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Oregon Airman balances cycling With Air Guard mission
January 7, 2016
Oregon Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Dwayne Farr, assigned to the 142nd Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, poses with one of his bicycles at the air base public affairs office, Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon, April 7, 2013. Farr has been training and racing as an endurance cyclist during the past four years and was part of the Military World Games in Mungyeoung, Korea, Oct. 6, 2015.
Citizen-Soldier supports New Mexico Guard in his civilian capacity
January 4, 2016
Pfc. David Mathews, a Soldier with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 717th Brigade Support Battalion, poses next to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter used by the air medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) crews of Company C, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment. The MEDEVAC was staged at the airport in Carlsbad in order to provide timely response in case of an emergency warranting their launch. Mathews, an employee of Chandler Aviation, supported the Soldiers from his civilian capacity.
Buffalo Army National Guard Unit honored for unit video by New York's adjutant general
December 29, 2015
New York Army National Guard's 152nd Engineer Company, recipients of the New York National Guard's 2015 best unit video award for their production highlighting unit annual training, disaster response operations, unique engineer competitions and the organization's family readiness program.
Louisiana engineer company and families have their best Christmas ever
December 28, 2015
Staff Sgt. Chad Lawless, of Swartz, La., kisses his wife, Angela, and hugs his daughter, Lily, 4, and sons, Luke, 2, and Levi, 6 months. Lawless met Levi for the first time in person at the welcome-home event in Monroe, La., Dec. 24, 2015. More than 150 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 1023rd Engineer Company, 528th Engineer Battalion just completed a 10-month deployment to Kuwait, with additional missions to Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
New York Air National Guard will help NORAD track Santa on Christmas Eve
December 21, 2015
Staff Sgt. Tom Silva and Staff Sgt. Rachael Alcorta practice Santa tracking at the Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome. EADS plays a supporting role in NORAD's annual Santa tracking.
50 years ago, Air National Guard brought Christmas to troops in Vietnam
December 18, 2015
A U.S. Army ground crew unloads Christmas gifts from a Georgia Air National Guard C-97. The aircraft was one of approximately 80 Air National Guard planes to participate in Operation Christmas Star.
NORAD continues the 60-year tradition of tracking Santa
December 14, 2015
Volunteer tracker Matthew Harvey joined his mother Col. Tina Harvey to help answer emails from children and parents across the globe while at the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado., Dec. 24, 2014.
Pa. flight medic departs for fifth deployment
December 14, 2015
Pennsylvania Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Kwiecien, a flight medic with nearly 20 years of service, is deploying to Southwest Asia soon with Detachment 1, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation Regiment, where he will serve as noncommissioned officer in charge of the unit.
Meals, ready-to-savor: Student chefs show cooking chops with Army chow
December 10, 2015
Student chefs wait in anticipation as New York Army National Guard culinary specialists Sgt. Duwann Gordon, middle, and Pvt. Yorby Fernandez (right) judge a meal the students prepared using MRE food components at a Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) vocational education facility in Goshen, New York, Dec. 4, 2015. The students prepared meals with MREs as part of a New York Army National Guard educational challenge designed to test their skills and familiarize them with Army careers. The students chefs are, from left: Tyra Chase, a Middletown High School junior; Tushana Clarke and Nina Lucas, both juniors at Port Jervis High School.
Retired Air Force colonel and former POW speaks on the power of a positive attitude
December 10, 2015
Retired U. S. Air Force Col. Ed Hubbard presents a limited edition lithograph that he painted in the early 1980s to 153rd Airlift Wing Commander Col. Bradley Swanson. Hubbard detailed his experiences as a POW and provided insight on keeping a positive attitude during captivity.