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Airmen wed during Hurricane Irma prior to rescue operations
September 10, 2017 — ORLANDO, Fla.– Hurricane Irma’s storm-force winds couldn’t prevent two people from pledging their... MORE

Senior Airman Lauren Durham and Michael Davis exchanged vows at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando before heading out on search and recovery missions

Citizen-Warrior: Tennessee Army Guard member hones analyst skills in military, civilian careers
September 1, 2017 — CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Staff Sgt. Krystle Parks, an intelligence analyst with the Tennessee Army... MORE

Intel analyst is Citizen-Warrior for September, 2017

Operation Potomac gives North Carolina Guard members a view of U.S. government
August 23, 2017 — WASHINGTON - The military, including the North Carolina National Guard (NCNG), is one of many... MORE

NCNG visits U.S. government

3 pilots are teammates in the Guard but opponents in the sky
August 22, 2017 — OKLAHOMA CITY – It's common for Guard members to grow up in a unit and stay there for most of their... MORE

Guard colleagues but civilian competitors

New York City said goodbye to National Guard with massive parade in August 1917
August 22, 2017 — NEW YORK - Before they walked down the gangplank onto French soil in April 1918; 25,000 New York... MORE

Massive 1917 parade for New York Guard member

Army Guard vocalist makes the rounds in National Capital Region
August 16, 2017 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Army Maj. Edgar I. Quinones-Marin, a program analyst at the National Guard Bureau,... MORE

National Guard singer

Son of fallen Virginia National Guard officer enlists on parents' 20th anniversary
August 15, 2017 — RICHMOND, Va. – Twenty years after his parents got married and 10 years after losing his father in... MORE

Son of fallen Soldier enlists

Identical twins serve together in Air National Guard
August 11, 2017 — MANSFIELD, Ohio - Raven Hull, a personnel specialist at the 179th Airlift Wing here, and Lakota... MORE

Lakota Hull, left, and Raven Hull, twins pose for photo

100 years ago: Entire National Guard drafted for World War I
August 3, 2017 — ARLINGTON, Va. - On this date 100 years ago, August 5, 1917, the entire National Guard was drafted... MORE

Gearing up for World War I

Civil War-era cannonballs demolished at National Guard's Fort Indiantown Gap
August 3, 2017 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa.- Civilian authorities called upon the U.S. Army and the Pennsylvania... MORE

Old cannonballs destroyed at Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA

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