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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.
Colorado Air National Guard members deploy to Japan
May 9, 2017
An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 120th Fighter Squadron, 140th Wing, takes off at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado on its way to Kadena Air Base, Japan for a deployment in support of the Theater Security Package.
New York Airmen in right place to manage serious car crash
May 9, 2017
Tech Sgt. Seth Stucker, first sergeant assigned to the 274th Air Support Operations Squadron, New York Air National Guard, Syracuse, is one of two Airmen along with Tech Sgt. Brandon Mason, a support services specialist assigned to the 274th ASOS, who responded to the scene of a car accident outside of the main gate of Hancock Airfield, April 4, 2017. Stucker, who has a medical background in the Air Force, was first on the scene to render aid to the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle that crashed, until EMS and other local emergency services arrived.
ANG to name building in honor of former NGB Chief Craig McKinley
May 5, 2017
The Air National Guard's I.G. Brown Training and Education Center mixed-use facility, Buildings 418, 414A-B, is a 46,871 square foot classroom and dormitory facility for training and education at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in east Tennessee. The facility was constructed from August 2014 to January 2017.