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Family Care is common bond for South Carolina National Guard and Colombian military
September 23, 2015
Barbara Livingston, wife of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Robert E. Livingston, Jr., adjutant general for South Carolina, right, talks to Claudia Patricia Novoa, spouse of Colombian Air Force Maj. Gen. Ramses Rueda, chief of education for the Colombian Air Force and Durley Rocio Torrado Ortiz, spouse of Colombian Lt. Col. Alcaro Enrique Gomez Franco at an informal gathering held at the Livingston's home, Sept. 8, 2015, near Columbia, S.C. The gathering between the S.C. National Guard spouses and state partnership program spouses from Colombia focused on their roles as spouses of military leaders and the various programs in the National Guard such as the U.S. "Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program" that puts in place programs to help families before, during, and after a deployment.
General Milley: After 9/11, “America’s Army National Guard was everywhere.”
September 22, 2015
General Milley praises National Guard partnership building
September 22, 2015
General Milley: “Nothing’s sacred”
September 22, 2015
General Milley: “There is only one Army”
September 22, 2015
Gen. Mark Milley addresses National Guard leaders in Nashville, Tennessee on Sept. 11, 2015.
Nevada Guard welcomes state partner Tonga, dignitaries from Papua New Guinea and Nauru
September 22, 2015
Chief military officials of the Kingdom of Tonga — Nevada’s nation partner under the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program — and senior officials from Papua New Guinea and Nauru visited Nevada this week. From left to right: Nevada Adjutant General, Brig. Gen. Bill Burks; Warrant Officer Class One (WO1) Taulaki Falesiva; Brigadier Tupou T. Aleamotu’a; Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval; Nauru Deputy Police Commissioner Antonius Amwano; Papua New Guinea Esekia Litur Wenzel; Nevada Army Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Jared Kopacki.
Tank renovation for museum teaches history to New York Soldiers
September 22, 2015
New York Army National Guard Spc. Jonathon Bishop, Co. B, 427th Brigade Support Battalion, attaches a clevis fastener on a refurbished World War II-era M4A3 Sherman tank on permanent display at the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs, Sept. 15, 2015. National Guard Soldiers working full time at the Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site, or MATES, at Fort Drum, spent the past 22 months refurbishing and repainting the tank in their spare time.
New York Army Guard Soldiers take to the water, train on small boat insertion techniques
September 17, 2015
New York Army National Guard Sgt. Aaron Lawrence and Spc. Zach Bouley, two infantrymen assigned to Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 101st Cavalry Regiment, recon a landing site in advance of an inbound F470 Combat Rubber Raiding Craft during a training exercise in Buffalo, N.Y, Sept. 13, 2015. During the exercise, Soldiers from the troop conducted waterborne operations and practiced covertly deploying to a simulated enemy beachhead.
Massachusetts Guard Announces State Partnership With Kenya
September 17, 2015
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Oregon Guard Soldier Skarlatos awarded Soldier’s Medal for actions to subdue gunman on Paris-bound train
September 17, 2015
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, left, pins the Soldier's Medal on the uniform of Spc. Aleksander Skarlatos, of the Oregon Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry Regiment, during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Skarlatos received the award--the highest award for heroism in a non-combat situation--for his role in subduing a heavily armed gunman on a Paris-bound train in August. Looking on is Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Army Gen. Frank Grass, chief, National Guard Bureau.