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The National Guard Supports California Wildfire Response
October 24, 2007
Chief of National Guard Bureau, LTG H Steven Blum, joins Brig. Gen. Peter Aylward, deputy director for Antiterrorism/Homeland Defense Joint Staff, and Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for Homeland Defense in a press conference at the Pentagon to discuss the National Guard and other military response to the wildfires that continue to burn throughout southern California on Oct. 23.
National Guard helps attack California wildfires by air and land
October 24, 2007
Bush: California Wildfires Constitute Major Disaster
October 24, 2007
Defense Department Continues Aid on California's Fire Front
October 24, 2007
Wyoming Air National Guard MAFFS units activated
October 23, 2007
North Carolina Air National Guard Activated to Help Fight California Forest Fires
October 23, 2007
Airmen from the North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing push a modular airborne fire fighting system onto a C-130 Hercules. The system is a series of pressurized tanks that hold 3,000 gallons of flame-retardant liquid. The retardant is dropped along the leading edge of a fire to block the spread of flames.
Possible Changes Eyed for Guard, Reserve Montgomery GI Bill
October 22, 2007
National Guard Brigades Alerted for Iraq, Afghanistan Deployments
October 22, 2007
U.S. Army Lt. Col. James Mosteller, center, commander of 1st Battlion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment, listens during a commanders meeting during annual training at Camp Shelby, Miss., April 19, 2007. Mosteller is in the North Carolina Army National Guard, and is 1 of approximately 1,800 soldiers from the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team who held their annual training at Camp Shelby. The 30th was one of seven National Guard brigades alerted by the Department of Defense Oct. 19 to serve as replacement forces for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The first of these brigades will not deploy until summer, and many will not deploy until late 2008 or 2009, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.
Relief! Air Force reduces, revamps ancillary training
October 19, 2007
The Advanced Distributed Learning Service Web site, accessible through the Air Force Portal, is where National Guard Airmen will go to complete ancillary training requirements, according to a new training plan announced in October. It's part of the Air Force's new Total Force Awareness Training, which revises and reduces nine training courses that took eight hours to complete down to three, 30-minute blocks. Officials estimate more than six million man hours will be saved annually.
Prime BEEF stamps hoof prints on Gitmo
October 18, 2007
Airmen from the 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron, Air National Guard, work on the foundation for the new commissions complex Sept. 18. The 474th broke ground Sept. 11 on the construction of the new Expeditionary Legal Complex where Military Commissions will resume pending court review.