving Ground. Jeremy is attending the 18-month program for at-risk youth 20 years after his father graduated from the same program.
From Iraq to Vermont National Guard
July 20, 2021
U.S. Army Spc. Ali Aljarah, an 88M heavy vehicle operator assigned to Alpha Company 186 Brigade Support Battalion, Vermont National Guard, during the unit's annual training evolution at the Camp Ethan Allen Training Center in Jericho, Vermont, June 13, 2020. Aljarah emigrated to the United States from Iraq in 2012 before enlisting in the Vermont Army National Guard at the age of 22.
Training team seizes opportunities on medical mission
July 15, 2021
Capt. Adrian Mateos, officer in charge of Delta Wellness Innovative Readiness Training, teaches a class on “combatives” July 10, 2021. Mateos was responsible for the entire training program during the two-week IRT.