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Puerto Rico National Guard Rescues Hurricane Victims
September 19, 2022
Members of the Puerto Rico National Guard, 125th Military Police Battalion, rescue a man who had apparently gone out to try to find gasoline and was caught in a flash flood caused by Hurricane Fiona in Ponce, near Mercedita Airport in southern Puerto Rico. The hurricane knocked out power to the entire island.
New York Firemen to Represent Guard at Jungle Warfare School
September 19, 2022
Army Sgt. William Dunn, left, a member of the 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion, and Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy Miter, assigned to the 274th Air Operations Support Squadron, will represent the New York National Guard and the U.S. military at the annual international course taught at the Brazilian military's jungle warfare training school in Manas, Brazil. The New York National Guard has sent Soldiers and Airmen to the school since 2019 as part of a State Partnership Program agreement with Brazil's armed forces.
DC Air Guard Celebrates Air Force’s 75th Anniversary
September 19, 2022
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Daitin Stark, alert crew chief, 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard, places a fighter pilot’s helmet on a child at the Joint Base Andrews Air & Space Expo at Joint Base Andrews Air Base, Maryland, Sept. 17, 2022. The D.C. Air National Guard celebrated the Air Force’s 75th anniversary Sept. 17-18, 2022, with youth groups, families and veterans in attendance.
Vermont National Guard Honors Former POWs, MIAs
September 16, 2022
From left: Clyde Cassidy, Maj. Gen. Greg Knight, Richard H. Hamilton, William B. Busier, and Ralph McClintock pose for a photo after a POW/MIA Day observance at Camp Johnson, Vermont, Sept. 16, 2022. Knight is Vermont's adjutant general. Cassidy, Hamilton and Busier are former World War II POWs, and McClintock is a former crew member of the U.S.S. Pueblo, which was captured by North Korea in 1968.
New York Air Guard’s 109th Air Wing Conducts ‘Elephant Walk’
September 16, 2022
The 109th Airlift Wing conducted the unit’s first 'elephant walk' Sept. 10, 2022. An elephant walk is a U.S. Air Force term for the taxiing of military aircraft in close formation, often employed to project air power through the rapid deployment of multiple aircraft at once.
New Hampshire Air Traffic Controllers Increase Readiness
September 15, 2022
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Gabriel Fortier, a knowledge operations technician with the 260th Air Traffic Control Squadron, New Hampshire Air National Guard, fires a rifle during a weapons qualification course at Fort Devens, Mass., Sept. 11, 2022. The 260th participated in two days of firearms training to increase mobility readiness.
New York Guard Team Studies Domestic Ops Best Practices
September 15, 2022
New York Army National Guard Soldiers from the 53rd Troop Command work through a case study provided by Joint Staff Training Course instructors from U.S. Northern Command while taking a weekend-long course Sept. 10, 2022, at Camp Smith Training Site near Peekskill, New York. Thirty-four members of the Army and Air Guard and the New York Guard, the state’s volunteer defense force, participated in the training.
South Carolina Guard Builds Blackfeet Nation Senior Center
September 15, 2022
U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 169th Civil Engineering Squadron, South Carolina Air National Guard, use construction tools to help build a community center for Blackfeet Nation Native Americans at Heart Butte, Montana, Sept. 6, 2022. The temporary deployment is part of the squadron’s yearly Innovative Readiness Training.
South Carolina Air National Guard, Colombia Wrap Up Exercise
September 15, 2022
Airmen and F-16 fighter jets from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing and members of the Colombian Air Force pause for a photo Aug. 30, 2022, during the two-week Relampago VII exercise in Barranquilla, Colombia. South Carolina and Colombia are partners under the Department of Defense National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program.
Kosovo Security Force Members Earn U.S. Air Assault Badge
September 14, 2022
Pvt. Sead Berisha, a psychological operations soldier with the Kosovo Security Force, smiles as he receives his Air Assault badge from Lt. Col. Berat Shala, executive officer to the KSF commander, at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa, Sept. 9, 2022. Over 200 students participated in the 12-day course, which trains service members in sling load operations and rappelling.