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Red Bulls turn over remote area of Bad Pech before departure
July 13, 2011
U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, and Afghan National Army soldiers and Afghan National Civil Order Police, patrol the area outside of the Bad Pech District center in the Galuch Valley area May 4, 2011 in Laghman Province, Afghanistan.
W. Virginia Guard, active Army work together for equipment reset
July 13, 2011
Col. William C. Hoppe, project manager for Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, discusses the work done for his organization by the West Virginia Army National Guard at its maintenance facility in Eleanor, W.V. June 7, 2011.
Army Guard helicopter crash kills crew
July 11, 2011
Tennessee Army National Guard Soldiers refuel two OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters in northwest Iraq, Nov. 11, 2009. The Soldiers are with the Tennessee ARNG's 1-230th Air Cavalry Squadron, who maintain and operate a Forward Arming and Refueling Point, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
California Guard members participate in Operation Clean Sweep
July 8, 2011
Army Spc. Jose Martinez, with the California National Guard's 640th Aviation Support Battalion, sorts equipment as he helps with Operation Clean Sweep at Camp Taji on July 1, 2011.
SECDEF 'wanted to stress his appreciation' in call to Guard member
July 7, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Kelly Ann Pels, of Cincinnati, with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, United States Division - Center, receives a call from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, July 4, 2011, at Camp Victory in Baghdad. Pels was one of six deployed service members the defense secretary called to personally thank them for their service on Independence Day.
Brothers devote 50 Years to Iowa Guard
July 6, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Rich Fiedler, left, and his brother, Army Sgt. 1st Class Tim Fiedler, right, sit together June 14, 2011, on Combat Outpost Najil in Afghanistan’s Laghman province. The Fiedler brothers have more than 50 years of combined service in the Iowa National Guard’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment.
Colorado Army National Guard discovers, recovers missing hikers
July 6, 2011
A Colorado Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the High-altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site (HAATS) in Gypsum, Colo., lands on the summit of Missouri Mountain to transport rescuers to the scene where a father and daughter hiking team went missing June 28.
Washington Air Guard JTACs decisive in face of massive ambush
July 6, 2011
Senior Airman Michael McAffrey from Tacoma, Wash., a Joint Terminal Attack Controller with the 116th Air Support Operations Squadron, Washington Air National Guard, gives Afghan children bottles of water after completing a mission in Khanda Village, Laghman province, Afghanistan, June 18, 2011. Soldiers of the Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, Task Force Ironman, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 34th Mountain Division, TF Red Bulls, credited the efforts of McAffrey, as well as the other JTACs from the 116th ASOS, as being the difference in the Battle of Do Ab, May 25, and with saving many of the Soldiers’ lives that day.
National Guard units provides needed supplies, saves lives
June 24, 2011
A C-130 Hercules from the New York Air National Guard airdrops much-needed supplies to a forward operating base in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan, June 22, 2011. The New York ANG C-130 flew the airdrop mission in conjunction with another C-130 from the Alaska ANG. Airdrops help mitigate the danger of transporting supplies via convoy.
Deployed Guard members use medieval war games for entertainment
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Paul Hanson (left), a convoy escort team gunner with Alpha Company, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, brings his sword to bear against Army Sgt. John Oglesby, a convoy escort team gunner with Co. A, 1-163 CAB, in “The Pit” on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. Oglesby has been sparring for about 25 years and shares his hobby with fellow Solders while deployed.