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Vigilant Guard 2008 training helps Beaufort Memorial Hospital sharpen skills
April 22, 2008
Guard Civil Support Team Supports Shelby County Fire Department During Vigilant Guard 08
April 22, 2008
JISCC Team
April 22, 2008
Pfc. Michael Becker, a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) specialist of the 230th Signal Company Tennessee Army National Guard, mans the Joint Incident Site Communications Capabilities (JISCC) main desk. The 230th has set up the JISCC in support of the Vigilant Guard exercise at the Mid-South Support Center, Millington. Becker, a Clarksville, Tenn. resident, keeps a visitors log, and answers the phone while helping servicemembers use the internet, or telephones in the JISCC.
West Tennessee Rocks...and the Guard Rolls; NG exercises a mock earthquake scenario
April 22, 2008
Local father, daughter support Vigilant Guard
April 22, 2008
James Colwell, the assistant fire chief for the city of Beaufort, S.C., and his daughter, Airman 1st Class Sarah Colwell of the 75th Security Forces Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, pose for a picture as two S.C. National Guard CH-47D Chinook helicopters drop off South Carolina Task Force One, urban search and rescue technicians, to support the National Guard's Vigilant Guard exercise taking place April 21 in Beaufort, S.C. The Vigilant Guard exercise here in S.C. involves 3,000 Guard members from across the country and hundreds of personnel throughout the host county of Beaufort, S.C., the S.C. Emergency Management Division and other military, government and non-government organizations.
NEADS ANG members return after deployment to Kyrgyzstan
April 21, 2008
Staff Sgt. Stephen Manley, a Northeast Air Defense Sector Security Force member returning from deployment, smiles at his daughter Morgan at the Syracuse International Airport March 14. In the unit's largest deployment ever, nearly 30 security force members deployed on a six-month tour to Manas Air Base, located in Kyrgyzstan, in September 2007.
Bosnia and Herzegovina emulates the National Guard
April 21, 2008
LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, on April 10, 2008, pauses to reflect at the Sarajevo street corner where on June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, considered the event that precipitated World War I, resulting in about 20 million deaths. In the aftermath of the death of Marshall (Josip Broz) Tito and the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, the Balkans were again plunged into violence in the 1990s that was ended by NATO intervention. The National Guard has contributed to the Balkan peace enforcement mission for nearly a decade and in Sarajevo military leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina say they would like to use the National Guard as one of the models for their armed forces.
Air Guard EMEDS team breaks new ground in Vigilant Guard
April 21, 2008
Tech. Sgt. David Betts, of the 187th Medical Group, assembles an electrical distribution panel in a field hospital in preparation for the Vigilant Guard 2008 exercise on April 19, in Beaufort, S.C. The hospital will be used by the expeditionary medical support team (EMEDS) which will practice responding to natural disasters during the 3-day National Guard exercise in Beaufort County, S.C.
Soldiers from Denmark observe Vigilant Guard 2008
April 21, 2008
Pvt. Rene Andersen, a soldier in the Denmark Army, packs his gear during Vigilant Guard 2008, a disaster response training exercise based in Beaufort County, S.C. on April 18, 2008. Andersen and a contingent of 40 Danish soldiers are participating in the exercise as observers. Many of the Danes served alongside South Carolina National Guard Soldiers in 2007 in Afghanistan in support of the Global War on Terror.
Media invitation to the largest preparedness exercise in South Carolina hosted by the National Guard
April 21, 2008