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Alaska Air Guard rescuers transport woman in labor with twins
July 30, 2014
An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60 Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopter from the 210th Rescue Squadron flies over Cook Inlet April 30, 2013. Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons assisted July 28, 2014, with the transportation of a pregnant woman in labor from Nulato, Alaska.
Tech. Sgt. Douglas Matthews is Air Guard's Outstanding Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year
July 29, 2014
The Air National Guard's Outstanding Non-commissioned Officer of the Year, Technical Sgt. Douglas Matthews, a combat controller assigned to the 125th Special tactics Squadron, Oregon Air National Guard. Matthews was recently awarded the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest award for valor and is one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen of 2014.
2014 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award recipients announced
July 28, 2014
Fifteen employers will be honored at a September ceremony "for their unwavering commitment to service members and their families," in the words of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
New York National Guard training takes to the skies
July 28, 2014
A New York Army National Guard flight medic from the Rochester, N.Y.-based Company F, 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation (Air Ambulance), rises up from the wood line to conduct medical evacuation training with infantry Soldiers from the New York Army National Guard's 2nd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry, from Gloversville, N.Y. The two units trained jointly during their New York Army National Guard Annual Training, July 17, 2014.
Relationship-centered security cooperation model comes of age
July 28, 2014
Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic, Serbia's chief of defense, welcomes Army Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard, for a meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, July 23, 2014. Serbia and Ohio have been partners in the National Guard State Partnership Program since 2006.
Guard Airmen, Soldiers continue western wildfire battle
July 25, 2014
Utah Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Jason Towensend, 2-211 Aviation Battalion, drops water on the Tunnel Hallow fire near Morgan, Utah, July 23, 2014. The two HH-60 Black Hawks assisting with the fire were able to drop more than 29,000 gallons of water on the fire.
Army National Guard activates its first brigade engineer battalion
July 25, 2014
Army Lt. Col. Zac Delwiche, commander of the California Army National Guard's 578th Brigade Engineer Battalion, receives the unit guidon during the activation ceremony for the unit at Camp Roberts, California, June 14, 2014. The 578th BEB is the first brigade engineer battalion to be activated in the Army National Guard and part of an Army-wide change to provide greater organic engineer support to brigade combat teams.
Air National Guard director Clarke makes Wyoming re-enlistment ceremony memorable
July 24, 2014
Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke III, the director of the Air National Guard, administers the oath of enlistment during a mass re-enlistment ceremony, for Airmen of the 153rd Airlift Wing on July 23, 2014. Clarke visited the 153rd, and met with unit and Wyoming National Guard leaders .
Michigan Army Guard kicks off XCTC training exercise, active component and Army Guard Soldiers train together
July 23, 2014
A Soldier assigned to the 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan National Guard, prepares for contact from opposing forces in his hasty fighting position during the Field Artillery Defense situation training exercise lane during the eXportable Combat Training Capability exercise on Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Mich., July 17, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jeremy Miller/Released)
New Jersey Army Guard hosting unique officer candidate school for Albanians
July 23, 2014
Albanian 2nd Lt. Hekuran Budani and Sgt. Marjana Kotarja speak to students of the Command and General Staff Officer Course at Joint Base Dix-McGuire-Lakehurst, N.J., about the first-of-its-kind Officer Candidate School they are attending. In the background is Matthew Zilinski, senior platoon training officer of New Jersey's OCS program for the Albanians.