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America Supports You: Group Helps Troops Trade Helmets for Hardhats
August 9, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Transitioning from the military into the civilian work force can be as simple as... MORE

Shane Anderson of Seattle registered with Helmets to Hardhats as he was preparing to transition from the Army back into the civilian work force. The organization helped him secure an apprenticeship with the International Union of Elevator Contractors Local 19.

Guard Border Mission 'Right Way to Do Business,' Chief Says
August 9, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The National Guard's mission at the southwestern U.S. border is a balance of shared... MORE

Program to help bridge gap between civilian and military pay
August 9, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The Reserve Income Replacement Program (RIRP), part of the 2006 National Defense... MORE

Ohio Air National Guard Selects New Chief of Staff
August 9, 2006 — COLUMBUS, Ohio - Brig. Gen. (Select) Robert Boggs, vice wing commander of the 121st Air Refueling... MORE

121st Air Refueling Wing Vice Wing Commander Col Robert L. Boggs being pinned as Brigadier General by the Ohio National Guard Adjutant General Major General Gregory L. Wayt and the Assistant Adjutant for Air, Major General A.J. Feucht at a pinning ceremony at Rickenbacker Air National Guard base on 31 July 2006.

Texas National Guard conducting relief operations
August 8, 2006 — CAMP MABRY, Austin, Texas - After nearly a week of rain, Vinton and Socorro, two small communities... MORE

A Texas National Guard Soldier helps a resident of Vinton, Texas, with some belongings after rising water swamped homes in the small west Texas town.

Air Guard pilots train in escape, evasion
August 8, 2006 — IDAHO CITY, Idaho (AFPN) - A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots from the Idaho Air National Guard's 190th... MORE

Lt. Col. Gus Kohntopp applies camouflage face paint to avoid being spotted by the enemy during the Idaho Air National Guard's combat survival training exercise near Idaho City, Idaho, on Aug. 6.

Special Forces Soldiers reflect on fallen Ohio Guard comrade
August 8, 2006 — GREEN, Ohio - In the early evening June 16, a group of about a dozen Soldiers from B Company, 2nd... MORE

Air National Guard Medical Service tackles critical surge capacity shortfall
August 7, 2006 — SNOWBIRD, Utah - The Air National Guard Medical Service is filling a critical need that many... MORE

An Airman tests equipment than can help identify potentially hazardous substances during Readiness Frontiers 2006 at the Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort in Utah on July 31, 2006.

Texas Army Guard aviators set for Iraq deployment
August 7, 2006 — FORT HOOD, Texas - The long slow months of combat training in the sweltering Texas summer heat has... MORE

Col. Vernon A. Sevier Jr. (left), of Houston, commander of the 36th CAB, and Command Sgt. Maj. Bradley Brandt (right) of Round Rock, Texas, case the brigade's colors for deployment to Iraq during an official send-off ceremony at the Leo Buckley Stadium in Killeen, Texas, July 30.

Blum: Army Guard enjoying big recruiting successes
August 7, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The Army National Guard is experiencing its biggest and longest-running recruiting... MORE

Michigan-Sierra Leone Partnership Moves Ahead with Multidisciplinary Engagements

Paraguayan President Awards Top Honor to Massachusetts National Guard General

AFRICOM, National Guard Chaplains Participate in Southern African Development Community Conference

North Carolina Guard Welcomes SPP Partners to Hurricane Response Exercise

Virginia Army Guard Soldiers, Tajikistan Conduct Battle Exchange Training