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Vermont seeks to expand partnership with North Macedonia
June 1, 2021
Maj. Gen. Greg Knight, Vermont's adjutant general, talks during a press conference May 27, 2021. Knight, along with Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, right, and Lindsay Kurrle, left, Vermont's secretary of commerce and community development, will spend several days in North Macedonia discussing building upon the State Partnership Program to explore economic development.

WING helps administer almost 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines
June 1, 2021
Wisconsin National Guard members assist with mobile vaccination team operations March 10, 2021, in Greendale, Wis. Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen have helped local health departments administer nearly 100,000 vaccines across Wisconsin since establishing the first mobile vaccination teams in late January.

NY Guard Airmen plant 'Survivor Tree' to commemorate 9/11
June 1, 2021
Left to right, Col. Paul M. Bishop, EADS commander; Rome Mayor Jackie Izzo; Col. Joseph F. Roos, 224th Air Defense Group commander, and Lt. Col. Josh Klemen, EADS Canadian Detachment commander, planted the 9/11 Survivor Tree seedling at EADS during a short ceremony May 26, 2021.  The seedling was taken from a tree found in the World Trade Center rubble in October 2001 and nursed back to health.

National Guard chief begins Memorial Day weekend by renewing ties with survivor group
May 28, 2021
Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief, National Guard Bureau, addresses attendees at the TAPS 27th Annual National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp, Arlington, Virginia, May 28, 2021.

Secretary of state, Greenland premier tour NYNG LC-130
May 28, 2021
New York Air National Guard Maj. Shay Price, an LC-130 navigator, briefs Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Greenland Premier Múte Bourup Egede, and other officials, about the LC-130s used by the wing to support climate science research on Greenland's Ice Cap at the Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, airport May 20, 2021. The 109th Airlift Wing operates from the airport when supporting National Science Foundation research in Greenland.

NYNG remembers sacrifice in Memorial Day ceremony
May 28, 2021
Air Force Maj. Gen. Timothy LaBarge, assistant adjutant general for New York, and Air Force Command Chief Master Sgt. Denny Richardson, state command chief for New York, render honors while taps is played during a Memorial Day service in Latham, N.Y., May 27, 2021. Each year the facility holds a service to recognize New York Guardsman who died the previous year.

Alaska Air National Guard helps rescue injured hiker
May 28, 2021
Pararescue personnel with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 212th Rescue Squadron transfer an injured hiker from a 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60 Pave Hawk to a Guardian Flight, AirMedCare air ambulance after a multiagency rescue from an avalanche near Donoho Peak in Wrangle-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve May 26, 2021.

LANG conducts tree drop to fight erosion, help wildlife
May 28, 2021
The Louisiana National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment, in support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, loads and transports bundles of recycled Christmas trees provided by Orleans Parish residents to rebuild marshland in Bayou Sauvage in New Orleans East May 26, 2021. The trees create new marsh habitats.

Kentucky National Guard helps vaccinate inmates
May 27, 2021
Kentucky National Guard Sgt. Okoarye Dishman, a medic, vaccinates a detainee at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville, Ky., May 20, 2021.

Washington National Guard prepares for wildfire season
May 27, 2021
Soldiers from the Washington National Guard take part in wildland firefighter training with the Washington Department of Natural Resources at Joint Base Lewis-McChord May 25, 2021. The Washington National Guard has partnered with the DNR since 2013 to conduct annual wildland firefighter training.