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DC Army National Guard captain brings home gold in international military skills competition
August 13, 2012
Army Capt. Leala McCollum, a pilot with the District of Columbia Army National Guard's 121st Medical Company (Air Ambulance) performs first aid on a patient during the casualty care portion of the NATO Military Skills Pentathlon in Hoevelte, Denmark. McCollum helped her team, made of members from militaries throughout the world, earn a gold medal in the competition.
Army National Guard announces Best Warrior Competition winners
August 10, 2012
Army Sgt. Matthew Howard, an artillery crew member with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Fires Brigade, Arkansas Army National Guard, exits a low-crawl tube, one of the obstacles during the stress shoot event, at Fort Benning, Ga. July 31, 2012 - during the Army National Guard's 2012 Best Warrior Competition. Howard would go on to be named the top noncommissioned officer for the competition, earning a spot to compete at the Department of the Army competition later this year.
North Carolina Air National Guard returns to MAFFS mission
August 10, 2012
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Internet scam targets Illinois National Guard spouses
August 9, 2012
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Louisiana Guard welcomes back youth science program
August 9, 2012
New Orleans resident Jennifer Deblieux, deputy director of STARBASE, demonstrates the flight simulator to Army Maj. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis, adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, and St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann following a ribbon cutting ceremony welcoming back the youth-science program STARBASE at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, Aug. 8, 2012. Introduced in Orleans Parish in 1999, the Louisiana program has since served more than 9,300 students and, as a result of Hurricane Katrina, was relocated to Pineville in Rapides Parish.
Alabama Guard member chosen to entertain troops in international "Soldier’s Show"
August 9, 2012
Alabama National Guard Lt. Daniel Monplaisir, S-1 for the 731st Combat Service Support Battalion, Tallassee, Ala., entertains troops in international Soldier’s Show.
Panetta: National Guard, Reserve key to defense strategy
August 9, 2012
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta addresses National Guard leaders at the National Guard's 2011 Joint Senior Leadership Conference at National Harbor, Md., on Nov. 8, 2011.
Florida Air Guard member becomes first Guard F-35 instructor pilot
August 9, 2012
Air National Guard Maj. Jay Spohn performs pre-flight tasks in an F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter in July during preparations to become the Guard’s first F-35 instructor pilot. He finished his last of six flights Aug. 3, 2012 to become a part of aviation history. Spohn is a Florida National Guard member and is embedded in the 33d Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base where he is responsible for training up the fighter pilots who will fly the fifth-generation F-35 and will carry the U.S. Air Force into the next 50 years of air superiority.
Williams assumes leadership of the Air National Guard Readiness Center
August 8, 2012
Air Force Brig. Gen. R. Scott Williams, the commander of the Air National Guard Readiness Center, discusses his goals during an assumption of command ceremony of the ANGRC from Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, the director of the ANG, Aug. 7, 2012. The ANGRC ensures ANG field units are properly resourced to train and equip in support of the state and federal missions across the entire spectrum of military operations and provide support sustaining ANG Airmen throughout their careers.
Air Force CSA travel card transitions to GTC
August 8, 2012
The Air Force Banking Office will start converting approximately 300,000 controlled spend account cards into government travel cards Aug. 7, 2012. For most Airmen, the process will be automatic, and they can continue to use their blue cards. However, those Airmen who are identified as failing to meet creditworthiness requirements will need to make arrangements with their agency program coordinator.