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Single dad in Texas driven to try Outstanding Warrior competition
March 15, 2017
Staff Sgt. Juan Nunez a security forces specialist with the 136th Security Forces Squadron, Texas Air National Guard, and his son Tristan pose for a photo at the 136th Airlift Wing’s Annual Children’s Christmas party Nov. 20, 2016 at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas. (
Wisconsin National Guard Soldier, a civilian police dispatcher, helps frantic dad deliver baby
March 13, 2017
Spc. Amanda Huenink, a medic with 135th Medical Company, applies a tourniquet to another Soldier during medical training at the unit’s armory in Waukesha, Wis., March 5, 2017. In her civilian job as a dispatcher, she helped a frantic father deliver his fast-arriving son,
'Basically, we get our hands dirty,' says female South Carolina Air Guard weapons handler
March 10, 2017
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sydney Byrd, 169th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron weapons loader, assists in affixing a bomb onto the wing of an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet on the taxiway at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, Nov. 22, 2016.
Two chief warrant officers in Washington are brothers in arms
March 9, 2017
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Justin Larson, left, and Chief Warrant Officer 5 Noel Larson pose for a photo in the cockpit of a Black Hawk helicopter they use for their aviation duties Feb. 12, 2017. The two brothers were promoted on the same day at the Aviation Readiness Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Deployments make New York Guard doctor better hometown physician
March 9, 2017
Army Lt. Col. William Lecates, who serves as a doctor in the New York Army National Guard and a kidney specialist in private practice, said that his service in the Army Guard has given him a greater breadth of medical knowledge benefiting both his civilian and military patients.
Ohio National Guard Soldier saves wandering toddler
March 6, 2017
Sgt. First Class Chris Meinhardt, an 18-year veteran of the Ohio Army National Guard, shows where he saw a young boy walking alongside Black Road in Butler County while on his way to work the morning of October 20, 2016. Meinhardt, the senior human resources sergeant for Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, stopped to help the child who had walked out of his grandmother’s house and wandered down the road.
Long commute doesn't keep this New York Army National Guard Soldier away from his unit
March 2, 2017
New York Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Mason, a member of the New York Army National Guard Medical Command, drives to drills in New York from North Carolina. Now Mason, age 55, is competing in the New York Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition.
South Carolina National Guard member protects the skies and streets
March 1, 2017
1st Lt. Jenna Pitcher and Staff Sgt. Lauren Rhodes assist U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Deborah Glenn, Company B, 1-151st Attack and Reconnaissance Battalion, South Carolina Army National Guard, on a AH-64D Apache helicopter at McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Eastover, South Carolina, August 4, 2015.