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Texas National Guard Soldiers enhance combat readiness during NATO exercise
September 20, 2021
Participants from 12 NATO allied forces and local citizens paid homage to the 77th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden by gathering at a series of drop zones across the Netherlands and Belgium to observe one thousand Soldiers parachuting from U.S Air Force C-130s and allied force aircrafts during Falcon Leap.
Minnesota National Guard supports Afghanistan evacuation
August 24, 2021
1st Lt. Michelle Jaeger, a platoon leader with the Minnesota National Guard's A Company, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 194th Armor Regiment, interacts with Afghan children as part of operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport Aug. 21, 2021. Minnesota Soldiers are providing humanitarian assistance to U.S. citizens, special immigrant visa holders, and their families.
New York Air Guard joins NATO search and rescue exercise
August 11, 2021
Pararescue Airmen assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing prepare for a jump into the Atlantic near the Azores during ASAREX 2021, a NATO search and rescue exercise July 27-30, 2021.
COVID-19 adds intensity to Golf Company MEDEVAC mission
August 9, 2021
A Task Force Phoenix medevac crew from G Company, 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), known as DUSTOFF, at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The fully vaccinated crew took extra precautions during a medevac mission in which they transported a severe COVID-19 patient to higher care. Clockwise from top left, emergency critical care nurse Maj. Cody McDonald, flight medic Staff Sgt. Jose Bulow, crew chief Sgt. Dena Lee and pilot 1st Lt. James Pettigrew.
Updated electronic warfare course resumes at Camp Buehring
July 26, 2021
Sgt. Ismael Pulido, electronic warfare NCO, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Anthony Meneely, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Douglas Montgomery discuss Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Warfare system training at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. Pulido, Meneely and Montgomery are the Task Force Phoenix Cyberspace Electromagnetic Activities cell.
National Guard support critical to U.S. European Command
July 22, 2021
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Justin Sachariason, left, a Soldier assigned to the Florida Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, instructs 1st Lt. Almir Sarac, a soldier with the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, how to shoot the M4A1 carbine rifle at Manjaca Training Area, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 19, 2021.
75th Troop Command supports SOUTHCOM at Tradewinds exercise
July 12, 2021
A Soldier participating in a Tradewinds 21 combined forces jump prepares to land at Airbase London, Guyana, June 20, 2021. Tradewinds 21 is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored Caribbean security exercise with partner nations in the ground, air, sea and cyber domains.
130th Field Artillery Brigade improves air threat tracking
July 7, 2021
Capt. David Sanders and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Anthony Calanni of the 130th Field Artillery Brigade, Task Force Spartan, outside an AN/TPQ-53 command and control shelter.
25 Years Later: Remembering Khobar Towers bombing
June 25, 2021
On the night of June 25, 1996, a bomb was detonated near the Khobar Tower housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Airmen and injuring more than 400 U.S. and international military members and civilians. The towers housed coalition forces supporting Operation Southern Watch, a no-fly zone operation in Southern Iraq.
Airmen help care for Moroccan children during African Lion
June 25, 2021
U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Eric Cielinski, a physician assistant with the 151st Medical Det-1, provides medical care in the pediatric section of the Military Medical Surgical Field Hospital in Tafraoute, Morocco, June 12, 2021, during African Lion 2021. U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual exercise was hosted by Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal June 7-18.