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North Carolina Guard family joins the recovery effort
September 16, 2018
U.S. Air Force Col. Shawne Johnson, 145th Airlift Wing Emergency Operation Center (EOC) day-shift director, maintains telecommunications during Tropical Storm Florence, Sept. 15, 2018. Col. Johnson’s position as the EOC day-shift director is to manage and maintain assets and people while channeling communication up and down the North Carolina Air National Guard in response to Tropical Storm Florence.
Ahoy! N.Y. Guard CST trains to deploy by landing craft
September 11, 2018
New York Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Myers, from the 2nd Civil Support Team, drives an ATV off of New York Naval Militia LC-350, a landing craft, at Peebles Island State Park in Waterford, Sept. 8, 2018. Meyers and the 2nd CST conducted joint training with the Naval Militia to deploy a biological, chemical, and radiological survey team using the Naval Militia's new LC-350.
27th Division Soldiers on Guard in closing days of WW I
September 11, 2018
Soldiers of the 107th Infantry, 27th Division, on guard at old French chatea east of St. Souplet, Nord, France on Oct. 19, 1918. The New York National Guardsmen of the 27th Division took tremendous casualties during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in the last 100 days of World War I. The fighting ended on Nov. 11, 1918.
Citizen-Warriors: Third of police force serves in Idaho Army Guard
September 10, 2018
Army Capt. Mike Barley, left, Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Hikley and Army Capt. Haily Barley serve in the Idaho Army National Guard, in addition to working as police officers with the Middleton Police Department, in Middleton, Idaho. The three make up nearly a third of the department's police force.
In Kuwait, a father and son reflect on their service
September 10, 2018
U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Andre Paille, a project manager with the 214th Engineering Installation Squadron, Louisiana Air National Guard, attached to U.S. Air Force Central, and his son, U.S. Army Capt. Joshua Paille, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 1109th Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group, attached to Task Force 22, had an opportunity to spend a day together at the airfield where Joshua Paille works at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Sept. 1, 2018.
Ga. Guard participated in 1958 Labor Day road safety blitz
August 31, 2018
Georgia Army National Guard Lt. Col. John P. Wallis identifies a roadblock position on a map for Georgia Guard Soldiers of the Elberton-based 950th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion.
For two Kentucky Guardsmen, service is the family business
August 31, 2018
U.S. Army Capt. William Parker and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Bryan Parker, activated members of the Kentucky Army National Guard 613th Engineering Facilities Detachment, serve as contract officer representatives for Area Support Group-Kuwait Directorate of Public Works at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, August 6, 2018.
Flu outbreak killed 45,000 U.S. Soldiers during World War I
August 30, 2018
Soldiers suffering from influenza at the hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, in 1918. Camp Funston was where the influenza epidemic which would kill more than 50 million people world-wide, including 675,000 Americans, first made a major appearance. Troops from the camp carried the virus to other Army bases during World War I.
Iowa Airman is direct descendant of Davy Crockett
August 28, 2018
U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Davy Crockett, 132d Medical Group laboratory NCOIC, shares a resemblance with his ancestor Davy Crockett's 1834 painting by Chester Harding.
New York's 27th Division fought first battle in August 1918
August 28, 2018
Soldiers of the 107th Infantry Regiment of the 27th Division waiting to head for the front lines and replace British troops near St. Gillis, France, on Aug. 12, 1918, in this U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. The Americans replaced season British troops and prepared to attack in the days prior to Aug. 30, 1918.