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Congolese teach important skills in disease prevention to U.S. service members during MEDLITE 11
April 29, 2011
KINSHASA, Democratic Repulic of Congo -- Congolese Col. Omer Djembe Kitenge, Coordinator of the fight against malaria for the DRC military, answers questions from U.S. military members during a Congolesian lead training at the Centre Superior Militiare Academy here today as part of MEDLITE 11. MEDLITE 11 is a joint medical exercise focused on aeromedical evacuation, to improve the readiness of U.S. Air Force and DRC personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Todd Wivell)

Iowa Guard Agribusiness Development Team saves Afghan man's eyesight
April 28, 2011
Spc. Daniel Kersbergen, security forces team member with the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team, administers an intravenous fluids bag to Roz Amin, an injured Afghan road worker, as Army Staff Sgt. Michael Martinez, the ADT's senior combat medic, supervises at the Sarkani District Center April 25, 2011.

Iowa Agribusiness Development Team helps youths get orchard training
April 27, 2011
Haji Hazrat Ali Gul says farewell to Army Master Sgt. Bill Dunbar, processing specialist for the 734th Agribusiness Development Team, Iowa National Guard, as Dunbar and other members of the ADT prepare to depart after checking on orchard training for high school students from the Shegal District at the Bar Chage Demonstration Farm north of Asadabad, Afghanistan, April 23, 2011. Gul owns the land the demo farm is on and worked with Dunbar to make it a fruit-production training site for high school students.

Total force brings aeromedical evacuation training to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
April 26, 2011
Air Force Lt. Col. June Oldman, the mission director for MEDLITE 11 exercise
here, speaks with local members of the media after the opening ceremony,
April 25, 2011. MEDLITE 11 is a joint medical exercise focused on
aeromedical evacuation training, to improve the readiness of the U.S. Air
Force and DRC personnel.

National Guard Soldiers, Ugandans participate in Atlas Drop 11
April 19, 2011
Ugandan  Defense Forces Soldiers, assisted by Army Staff Sgt. Ian Eggbert, a rigger with 197th Special Troops Company, Utah Army National Guard, attach a wing to a copter box aerial delivery system at Soroti Airfield, Uganda, during Atlas Drop 11, April 14, 2011. Atlas Drop, an annual joint aerial-delivery exercise sponsored by U.S. Army Africa that brings together U.S. Army personnel with counterparts from the Ugandan Peoples Defense Forces, is designed to enhance the readiness of both countries’ resupply and logistical capabilities, and will consist of classroom instruction and a field training exercise.

Montana Guard’s Outlaws on the road from dusk ’til dawn
April 18, 2011
Spc. John York, an M240B gunner and a Tulsa, Okla., native with Bravo Company, 163rd Combined Arms Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, looks out his gunner’s hatch during a convoy escort and security mission March 29. The 163rd CAB’s escort teams have been conducting convoy escort missions in support of Operation New Dawn since November.

Utah Guard’s 118th Sapper Company delivers security through counter-IED efforts
April 18, 2011
Improving driving conditions for local citizens, Soldiers of 1st Platoon,
118th Sappers, repair a road near Yaqubi Village, Khowst Province,
Afghanistan, March 24, 2011.

Kentucky Guard ADT helps Afghans open soybean facility
April 14, 2011
Haji Abdul Robate Qahir (far left), the Director of the Baston Seed Company,
cuts the ribbon across the entrance of his new soybean processing facility
in Bagram, April 2, 2011. Mohammad Sharif Sharif (back left), an engineer
with Soy Nutrition Services Afghanistan, Abdul Kabir Farzam (center), the
Parwan Director of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, and Shamir Amiri
(right), the Panjshir DAIL hold the ribbon for Qahir.

Army National Guard leaders visit Soldiers in Iraq
April 13, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. Raymond W. Carpenter, acting director of the Army National
Guard, listens as Army Capt. Donald Nodora, the 297th Area Support Medical
Company commander, California Army National Guard, briefs him on medical
procedures at the Troop Medical Facility on Contingency Operating Base
Basra, Iraq in early April.

Secretary Gates visits with United States Division–Center soldiers in Baghdad
April 12, 2011
Army Spc. Michael O'Keefe (left), Army Spc. Nicole Toothman (second from
left), and Army Spc. Christina Watson (center), along with other Soldiers of
the 116th Cavalry Brigade, listen as Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
(right) discusses current events and policy changes with troops serving in
support of Operation New Dawn under United States Division--Center at Camp
Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, April 7, 2011.