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Vermont Air National Guard tests flight line equipment to make a greener Air Force
June 4, 2012
Air Force Senior Airman Sean Gilbert of the Vermont National Guard's 158th Fighter Wing Maintenance Squadron, performs a cockpit inspection February 2011.
Two officers reunite eight years after meeting at Officer Basic Course
June 1, 2012
Honduran Capt. Sergio Israel Ballesteros (left), a member of the 1st Engineer Battalion, and Army Capt. Juan Valencia, a battle captain for Beyond the Horizon 2012 Honduras, and a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1140th Engineer Battalion, 35th Engineer Brigade, work together after meeting each other eight years ago at the U.S. Army Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Minnesota National Guard Soldiers train with partners in Croatia
May 31, 2012
Soldiers from the Minnesota Army National Guard's 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment train with members of the Croatian army in Knin, Croatia, May 16, 2012 during Guardex 12.
California Air Guard Airmen break language barrier during rescue mission
May 31, 2012
An HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopter from the California Air National Guard's 129th Rescue Wing hovers over a Chinese fishing vessel, the Fu Yuan Yu #871, March 12, 2012. Guardian Angel pararescuemen from the 129th rescued two fishermen who were severely burned during an onboard diesel fire approximately 700 miles off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico.
Kentucky National Guard's CERFP shatters records during evaluation
May 31, 2012
Army Lt. Col. Dan A. Manning, a physician's assistant with the Kentucky National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear High-Yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package training and a mission certification at Muscatatack Urban Training Center, Butlerville, Ind., May 23, 2012. During the certification, evaluators said members of the Kentucky CERFP surpassed many previously-held training records and is among the best CERFP's in the country.
Seven Army National Guard Soldiers honored with MacArthur Leadership Award
May 29, 2012
Army Capt. Audrey L. Fielding, Ohio Army National Guard, accepts her award at the 2011 General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award ceremony May 24, 2012 at the Pentagon Auditorium in Arlington, Va. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno presented the award to 22 other recipients - six of which were National Guard members - from all three Army components.
Ghana: North Dakota engineers work with Ghanaian army engineers
May 24, 2012
Army Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Pearson, with the 166th regiment, Regional Training Institute, works through an engineering problem with combat engineers from the Ghanaian army using a scale model of a bridge at the Ghanaian army's Coker-Appiah Engineer Training School in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, May 17, 2012. Pearson was working with the Ghanaian engineers as part of a week-long engineer course through the State Partnership Program, which partners National Guard units with 65 countries throughout he world as a way to foster greater relationships between nations.
New Hampshire National Guard, El Salvador exchange emergency management best practices
May 24, 2012
As part of the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program, a group of New Hampshire National Guard members and N.H. civil emergency response leaders greet members of the Comandos del Salvamento Green Cross outside the Republica de El Salvador en la American Central, Ministerio de Governacion building, as they tour various emergency response centers in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 10, 2012.
Wisconsin Guard medics train as they fight
May 24, 2012
Wisconsin Army National Guard combat medics quickly assess a battle-damaged mannequin in an urban combat setting during a two-day Army Medical Department (AMEDD) training session at Fort McCoy, Wis., May 19 to 20, 2012. Realistic training events - such as extracting wounded Soldiers from an urban combat zone and from a guard tower, litter obstacles, battalion aid station and loading casualties on air and ground medevac vehicles - reinforced core skills for more than 200 combat medics and other military medical professionals.
New Hampshire Air Guard air traffic controllers impart wisdom to Salvadorans
May 22, 2012
Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Richard Reed, 260th Air Traffic Control Squadron, briefs El Salvadoran air force air traffic controllers on how the New Hampshire Air National Guard trains their own air traffic controllers, as part of a weeklong subject matter expert exchange between the New Hampshire Air National Guard and the El Salvadoran air force, in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 7-11, 2012. This SMEE was part of the National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program.