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Alabama National Guard, Romania Strengthen SPP Ties
May 27, 2022
Soldiers from the Alabama National Guard's 31st CBRN Brigade and Romania's 72nd NBC Defense Battalion cross-train on at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, April 24-30, 2022. Alabama and Romania have been partners under the Department of Defense National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program for almost three decades.
Pennsylvania National Guard aviators find lost hikers
May 27, 2022
Left to right, Staff Sgt. Kyle Waller of the Illinois National Guard’s Company B, 238th General Support Aviation Battalion; Staff Sgt. Anthony Bearoff of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Company B, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion; Staff Sgt. Robert Prigel, an instructor at the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Site; Chief Warrant Officer 4 Kyle Kephart, an instructor pilots at EAATS; and Ron Henry, also an instructor pilot at EAATS, in front of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Muir Army Airfield at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., May 25, 2022. (This photo was altered to obscure an ID card)
Arizona National Guard delivers for Operation Patriot Press
May 27, 2022
Soldiers from the Arizona Army National Guard’s 222nd Transportation Company returned home after hauling approximately 2 million pounds of munitions over 5,100 miles of desert, mountains and plains to support the U.S. Army’s Operation Patriot Press.
New York Air Guard conducts mid-ocean medical supply drop
May 26, 2022
Loadmasters assigned to the 106th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard prepare to toss medical supplies out of an HC-130J Combat King II search and rescue aircraft to the crew of a sailboat 1,200 miles east of Long Island in the Atlantic Ocean May 20, 2022, in this video capture image. The wing dropped medical supplies to the crew of the Namah to treat a crewmember with serious burns.
Oregon National Guard Airmen save lives in Idaho
May 26, 2022
Oregon Air National Guard Airmen with the 125th Special Tactics Squadron work alongside paramedics to prepare two patients for transport near Boise, Idaho, May 15, 2022. After completing a day of small arms training, the Oregon Airmen were in a convoy heading to Gowen Field, Idaho, when they witnessed an accident that injured two people on a motorcycle.
Hawaii Air Guard helps deliver baby formula from Europe
May 26, 2022
Senior Airman Jolan Besse, 721st Aerial Port Squadron loadmaster, assists Airmen as they load infant formula onto a C-17 Globemaster lll aircraft assigned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, May 22, 2022. The formula arrived from Switzerland as part of the U.S. government’s Operation Fly Formula to rapidly transport infant formula to the United States due to critical shortages there.
Fighting wildfires almost year-round, Guard preps for more
May 26, 2022
A Nebraska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter drops water from a 780-gallon bucket onto a smoldering hot spot near Arapahoe, Nebraska, April 9, 2022. National Guard units throughout the nation have been fighting wildfires already, before the traditional start of the wildfire season in June.
Idaho Army Guard conducts joint medevac, casualty training
May 26, 2022
Members of the Idaho Army National Guard’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st of the 148th Field Artillery Regiment, conduct air medical evacuation and casualty treatment with members of Detachment 1, Company Golf, 1st of the 168th General Support Aviation Battalion, at the Orchard Combat Training Center May 17, 2022.
Recent events, past decades have transformed Guard, chief says
May 24, 2022
Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, visits with Hawaii Army National Guard members, Maui, Hawaii, March 5, 2022. Hokanson testified May 24, 2022, before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense about operations of the Air and Army National Guard.
144th Fighter Wing trains for fighter jet integration in Alaska
May 24, 2022
Two F-15C Eagles from the 144th Fighter Wing and two F-22 Raptors from the 3rd Fighter Wing prepare to take off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, April 18, 2022, during an Aerospace Control Alert training scramble. It has been almost a decade since F-15 Eagles have sat alert in the region, protecting the airspace of the United States and Canada.