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Army National Guard trains its first Cyber Network Defenders
November 25, 2014
Army Maj. Gen. Judd H. Lyons, left, acting director of the Army National Guard, speaks with a member of the 1636th Cyber Protection Team during a patch ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, Tuesday Oct. 7, 2014, where unit members received their shoulder sleeve insignia. The 1636th CPT is the first Army National Guard cyber protection team to be activated and several of its members recently graduated from the Cyber Network Defender Course, with several being named as honor graduates.

Army National Guard units get new communications gear with synchronized fielding, training
November 24, 2014
Through Unit Set Fielding, the Army continues to deliver modernized mission command network capabilities so both regular Army and Army National Guard units can keep pace with technological advances and communicate with each other when called upon.

New York National Guard has 780 members working to remove snow, prepare for flooding, in Buffalo area
November 24, 2014
New York Air National Guard Airmen from the 107th Airlift Wing based in Niagara Falls support the stockpiling of sandbags Nov. 23, 2014, at the Erie County Community College in Williamsville, New York. The Airmen helped with the palletization, loading and onward movement of the sandbags destined for response efforts following the warmer temperatures in Western New York that has raised flooding concerns across Erie County.

Deadline extended for confidential health-behavior survey
November 21, 2014
An Advanced Individual Training Soldier at Fort Rucker, Ala. conducts set up of an Army-issued notebook computer for his classwork June 18, 2013.  Cyber security should be practiced at work, home and the local coffee shop, experts say.

Over 750 New York National Guard members assist after snow; prepare for possible floods
November 20, 2014
New York Army National Guard Soldiers from the 152nd Engineer Company use engineering equipment to assist in snow removal efforts in Buffalo, New York, Nov. 20, 2014, as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s callup of some 500 National Guard members to support response and recovery efforts in Western New York following historic amounts of snowfall.

New York National Guard members called up in snow emergency
November 19, 2014
New York Air National Guard’s 107th Security Forces from Niagara Falls, N.Y. deploy to the affected areas in Western New York on Nov. 18, 2014. Airmen grab their gear for the mission.

New York National Guard Homeland Response Force trains in the cold
November 18, 2014
Members of the New York  National Guard’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear incident response task force conduct casualty decontamination training at the Erie County Emergency Services Training and Operations Center in Cheektowaga, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2014.

Wisconsin National Guard's Ebola team vital to state response, health official says
November 18, 2014
Maj Gen. Donald Dunbar, the adjutant general of Wisconsin, looks on as a member of the Wisconsin National Guard’s Joint Health Assistance Team decontaminates her protective suit during training for an Ebola Virus Disease response Oct. 31 at Volk Field, Wisconsin.

NGB senior leaders, DoD officials witness combat effectiveness of the National Guard
November 18, 2014
Several UH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the South Carolina Army National Guard and the North Carolina Army National Guard perform system checks prior to the kickoff Operation Carolina Thunder 2014 at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, Nov. 15, 2014. Spanning Nov. 14-16, Operation Carolina Thunder was a large-scale combat training exercise that involved aircraft - both fixed and rotary wing - and Soldiers and Airmen from units in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.

Guard units from six states will begin training for Ebola-relief mission in West Africa
November 17, 2014
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