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Night takeoffs during PATRIOT North 19 simulate disaster
July 23, 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Five Utah sisters take five different military paths
July 10, 2019
The five Puro sisters of Utah took different paths to military careers. Left to right: Tiara, Air Force; Tambra, Army Guard, Tayva, Air Guard; Ty'lene, Army Guard; Taryn, Navy.

N.Y. Guard Soldiers remember Medal of Honor recipients
July 9, 2019
New York Army National Guard Lt. Col. William O'Brien, commander of the 1st Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, leads his unit in the relief of another outfit during the battle of Saipan, June 18, 1944. O'Brien would receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his leadership and actions during the largest Japanese suicide charge of the Pacific Theater July 6-7, 1944.