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Guard instrumental in bridging electronic gap between DoD, VA through medical case file evaluation processes
June 24, 2014
A Service member shelves patient medical records at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. March 26, 2009. The Army National Guard has been a pioneer in the transition from paper files to electronic files through the use of self-designed medical readiness systems like Health Readiness Record and Medical Evaluation board Preparation. The Department of Defense based their electronic Case File Transfer system off of the Army Guard's MEB Prep system.

Army announces 33,000 positions now available to women
June 23, 2014
Soldiers of the 501st Special Troops Battalion go on a ruck march June 19, 2014, at Camp Carroll, South Korea.

Flooding in Minnesota, South Dakota leads to Guard response
June 20, 2014
Members of the South Dakota Army National Guard’s 235th Military Police Company, based out of Sioux Falls, tie sandbags at the Dakota Valley Elementary School parking lot, June 19, 2014, in North Sioux City for community members in the Union County area. About 147 SDNG members are assisting state and local emergency management officials in flood operations in southeast South Dakota in response to the rise in water levels along the Big Sioux River.

Commentary - Recommit to addressing alcohol use
June 20, 2014
A U.S. sailor gives a simulated breathalyzer test during a simulated drunk-driving accident during a Keep What You've Earned fair at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor, July 16, 2013, in Silverdale, Wash.

Total force approach in North Dakota aims to enhance leadership training for future NCOs
June 20, 2014
Tech. Sgt. James Richey, an instructor from the Chief Master. Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger Airman Leadership School at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, right, instructs students about the rules of an interactive knowledge contest during ALS classroom instruction at the North Dakota Air National Guard Base, Fargo, North Dakota, June 12, 2014, as Senior Airman Christopher Mann looks on.

New Mexico Army National Guard aviators train with Marine counterparts
June 20, 2014
Marines at Twenty Nine Palms refuel a New Mexico National Guard helicopter during joint training.

Kentucky Air Guard and U.S. Army establish crucial cargo hub for earthquake response
June 19, 2014
Sgt. Claribel Lopez Feliciano, yard boss for the U.S. Army’s 688th Rapid Port Opening Element, signs a manifest for cargo from Staff Sgt. Kevin Freese, an aerial porter for the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, before the cargo is shipped to a staging area called the forward node during Capstone '14, a homeland earthquake-response exercise at Fort Campbell, Ky., on June 18, 2014. The 123rd CRG is joining with the 688th RPOE to operate a Joint Task Force-Port Opening here from June 16 to 19, 2014.

More than 300 South Dakota National Guard members helping after tornado and flooding
June 18, 2014
More than 120 members of the South Dakota National Guard were responding June 18, 2014, after being activated to assist after flooding.

Alaska National Guard observation leads to remains recovery from 1952 plane crash
June 18, 2014
This Douglas C-124C Globemaster at the National Museum of the United States Air Force is similar to the craft that crashed in 1952 at a remote Alaska site.

Brig. Gen. Michael R. Taheri assumes command of Air National Guard Readiness Center
June 18, 2014
Brig. Gen. Michael R. Taheri, commander of the Air National Guard Readiness Center, assumes command of the ANGRC from Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke III, the director of the ANG, during an assumption of command ceremony June 16, 2014.