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Missouri National Guard plays important part in National Level Exercise
May 19, 2011
Missouri National Guard officers coordinate with their peers in other state and federal agencies during the National Level Exercise at Ike Skelton Training Site in May.
National Guard supports final Endeavour flight
May 19, 2011
Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Endeavour moves along the crawlerway from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., March 11, 2011. Riding atop a crawler-transporter attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, Endeavour's last scheduled 3.4-mile trek to the pad, known as "rollout," took just less than eight hours. (NASA courtesy photo) (Released)
On target for partnership: New York Guard forms bonds in South African rifle match
May 18, 2011
New York National Guard members visit with a tame cheetah at a South African game preserve during their recent trip there for the South African National Defense Force 2011 Regional Combat Rifle Competition.
Dale Jr., National Guard team implement tire strategies in Dover, finish 12th
May 18, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 National Guard NASCAR racecar, makes a pit stop as his crew sprint around his car at the Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware May7, 2011. Jr. started the race in the third position and after battling the handling of his car all night, finished in 12th place. He is still in fourth place in the Sprint Cup series standings.
Adjutant General: ‘Always Ready, Always There’ doesn’t just happen
May 18, 2011
Brig. Gen. Donald P. Dunbar, the adjutant general of Wisconsin, photographed May 21, 2009. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. 1st Class Vaughn R. Larson
Guardsmen in Louisiana continue battle along state's waterways
May 18, 2011
VIDELIA, La. – Louisiana National Guardsman Spc. Allen Cormier of Central, La., feels the ground under the water for signs of a sandboil on the west side of the Mississippi River levee outside of Videlia, La., May 14, 2011. More than 25 members of the 225th Engineer Brigade have been working 24 hours a day searching for sandboils and looking for seepage along portions of the 72 miles of levee that protect Concordia Parish from the brimming Mississippi River. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rebekah Malone, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office/Released)
National Level Exercise showcases Guard’s interagency operability
May 17, 2011
While units of the Mississippi National Guard are dealing with floods threatening the western part of the state, more than 100 Georgia Army and Air Guard members have set up shop here at the Meridian-Lauderdale County Public Safety Training Center. They will spend the next five days participating in Operation Vigilant Guard 2011, along with some Soldiers and Airmen from the “cotton state” and Florida, and observers from West Virginia and Texas.
2011 Vigilant Guard exercise kicks off in Jefferson County
May 17, 2011
Lt. Col. Timothy Covington, commander of the Wisconsin National Guard's 54th Civil Support Team, coordinates with Jefferson County fire department and Sheriff's Department members during a scenario Saturday morning (May 14) to kick off Vigilant Guard 2011. Vigilant Guard is a large-scale disaster response exercise designed to test National Guard capabilities developed since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and also since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Vigilant Guard shows how local, state and federal agencies would collaborate in response to a real emergency.
NATO Secretary General visits, praises Georgia National Guard
May 16, 2011
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen talks with Georgia National Guard members during a May 9, 2011, visit at which he praised the state's service with NATO and participation in the National Guard State Partnership Program.
Louisiana Guard members build flood protection, provide security
May 16, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Cedric Grimes, a member of the Louisiana National Guard, operates a Compactor at the southern end of Krotz Springs, La., May 12, 2011. The Louisiana National Guard is working jointly with local, state and parish officials on a nearly two-mile long levee that will add one to nine feet of protection from flooding for 240 homes outside of the town’s ring levee during the opening of the Morganza Spillway.