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New York National Guard members sandbagging areas around Lake Ontario
May 16, 2017
Airmen assigned to the 107th Attack Wing of the New York Air National Guard fill sandbags at the Kendall, N. Y. town garage on May 11, 2017, as part of the New York National Guard response to high water levels in Lake Ontario which resulted in local flooding. Between May 3 and May 13, 323 New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen filled 239, 239,703 sandbags at six locations in counties along the lake.

Virgin Islands National Guard Soldiers preparing for Vigilant Guard
May 15, 2017
Virgin Islands National Guard service members and visiting Title 32 and Title 10 forces plan and coordinate operations in the joint operations center at the Leonard B. Francis Readiness Center on St. Thomas, VI, May 14, 2017. The JOC will serve as the main operations hub for Vigilant Guard 17-03, a disaster response exercise hosted by VING and U.S. Northern Command.

Puerto Rico National Guard gives scoop on helicopter buckets to its state partners
May 12, 2017
Guard members from Puerto Rico answer questions about helicopter bucket use in forest fires for a visiting delegation from their visitors in the State Partnership Program in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Colorado National Guard flies flood victims to safety
May 12, 2017
A Colorado National Guard Black Hawk helicopter crew from Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colo., assists with evacuations during the Beulah Flood in Pueblo County, May 11, 2017.

Indiana's 81st Troop Command joins in national disaster exercise
May 11, 2017
National Guard members take part in a crowd control exercise for Exercise Guardian Response 17 at the Jennings County Fairgrounds May 7, 2017. Simulated riots were staged in order to prepare first responder groups to react to the immediate  consequences of a major crisis.

Indiana National Guard unit rehearses with partner Slovakia during Saber Junction 17 exercise
May 11, 2017
Maj. Gen. David Wood, commanding general, 38th Infantry Division, and Sgt. Maj. James Martin, command sergeant major, 38th Infantry Division, visit the operations center during Saber Junction 17 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany May 4, 2017.

National Guard chief visits Northern Lightning exercise at Wisconsin's Volk Field
May 10, 2017
Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, listens to a brief about the F-35 joint strike fighter's capabilities during a visit to Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center on May 5, 2017, to observe Northern Lightning, an annual counterland training exercise that began May 1 and will end May 12.

Two Wyoming Guard members get rescue award for Afghanistan mission
May 10, 2017
Wyoming Army National Guard soldiers Staff Sgt. Derrick Perkins, a medic, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bryan Herget, a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot, receive the Dustoff Association’s Rescue of the Year award for their heroic effort that saved the lives of five critically wounded Soldiers during a medevac mission in Afghanistan in 2015.

Illinois Army National Guard takes third in Gainey Cup scout contest
May 9, 2017
Army National Guard competes in the stress-shoot portion of the Gainey Cup competition held at Fort Benning, Ga., on May 4, 2017.

Wyoming National Guard and Tunisia continue to perfect partnership
May 9, 2017
In 2016, the Wyoming National Guard began the Humanitarian Mining Action mission, a State Partnership Program-leveraged program, in Tunisia. The HMA is a Department of Defense program that provides education and training in finding, clearing and securing land mines and other explosive remnants of war. In March 2017, a team of engineers from the Wyoming Army National Guard traveled to Tunisia to assist with advising them on building a culvert that would act as a training site in finding and clearing culverts of explosive hazards.