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Utah National Guard to flip the switch for huge energy savings
July 15, 2014
The Utah National Guard’s energy-creation program includes solar and wind power. On the roof of the Guard’s headquarters building in Draper are more than 1,400 new solar panels that will be switched on at the ceremony July 16, 2014.
Alaska Air Guard member receives Silver Star for 'extraordinary heroism' in Afghanistan
July 14, 2014
Master Sgt. Roger Sparks, and Maj. Joseph Conroy, both with the 212th Rescue Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, hold an award citation during a ceremony on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, July 11. Sparks was awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest award for valor, for his role in a firefight with insurgents during Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan’s Watapur Valley on Nov. 14, 2010. His actions during the combat operation resulted in four American lives being saved and four casualties being returned to their families with honor and dignity.
Florida Army Guard Infantry training revs up at Camp Blanding with eXportable Combat Training
July 14, 2014
Contractors from XCTC watch as Pfc. Calin Stewart of C Company, 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, sites his M-249 light machine gun using electronic sensors and equipment at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, Fla., July 12, 2014. More than 4,500 Infantry Soldiers from the Florida Army National Guard were at Camp Blanding in late July for the XCTC training.
Alaska Army Guard receives one of only three C-12J airframes in the U.S. Army
July 10, 2014
A C-12J Huron aircraft sits in a hangar on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, July 8, 2014. The pictured aircraft is one of only three C-12J’s in the U.S. Army’s inventory. The Alaska Army National Guard took possession of the C-12J in June to expand its passenger transportation capability.
Air National Guard security forces turn up the heat in Georgia
July 10, 2014
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Quataisia Marigny, a member of the 116th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), Georgia Air National Guard, fires an M240 machine gun under the watchful eye of Staff Sgt. Alan Glaze, a combat arms instructor from the 116th SFS, during a training exercise at the Catoosa Training Site, Tunnel Hill, Ga., June 26, 2014.
Michigan National Guard Soldiers familiarize Liberian soldiers with counterintelligence measures
July 9, 2014
Michigan National Guard Sgt. Matthew Robinson and Liberian Armed Forces soldier Pvt. 1st Class Musa Jabateh pose for a picture during a training exercise at Edward B. Kesselly Barracks in Monrovia, Liberia, June 12, 2014.
Father and daughter from Maine Air Guard deploy together to Bagram
July 8, 2014
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kimberly Buzzell and Tech. Sgt. John Trujillo at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, July 1, 2014. Trujillo and Buzzell are father and daughter, both assigned to Task Force Signal and deployed from the Air National Guard's 243rd Engineering Installation Squadron in South Portland, Maine, and natives of Turner, Maine.
South Carolina National Guard demonstrates maintenance techniques for Colombian partners
July 8, 2014
U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel Garcia-Benedetti, a small arms repairman in the 742nd Support Maintenance Company, South Carolina National Guard, teaches Colombian army maintenance workers how to troubleshoot malfunctions and break down an M240 machine gun, June 2014.
MAFFS crews continue training to fly the fiery skies
July 8, 2014
A U.S. Forest Service lead plane blows smoke to signal a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 from the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing that it's time to drop its payload during annual MAFFS training, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, on May 1, 2014.
Virginia Guard aviators join multiple agencies in large-scale disaster drill
July 7, 2014
Virginia Army National Guard aviators provide aviation support during a National Disaster Medical System Full Scale Exercise held June 7, 2014, at the Chesterfield County (Virginia) Airport.