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Kentucky ADT mobilizes for Afghanistan
May 10, 2010

Maine Guard conducts its first ever air assault in Afghanistan
May 10, 2010
Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment, of the Maine National Guard, prepare to board UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, after successful completion of their first combat air assault mission in Lalakeh village, Paktya Province, Afghanistan, May 1. During the mission, a weapons cache was found and destroyed, and multiple arms dealers and insurgent militants were captured.

New York MPs teach Iraqis emergency response techniques
May 10, 2010
Soldiers of the New York National Guard's 206th Military Police Company monitor the Iraqi Emergency Response Battalion search and seizure procedures during a training course held at the Basra Operations Center in Basra, Iraq March 15, 2010.

Colorado Guard joins Slovenia to train Afghan army
May 10, 2010

Connections with Hooligans continue after Ghana mission ends
May 7, 2010
Airmen with the North Dakota National Guard's 119th Wing Civil Engineer Squadron work on gutting a building in Accra, Ghana. The Airmen are on a
 two-week humanitarian mission as part of the Department of Defense-sponsored State Partnership Program.

Alabama Guard deploys first contracting team
May 6, 2010
(From left to right) Staff Sgt. Daniel Martin, Grant, Ala., Capt. Todd Floyd, Cullman, Ala., Capt. Jeffery Campbell, Madison, Ala., and Staff Sgt. Lesly "Rich" Richardson, Toney, Ala., stand ready to deploy as the Alabama Army National Guard's first contingency contracting team (CCT). The four men make up the 1960th CCT. It is the second CTT from the Army National Guard to deploy to Afghanistan.

Virginia's 'Bedford Boys' carry history into deployment
May 5, 2010
Dusty skies set in as a lone Virginia National Guard Soldier from 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, headquartered in Lynchburg, Va., looks down across a valley from the Ziggurat of Ur near the Tallil Airbase in Iraq. The 1/116th is currently deployed with the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Happy Hooligans complete mission in Ghana
May 4, 2010

After IED hit, 'only thing we couldn't fix was the air conditioning'
April 30, 2010
Members of the 1/172nd Cavalry assigned to the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) of the Vermont National Guard replace a damaged front axle on a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle at Forward Operating Base Vulcan, April 5, 2010. The team worked together and got the MRAP back in service after it was sidelined due to an Improvised Explosive Device.

How Sweet It Is
April 30, 2010
Local women receive training about how to manage bee hives for the Kapisa Honeybee Project that the Kentucky National Guard's Agricultural Development Team, attached to the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Vermont National Guard, is facilitating, April 6, 2010. The project involves supplying women in Kapisa with beehives and training on how to manage the hives so that they can harvest and sell the honey.