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Mississippi airlift wing used in Utah miner rescue
August 13, 2007
Members of the 172nd Airlift Wing in Jackson, Mississippi and the 190th Air Refueling Wing in Topeka, Kansas supply dunnage to load an emergency vehicle headed for the stranded miners in Utah on Thursday. The National Guard coordinated the emergency airlift mission which picked up the vehicle at Forbes Field in Kansas on Thursday.
Craig receives Bronze Star from Blum, Taylor
August 10, 2007
With Mississippi Congressman Gene Taylor (far right) and his wife Mitzi Craig looking on (far left), Sgt. 1st Class John Craig receives the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service from LTG H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, on Aug. 2 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.
Guard supports camp that helps at-risk youth
August 9, 2007
Campers listen intently to Air Guard Staff Sgt. David Fort as he teaches them about survival techniques after Fort led them on a two mile hike in the Roosevelt Forest in Colorado July 10, 2007. The youth had lunch on a cliff overlooking a waterfall before heading back to camp.
Missouri Air Guard airlifts near North Pole
August 9, 2007
Tech. Sgt. Kelly Kunkel from the Missouri Air National Guard's 139th Airlift Wing refuels a C-130 on the flight line at Kangerlussuaq Airport, Greenland.
Northern Grip: New York Air Guard supports far reaching science missions
August 2, 2007
A 109th Airlift Wing LC-130 Hercules is loaded with cargo at Summit Camp on the Greenland Ice Sheet July 24. The wing's gray and orange "skibirds" are the world's largest ski-equipped cargo aircraft.
Vaccine shots leave mark on Rio Grande Valley residents
August 1, 2007
Texas Army National Guard Spc. Stephanie Cardenas, an Emergency Medical Technician for Joint Forces Headquarters of San Antonio, gives a vaccination shot to four-year-old Jeremiah Burkett while he is comforted by his mother. The boy will be ready for pre-kindergarten this fall, at least as far as immunizations go, thanks to the free vaccinations offered in Brownsville during Operation Lone Star.
Knott first Guard Soldier to pick up the Pace
August 1, 2007
Lt. Col. Joseph Knott receives the Headquarters, Department of the Army Pace Award from Joyce Morrow on July 27 in the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.. Knott is the first National Guard Soldier to win the award in its 45 years. He won the award based on his work in 2006 on the Army Compatible Use Buffer Program.
Reserve wing will be first to host Guard associate
July 31, 2007
Col. James McCormack and Col. Jeffery Glass prepare for takeoff during their first duo commander mission July 26 at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. Colonel McCormack is the 137th Airlift Wing commander, and Colonel Glass is the 507th Air Refueling Wing commander. Colonel McCormack's Air National Guard wing is slated to stand up as a KC-135 Stratotanker associate wing affiliated with Colonel Glass's Air Force Reserve Command wing in late 2007. The merger is the first time an Air National Guard wing has associated to an Air Force Reserve wing.
Civilian hospital provides training for Texas National Guard medics
July 30, 2007
Spc. Manuel Chavarria (left) starts an IV on a patient in the Emergency Department of the Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital staff. The Texas National Guardsman trains in the civilian hospital during their drill weekends.
Leaders endorse Pakistan, National Guard partnership
July 26, 2007
Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense; retired Lt. Gen. Tariq Waseem Ghazi, Pakistan's former defense secretary; LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Marine Lt. Gen. Frances Wilson, president, National Defense University, talk about a possible National Guard State Partnership Program with Pakistan at a dinner at Blum's official residence at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., on July 25, 2007.