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Oregon Youth ChalleNGe graduate becomes prosecutor
August 8, 2019 — BEND, Ore. – Three weeks after their induction into the Oregon National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe Program (OYCP), 160 cadets, having just finished their ‘red stage’ training, sit anxiously in several... MORE

Oregon District Attorney for Deschutes County John Hummel congratulates Jasmyn Troncoso after she completes the oath of office as she becomes the newest deputy district attorney for Deschutes County, Aug. 5, 2019, at the Oregon Youth ChalleNGe Program (OYCP) campus, Bend, Oregon. Troncoso graduated from OYCP in 2006 and credits the program to help change her life and the desire to become an attorney.

S.C. employers learn about life as a Citizen-Soldier
August 7, 2019 — EASTOVER, S.C. – Those serving in the National Guard and Reserves are referred to as Citizen-Soldier, due to their ability to serve in diverse civilian roles during the week and join their military... MORE

Eli Wishart, chair of the South Carolina Employment Support of the Guard and Reserve, prepares for a C-17 Globemaster III flight during the South Carolina National Guard hosted the South Carolina Employment Support of the Guard and Reserve Bosslift at McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Eastover, South Carolina, July 24, 2019.

Beware these social media scams which target the military
August 5, 2019 — WASHINGTON – Nowadays, you have to be cautious of everything you do online. Scammers are always trying to get money, goods or services out of unsuspecting people – and military members are often... MORE

Military experts are constantly warning service members about social media scams that can affect them and their families.

New York National Guard cooks test their culinary skills
August 1, 2019 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Ten cooks from the New York Army National Guard’s 642nd Aviation Support Battalion put their culinary skills and ability to feed troops efficiently under the microscope of... MORE

Pfc Victoria Clark, Spec Sorin Tatah, and Pfc Delmar Osorio-Ortiz, assigned to the 642nd Aviation Support Battalion, New York Army National Guard, cook inside the Containerized on July 27th for their annual training at Fort Indian Town Gap, PA as part of the Connelly competition evaluation.

Citizen-Warrior: Maryland Airman finds 'personnel' success
August 1, 2019 — MIDDLE RIVER, Md. – For Staff Sgt. Lorena Royale, a personnel specialist with Maryland National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters, working in the personnel field means actively seeking solutions to... MORE

Air Force Staff Sgt. Lorena Royale, a personnel specialist with the Maryland National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters, collects mail at the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore, Maryland, for distribution to the Joint Forces Headquarters’ personnel office.

West Virginia Airmen practice lifesaving skills
August 1, 2019 — BOONE COUNTY, W. Va. – When an aircraft goes down in enemy territory, it requires a clear head and the belief that one will make it out alive. With this mindset, aircrew members of the 130th... MORE

Two Airmen from the 130th Airlift Wing, McLaughlin Air National Guard Base, W.Va., look on as a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk assigned to Company C., 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion (MEDEVAC), Williamstown, W.Va., prepares to extract aircrew members from the field during combat survival training for Sentry Storm 19 held July 29, 2019, at the Hobet Mine site in Boone County, W.Va.

Airmen learn leadership lessons at Gettysburg battlefield
July 31, 2019 — GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Twenty-four 109th Airlift Wing Airmen took part in the wing’s annual professional development course at the Army’s Carlisle Barracks and the historic Gettysburg National Military... MORE

Members of the 109th Airlift Wing attend a Professional Development Course in Gettysburg,Pennsylvania, from July 8-11, 2019.

IANG physician devotes career to serving Soldiers, veterans
July 30, 2019 — CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. – At the end of a weathered gravel road stands a squadron aid station. Inside the tent covered in camo netting, field medics in body armor and combat helmets sit among neatly... MORE

Maj. Andrea Hickman, of Des Moines, Iowa, a family medicine physician, and Pfc. Madison Huggins, of Sioux City, Iowa, a combat medic specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Battalion, 113th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Iowa Army National Guard (IANG), check a simulated casualty for hemorrhaging in their initial trauma treatment during a 21-day eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) rotation at Camp Ripley, Minn., on July 23, 2019.

Army Guard program builds leader experience
July 30, 2019 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Army National Guard Soldiers looking for additional professional development opportunities may be eligible for the Army Guard’s High Performing Leader Program, which provides hands-on... MORE

Army Capt. Melody Howell, a logistics integrator with the South Dakota Army National Guard’s 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, speaks about her experience with the Army National Guard’s High Performing Leader Program while at the Herbert R. Temple Jr. Army National Guard Readiness Center, in Arlington, Virginia, July 10, 2019. As part of the HPLP, Howell was assigned to Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, where she gained experience in coordinating strategic-level logistics operations for the Army Guard.

Alaska Guard members in Master Fitness Trainer Course
July 26, 2019 — JOINT BASE RICHARDSON-ELMENDORF, Alaska – Twenty Alaska Army National Guard and active-duty U.S. Army Soldiers are participating in the Master Fitness Trainer Course that was offered here by... MORE

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Andrew Estabrook, left, 2nd Brigade, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, and Alaska Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Innocent Bennett, 297th Infantry Battalion, practice physical fitness training at Buckner Fitness Center on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as part of the Master Fitness Trainer Course July 24, 2019. The MFTC trains selected Soldiers in all aspects of the Army's Physical Readiness Training system. Once qualified, the trainers advise Soldiers on physical readiness issues and monitor unit and individual physical readiness programs.

Educators take flight to learn about Wash. National Guard
July 26, 2019 — JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. – Given the amount of time educators spend with young adults, they often serve as the best recruiters for the Washington National Guard. That’s why it’s critical they... MORE

Melissa Boudreau, right, Career and Technical Education director and Denise Prescott, administrative assistant from Kelso High School pose with a Black Hawk helicopter at Grays Army Airfield, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., on June 24, 2019. The ride was part of an educator lift conducted by the Washington Army National Guard’s Recruiting and Retention Battalion. The purpose of the event is to educate attendees on the Washington National Guard’s benefits and programs.

Ky. Air Guard is home to DoD's only search-and-rescue dog
July 24, 2019 — LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In 2010, Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard deployed to Port-au-Prince, the capital and most populous city of Haiti, in response to a magnitude 7 earthquake that impacted... MORE

Callie, a search and rescue K-9 for the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, participates in Patriot North, an annual domestic operations exercise designed to provide natural disaster response training at Fort McCoy, Wis., July 17, 2019.

Night takeoffs during PATRIOT North 19 simulate disaster
July 23, 2019 — VOLK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Wis. – It’s pitch black. The sun has set and the lights are out on the flight line July 17 at Volk Field Air National Guard Base, Wisconsin. Only a few dim lights... MORE

U.S. Air National Guard members from the 136th Airlift Wing Contingency Response Flight load equipment to a C-130 Hercules July 18, 2019, at Volk Field Air National Guard Base in Camp Douglas, Wis. The training took place in low-light conditions to allow familiarization and safety training using night vision equipment.

Counterdrug analyst finds purpose through tragedy
July 22, 2019 — CINCINNATI, Ohio – She's working through a loved one's loss — it's arduous and never stops. She pushes the pain aside, like rolling a boulder nearer the top of a hill only for it to roll back down... MORE

Ohio Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Chelsea Lovelace, an analyst for the Ohio National Guard’s Counterdrug Task Force, stands for a photo at the Cincinnati Police Department’s Narcotics Division. Lovelace lost her father to a morphine pill overdose and now works to get drugs off the streets of greater Cincinnati.

Idaho Army National Guard Soldier plays Carnegie Hall
July 22, 2019 — BOISE, Idaho - There’s an old joke that a couple on a New York City street once asked legendary classical violinist Jascha Heifetz how to get to Carnegie Hall. Without missing a beat or looking up, he... MORE

Idaho Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 Micah Strasser poses for a photo next to his timpani during a dress rehearsal for a Millennial Choirs and Orchestras performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall July 11, 2019.

Puerto Rico's 'port dawgs' handle nitty-gritty on tarmac
July 17, 2019 — MUNIZ AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Puerto Rico – Despite the mission, task or the natural disaster/emergency, one constant remains on the concrete plateau of Muniz Air National Guard Base – the "Port... MORE

Day or night, aircraft loading operations, including personnel and their equipment, keep the mission moving in support of domestic operations at Muniz Air National Guard Base for the Vigilant Guard Exercise.

Joint training helps the community and servicemembers
July 16, 2019 — NORWICH, N.Y. – As community members come to Norwich High School to receive no-cost health care during the Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training July 11-20, the first faces they see are... MORE

Patient administrators with the Greater Chenango Care Innovative Readiness Training check-in patients July 15, 2019, at Norwich High School, Norwich, New York.

Idaho Army, Air Guard members earn air assault badges
July 15, 2019 — BOISE, Idaho – Two Idaho National Guard members graduated from the U.S. Army’s Air Assault School June 28 at Camp Rilea, Oregon. Idaho Army National Guard Soldier Cadet Porter Haux and Idaho Air... MORE

Army Soldiers take part in the rappelling portion of Air Assault School at Camp Rilea, Warrenton, Oregon, June 27, 2019.

Joint forces provide no-cost medical care in New York
July 12, 2019 — HOMER, N.Y. – More than 50 Wisconsin Air National Guard members assigned to the 115th Fighter Wing will be providing care to the citizens of New York July 11 - July 20 as part of an Innovative... MORE

Airmen assigned to the 115th Fighter Wing, Madison, Wisconsin, board an Illinois Air National Guard C-130 Hercules for transport to New York July 9, 2019, for the Greater Chenango Cares and Healthy Cortland Innovative Readiness Training.

Air wing member delivers baby on Washington road shoulder
July 11, 2019 — CAMP MURRAY, Wash. — Delivering babies is not what Senior Airman Travis Cunningham does on a regular basis but on May 13th, Mother’s Day, that’s what he was called upon to do. While on duty as a... MORE

Senior Airman Travis Cunningham(left), 194th Intelligence Squadron, poses with a father and his newborn child near Winthrop, Wash., May 13, 2019. Cunningham, also a Washington State Trooper, helped deliver the baby on the side of the road after a traffic stop turned into a medical emergency.

Iowa Air Guard’s 132nd Security Forces Squadron Conducts Annual Training in Hawaii

Wisconsin Air Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing Partners With UW Health for Medical Airmen Training

Connecticut Army Guard Partners With Coast Guard to Dislodge Beached Buoy

Minnesota Guard Among First to Field Army’s Newest M250 Automatic Rifle

Soldier’s Medal Awarded to Georgia Guardsman Who Pulled Driver From Burning SUV