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151st Infantry Regiment adapts training to COVID-19 pandemic
August 5, 2020
During an integrated live-fire, Indiana National Guard Soldiers with the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s 151st Infantry Regiment completed mortar table five, a practice qualification exercise, at Camp Atterbury, Edinburgh, Indiana, July 21, 2020.
Northern Lightning: Vermont Guard Airmen train in Wisconsin
August 5, 2020
Airmen assigned to the 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont Air National Guard, deploy to Volk Field, Wisconsin, for Operation Northern Lightning, Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vt., Aug. 3, 2020. A C-130 assigned to the 146th Airlift Wing, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, flew the Green Mountain Boys to partake in a two-week exercise where they will train on combat operations involving the F-35A Lightning II.
KC-135 crew finds missing mariners on Pacific island
August 5, 2020
National Guard members from the 203rd Air Refueling Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, and the 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, locate three missing mariners on Pikelot Island during a search and rescue mission in the Federated States of Micronesia southwest of Guam, Aug. 2, 2020. The mariners had departed Puluwat Atoll July 29 aboard a 23-foot white and blue skiff, headed approximately 21 nautical miles to Pulap, Chuuk.
174th MXG hot-pit maintenance key to Northern Strike 20
August 4, 2020
An A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 107th Fighter Squadron, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., taxis to a hot-pit maintenance area set up by the 174th Maintenance Group Detachment 1 maintenance team during Northern Strike 20 in Alpena, Mich., July 27, 2020. The 174th MXG Det. 1 is a New York Air National Guard unit located in Ft. Drum, New York. The unit has provided maintenance support to Northern Strike since 2012. Northern Strike is the National Guard Bureau’s largest joint, multi-component exercise and takes place at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center in Northern Michigan.
Air and Army Guardsmen help hikers injured in rockslide
August 4, 2020
Washington Army National Guard helicopter crew members from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 140th Aviation, assist 2nd Lt. Darien Konzelman, 194th Intelligence Squadron, with an injured hiker Aug. 2, 2020, near Packwood, Wash. Konzelman was bear hunting with friends when rockslides injured Konzelman and other hikers.
Remaining motivated is key for Wisconsin Guard in pandemic
August 4, 2020
The coin that all Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers and Airmen mobilized for the COVID-19 pandemic response will receive for their service. At its peak, the Wisconsin National Guard mobilized more than 1,400 troops to support Wisconsin’s response.
NYNG aviation Soldiers hone land navigation skills
August 4, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 142nd Aviation Regiment, find their way during land navigation training as part of their annual training at the Guilderland Range in Guilderland, New York, July 29, 2020.
South Carolina National Guard tests mission-critical members
August 4, 2020
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. James Bosley, program manager for the 169th Fighter Wing's Drug Demand Reduction Program at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., performs a nasopharyngeal swab on a mission-essential Airman with the South Carolina Air National Guard.
Guard, active-duty and reserve forces help Texas hospitals
August 4, 2020
Maj. Gen. Tracy Norris, the adjutant general of Texas, left, talks with Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, U.S. Army North commanding general, at the Texas State Operations Center in Austin, Texas, July 16, 2020. While there, military and civilian leaders strengthened their partnership and discussed the joint military COVID-19 operation in support of federal efforts and the state.
Esper praises outgoing NGB chief, welcomes incoming chief
August 3, 2020
Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper presides as Army Lt. Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, director of the Army National Guard, is promoted to general and takes over as 29th National Guard Bureau chief during ceremonies at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., Aug. 3, 2020. Hokanson succeeds Air Force Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, who has served as NGB chief since August 2016.