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Texas National Guard patch ceremony to initiate Army of one
August 15, 2016
Soldiers from Alaska National Guard’s Bravo Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 143rd Infantry Regiment, salute their parent Texas National Guard battalion for the last time during a ceremony held at Camp Mabry in Austin, August 13, 2016. The battalion was identified to partake in the Army's Associated Unit Pilot Program which pairs select National Guard and Reserve units with Active Duty units to train and build readiness together, enabling the Army to provide more combat ready formations to combatant commanders. As a part of the restructure process and the pilot program, the battalion’s two out of state airborne companies will switch their Airborne status with two Texas Army National Guard infantry companies.
Louisiana Guard continues flood fight
August 15, 2016
Soldiers with the Louisiana National Guard help citizens out of the back of a high-water vehicle on Airline Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana after being rescued on Millerville, Aug. 14, 2016. The LANG has rescued more than 3,400 people and 400 pets during search and rescue operations since operations began 48 hours ago.
Soldiers, Airmen helping northwest Wisconsin recover from July storms
August 12, 2016
1st Lt. Joshua Steadman supervises Spc. Michael Baldwin, both members of the 229th Engineer Company, while using an excavator to backfill a washed-out culvert along Eade Road in Ashland County, Wisconsin Aug. 9, 2016, as part of flood recovery operations.
New Jersey's 177th Civil Engineers provide humanitarian and civic assistance in Albania
August 12, 2016
New Jersey Air National Guard civil engineers check the level of a galvanized pipe from a gravity fed water supply tank at medical clinic in Vau i Dejës, Albania, on July 8, 2016. The 177th Fighter Wing unit members traveled to Albania on a Deployment For Training (DFT) and worked on Humanitarian and Civic Assistance renovation projects facilitated by the U.S. Army's 457th Civil Affairs Battalion. New Jersey and Albania are paired under the National Guard's State Partnership Program.
Air Guard units provide critical communications link for Northern Strike exercise
August 11, 2016
A communications radar unit operated by the 264th Combat Communications Squadron stands ready during Exercise Northern Strike at the Combat Training Readiness Center in Alpena, Mich., on Aug. 9, 2016. Northern Strike 16 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 Army, Air Force, Marine and Special Forces service members from 20 states and three coalition countries during the first three weeks of August 2016 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, both located in northern Michigan.
Leapfest 2016 features parachutists from around the globe
August 10, 2016
A group of U.S. Army and Partner Nation Paratroopers boards a CH-47 F Chinook Helicopter during Leapfest 2016 at the University of Rhode Island, West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 6, 2016.
Alaska Air Guard members rescue four plane crash survivors
August 10, 2016
An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60 Pave Hawk, from the 210th Rescue Squadron, is on a training flight near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in February 2013.A similar aircraft helped save the plane crash survivors.
Delaware National Guard visiting partners in Trinidad and Tobago
August 9, 2016
Maj. Gen. Frank Vavala, adjutant general, Delaware National Guard, held the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Delaware state flags upon arrival into the Piarco International Airport on August 7, 2016.
Vermont and Massachusetts National Guards conduct live-fire exercise of Picatinny howitzers
August 5, 2016
Working with Picatinny Arsenal, the Vermont and Massachusetts National Guards conducted a live-fire testing of their new M777A2 and M119A3 Howitzers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix on July 27, 2016
Oregon National Guard dedicates solar array in Pendleton
August 5, 2016
Betsy Kauffman, with Energy Trust of Oregon, presents a check for $84,319 to Col. Kenneth Safe, construction and facilities management officer for the Oregon Army National Guard, as part of the dedication of the Oregon Military Department's new solar panel array at the Oregon Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF #2) at the airport in Pendleton, Oregon, August 4. The Oregon Military Department partnered with Energy Trust of Oregon, the federal government and Pacific Power to bring the project to completion, working toward the larger goal of making the Oregon National Guard net zero by 2020.