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National Guardsmen Help Battle Wildfires in Four States
May 16, 2007
Stressed to the Seams, Alaska Shield still holds its Northern Edge
May 16, 2007
Attaches Survey U.S. Disaster-Response Capabilities
May 15, 2007
Air Force Maj. Gen. Bill Etter, director of strategic plans and policy for the National Guard Bureau, talks with attaches prior to their visit to the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind., where more than 2,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of state and federal emergency response agencies worked through the disaster scenario of a 10-kiloton nuclear explosion in Indianapolis. Attaches from Serbia, Jordan, Kenya, Tunisia, Bolivia and Hungary, walked through the stages of the exercise, receiving briefs and asking questions of those participating.
Simulated terrorist threat trains military, civilian agencies
May 15, 2007
Members of the National Guard's civil support team board the USNS Henry J. Kaiser in biohazard suits here May 11 to investigate a simulated report of suspicious chemicals aboard during an exercise scenario for Alaska Shield/Northern Edge 2007. The civil support team worked in conjunction with the Seward police and fire departments, the Coast Guard, the FBI, and many other organizations to practice interagency coordination in an emergency situation. AKS/NE 07 is a State of Alaska/US NORTHCOM sponsored homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities exercise; part of the national-level Ardent Sentry/Northern Edge 07.
Chief: National Guard State Partnership Program can help keep a broken promise
May 14, 2007
LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, pauses at a plaque honoring one of the two National Guard divisions that liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany in April 1945. The general visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site in Germany on May 6, 2007, en route to conferences of the National Guard's State Partnership Program (SPP) being held in Germany and in the Balkans. "It helps me remember why we do what we do and why it's important," he said. "The Guard has throughout its entire history been responsible for saving lives and preventing suffering and returning abnormal conditions to normal. We do it at home and we do it all around the world. We've done it for over 367 years, and we continue to do it today, and we'll do it as long as there's a United States of America." The SPP, which fosters cooperation via military, socio-political and economic conduits at local, state and national levels through 56 partnerships between states or territories and foreign countries, can help prevent more tragedies, he said.
Vigilant Guard: Voices of experience add to the training
May 14, 2007
Mothers wore combat boots and gas masks on their special day
May 14, 2007
Illinois Army National Guard Sgt. Celia Rodriguez was a mom wearing a protective mask on Mother's Day while taking part in the National Guard's training exercise Vigilant Guard. She was conducting decontamination operations at the Indiana National Guard's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center.
Members of Air Guard medical groups unite for Vigilant Guard
May 14, 2007
Air National Guard medical technicians from the Illinois National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) evaluate a role-playing victim of a collapsed building for injuries in mid-May as part of the National Guard training exercise Vigilant Guard in Indiana.
Hands that held weapons now hold hope
May 12, 2007
National Guard cleaning up Greensburg
May 10, 2007
Members of the 134th Air Control Squadron, Kansas Air National Guard, operate heavy equipment near the courthouse of Greensburg, Kan., May 8, 2007. The Airmen worked to free a forklift that had been stuck in the mud. The building was one of the few left standing after a massive tornado decimated the town May 4. Approximately 400 National Guardmembers have been called up to assist with the cleanup, provide security and perform other disaster response functions.