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Ghanaians get up-close look at how North Dakota Guard handles flooding
April 15, 2011
North Dakota National Guard Joint Task Force-East leaders and visiting Ghanaian dignitaries tour flood protection measure April 14, 2011, including this AquaFence in Fargo, N.D. The Ghanaian dignitaries are visiting the North Dakota National Guard as part of a State Partnership Program between the African country of Ghana and the North Dakota National Guard. Since 2003, the North Dakota National Guard has developed a professional relationship with Ghana as part of the National Guard State Partnership Program. This program aligns states with partner countries to encourage the development of economic, political and military ties.

Guard members train to win at All Army Championships
April 15, 2011
Pfc. Jeremy Westover of the Vermont Army National Guard fires his M-16 rifle
from a hedgehog beach obstacle during the combined arms match of the 2011
U.S. Army Small Arms Championship March 25 at Fort Benning, Ga. These
obstacles were made famous during the World War II D-Day invasion of
Normandy, France.

Organization honors Guard children
April 15, 2011
Keegan Neverett performs a song for the audience at the Our Military Kids of 
the Year awards ceremony at the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., April 14, 
2011. Neverett, whose father serves in the Army National Guard, was one of 
four children honored by Our Military Kids, a nonprofit organization that 
provides artistic, athletic and educational grants to children of deployed 
National Guardsmen and military Reservists.

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.