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Guard’s Quick Response Force protects veteran’s home from river
April 15, 2011
Air Force Staff Sgt. Paul Williams and Air Force Staff Sgt. Sam Wagner, both of the 119th Civil Engineer Squadron, toss sandbags along a line of Soldiers and Airmen who are members of a North Dakota National Guard quick response force team April 14, 2011, near Kindred, N.D. The QRF were responding to a request from a rural farm resident, living along the Sheyenne River, for sandbag assistance to create a flood levee barrier to rising water around his house. As of April 14, more than 500 N.D. National Guard Airmen and Soldiers were conducting flood operations in North Dakota, with the vast majority in Cass County.
SMA visits Guard Soldiers at BCTC-Leavenworth
April 15, 2011
SMA Raymond F. Chandler III fields questions from ARNG Soldiers at the BCTC-Lvn on April 14, 2011.
Guard’s Quick Reaction Force holds back Maple River’s move toward farm
April 14, 2011
Air Force Master Sgt. David Bush, of the 119th Civil Engineer Squadron, right, is one of several members of a North Dakota National Guard quick response force team throwing sandbags into the bucket on a farm tractor April 12, 2011, near Enderlin, N.D. The QRF is responding to a request from a farm resident through the Cass County Emergency Operations Center for sandbag assistance to create a flood levee barrier to rising water around his house. The tractor is one of the few vehicles light enough and high enough to cross a precarious section of flooded roadway leading to the farmstead without damaging the road.
National Guard biathletes on target with Wounded Warriors assist
April 14, 2011
Dennis Hooper, a retired Army Soldier and Wounded Warrior biathlete, sit-skis toward the finish line of the Mammoth Winter Biathlon on March 26 in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Fifteen National Guard biathletes assisted at the event, which marked the first time Guard athletes were sent to an event primarily to support a Wounded Warrior competition.
North Dakota Guard state partner visits during flood
April 13, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Jason Horner, of the 81st Civil Support Team, displays some of his unit's equipment for Col. Isaac Mensah Tetteh, director of land operations at the General Headquarters for the Ghana Army, and Kofi Portuphy, national coordinator for the National Disaster Management Agency, at Fraine Barracks, Bismarck, N.D., April 11, 2011.
Dale Jr. earns fourth top-10 finish this season, is sixth in points race
April 13, 2011
The pit crew of Dale Earnhardt Jr.,driver of the No. 88 National Guard NASCAR racecar, feverishly works to get their car and driver out of pit road, at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas., April 9, 2011. The ninth-place finish netted by Earnhardt moved him up into the sixth position in the championship standings.
Mississippi National Guard Airmen gain new mission with AFNORTH
April 13, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. William Freeman, Mississippi adjutant general, and Air Force Maj. Gen. Alex Roberts, commander of the Mississippi Air National Guard, preside over the presentation of the guidon from Air Force Col. William Platt (center facing), commander of the 286th Air Operations Group at Meridian Air National Guard Base, April 8, 2011.
Connecticut Guard K-9 unit participates in Exercise Balikatan 2011 in Philippines
April 12, 2011
Army Sgt. Jeffrey R. Holyst, 11th Military Working Dog Detachment, Connecticut Army National Guard, gets "Jury," a MWD to bite his toy while U.S. Soldiers and Airmen exchanged K-9 training techniques with their Philippine military counterparts at Clark Field, Philippines, during Exercise Balikatan 2011, April 7, 2011. The training helps maintain readiness and sustain the long-term security assistance relationship shared between the two countries.
Dempsey lays out themes for tenure as Army chief
April 12, 2011
Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey.
Stavridis: National Guard State Partnership Program resources well-spent
April 11, 2011
Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Serbian Army Lt. Gen. Miloje Miletic, chief of staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, review Serbian troops following McKinley's arrival in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sept. 10, 2010, for National Guard State Partnership Program activities.