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New Hampshire National Guard, El Salvador exchange emergency management best practices
May 24, 2012
Canada: Connecticut National Guard members train with multinational forces
May 23, 2012
Connecticut Army National Guard Soldiers from D Company, 1-169th Aviation Regiment, perform routine inspection and maintenance on the tail end of a UH-60 Black hawk helicopter at a Canadian army training site in Gagetown, New Brunswick, May 12, 2012. The Soldiers were training in Canada as a part of their two-week annual training exercise.
Honduras: Missouri Army Guard Soldiers celebrate building a schoolhouse for Hondurans
May 23, 2012
Army South's Task Force Tropic, commanded by Army Lt. Col. Robert L. Jones, Missouri Army National Guard, and Leonidas Matamoros, a community leader who had been instrumental in getting this project for his community, thanked each for their mutual help in building a school, in Micheletti, Honduras, May 8, 2012.
Afghanistan: Kentucky ADT builds relationship in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
May 21, 2012
Army Sgt. 1st Class Crystal Dunn, a member of Kentucky's Agribusiness Development Team 4, takes a moment to pose with local children in Afghanistan's Arghandab District on March 24, 2012. Dunn works as a project manager for the area's agricultural and business development programs, which seek to help local Afghan officials train their fellow Afghans on sustainable improvements.
Afghanistan: South Dakota Guard members train Afghan National Air Force firefighters on Jaws of Life
May 15, 2012
An Afghan National Air Force airman uses the spreader tool on the crash vehicle during vehicle extraction training exercise held here May 2, 2012. The training, facilitated by the South Dakota Army National Guard's 451st Engineer Detachment firefighters, provided hands on training of the tools and techniques to safely remove a victim from a vehicle accident. International Security Assistance Force Regional Command North supports Afghan National Security Forces in close coordination and collaboration in providing security and disrupting insurgent activities in order to protect the Afghan population.
Burundi: Texas National Guard members exchange best practices with Burundi soldiers
May 15, 2012
Burundi National Defense soldiers practice mortar man skills here, April 3,2012, with Texas Army National Guard Sgt. Tommy Cummings, Task Force Raptor, 3rd Squadron, 124th Cavalry Regiment. The Guard members conduct various military-to-military exchanges in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa to build partnerships with nations in East Africa.
Afghanistan: Guard members assist with large-scale inoculation project
May 14, 2012
A member of the Afghan National Civil Order Police secures a sheep for inoculation by an Afghan veterinarian while other members of the ANCOP and the International Security Assistance Force attempt to keep the other sheep in a central location. The 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team assisted their ANCOP partners during this operation. The 37th IBCT is deployed to northern Afghanistan in support of ISAF in order to build Afghan National Police capacity.
Guatemala: Utah, Missouri Army National Guard linguists keep communications open
May 11, 2012
Sgt. 1st Class Angel Lopez, with the Utah Army National Guard's 300th Military Intelligence Brigade, discusses the upcoming day with Guatemalan security forces while taking part in Beyond the Horizons 2012. Sgt. Lopez volunteered to go to Guatemala and utilizes his linguistic skills to communicate and coordinate with Guatemalan military and civilian personnel.
South Dakota National Guard and Suriname work together to improve emergency response capabilities
May 11, 2012
Guatemala: Arkansas Air National Guard engineers build partnerships, medical facilities
May 9, 2012
Air Force Staff Sgt. Joshua Denniston steps out of a trench that will eventually become the foundation of a women's clinic in the Guatemalan town of Tactic. Denniston, an Airman with the Arkansas Air National Guard's 188th Civil Engineering Squadron, is deployed to Guatemala in support of Beyond the Horizon 2012 and will spend two weeks working in Tactic to nearly double the available space of the Centro de Salud clinic. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Anthony D. Jones)