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Alaska Army National Guard aviation preps for new operations
June 3, 2019
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Franklin Bithos, battalion standardization pilot, and Capt. Anthony Rivas, commander, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Alaska Army National Guard, fly a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, April 26, 2019.  Soldiers with the Alaska National Guard from 1-207th conduct cross-country training flights during their final annual training as an air assault unit ahead of their pending transition to becoming a part of a larger general aviation support battalion, expected to finalize this year.

Ill. National Guard helps civilian agencies fight flooding
June 3, 2019
A team of Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 123 Field Artillery Regiment, work on levees near Winchester, Illinois, on June 1, 2019. Hundreds of Illinois Guard Soldiers are on state active duty assisting with flood control.

Guard ‘ready’ as 2019 hurricane season kicks off
May 31, 2019
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gary Chavis of the North Carolina National Guard monitors the loading of cots and blankets onto a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle (LMTV), which were transported to various American Red Cross shelters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Fayetteville, Sept. 16, 2018.

W. Va. National Guard, partners rehearse for football games
May 30, 2019
A member of the West Virginia National Guard's 35th Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass Destruction) prepares equipment alongside support agency personnel May 29, 2019, during Operation Rough Ride, a West Virginia University full-scale exercise involving more than 150 participants from 25 departments/units representing 18 organizations from campus, local, state and federal agencies.

Idaho Soldiers join other units in Fort Irwin exercise
May 29, 2019
Idaho Army National Guard 1st Lt. Jermey  Raush and 1st Lt. Tyler June, engineer officers with the 116th Brigade Engineer  Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, make a plan to get their platoon of Bradley Fighting Vehicles' Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Equipment installed May 25, 2019, at the National training Center at  Fort Irwin, Calif. The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team is training at the NTC May 24 to June 20 to prepare for its wartime missions.

New York National Guard prepares for 2019 hurricane season
May 28, 2019
New York Air National Guard Lt. Col. Tammy Street, center, commander of the logistics readiness squadron of the 109th Airlift Wing, moves a placard representation of a wing response element during the rehearsal of New York military forces plan for a coastal storm during the 2019 hurricane season at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in New Windsor, N.Y., May 23, 2019.

Oklahoma, Kansas Guard support communities after storms
May 28, 2019
Oklahoma Army National Guard Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 279th Infantry Regiment, stack sandbags in order to slow the spread of flood waters in Sandy Parks, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Army National Guard Soldiers assisted several Oklahoma communities following record rain fall and numerous tornados. The Guard members' assistance included swift water rescue, filling and distributing sandbags and delivering purified, potable water.

La. National Guard dedicates memorial to fallen Soldiers
May 24, 2019
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Maj. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis, adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, render a salute as taps is played during a ceremony for a new monument honoring fallen Louisiana Guardsmen at Louisiana Veterans Memorial Park in Baton Rouge on May 21, 2019.

N.Y. Air Guard's 106th Rescue Wing welcomes new aircraft
May 23, 2019
A HC-130J Combat King II sits on display at the 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard, during a ceremony at Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, Westhampton Beach, N.Y., May 17, 2019. The 106th presented the rescue aircraft during a ceremony, the first of four brand new such models from Lockheed Martin, the first time in the 106th's 72 year history that is has received aircraft new from the manufacturer and will be flown by the wing's 102nd Rescue Squadron, the oldest unit in the Air National Guard.

Pennsylvania Guard cyber branch supports primary election
May 23, 2019
Maj. Christine Pierce, left,  Pennsylvania cyber branch chief, works with branch senior noncommissioned officer Sgt. 1st Class Elefterios E. Ginnis May 21 at the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) to ensure the integrity and security of the commonwealth’s primary elections.