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Hard fought 11th place finish puts Dale Jr. in nine place position for points race
March 24, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 National Guard NASCAR racecar, is pictured sitting in the driver’s seat during a pit stop at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn., March 20, 2011. Dale Jr. finished the day with an 11th place finish, moving him into ninth place in the points race.

McKinley: State Partnership Program National Guard crown jewel
March 24, 2011
Botswana Defence Force Brig. Gen. George Tlhalerwa fires a squad automatic
weapon as Army Col. Jeffery Brotherton, North Carolina National Guard,
observes, Aug. 17, 2009, at the Camp Butner National Guard Training Center
in North Carolina. The event, a State Partnership Program initiative, gave a
delegation of officers and civilians from Botswana an opportunity to see
U.S. training facilities and weapons ranges.

Guardmember remembered as strong family man, great Soldier
March 24, 2011
Master Sgt. William Scott Pitts.

Romanian Air Force officers visit Alabama Guard unit
March 23, 2011
Romanian Air Force officers look over an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet at the Alabama National Guard's 187th Fighter Wing during a recent visit as part of the National Guard State Partnership Program.

Alaska Guardmembers deploy in support of Mongolian Expeditionary Forces
March 23, 2011
Alaska Army National Guard Master Sgt. Eric Schlemme and Mongolian Armed
Forces Senior Sergeant Battulga Baatar discuss tactics and techniques used
by the Mongolian Expeditionary Force executing a traffic control point
training lane at Five Hills Training Area in Mongolia during Khaan Quest
2009. Schlemme also deployed with the MEF to Afghanistan as an embedded U.S.
liaison.

Nation’s busiest air sovereignty alert unit, D.C. Guard’s 113th Wing, earns award
March 23, 2011
The 113th Fighter Squad, District of Columbia Air National Guard aircraft number 509 proudly shows off the unit's latest tail flash. (U.S Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Gareth Buckland/Released)

National Guard recognizes Border Patrol chief
March 23, 2011
Border Patrol agents observe Arizona National Guard Soldiers training for
Operation Copper Cactus at an undisclosed location in Arizona on Aug. 25,
2010. Operation Copper Condor is the Arizona National Guard's contribution
to the up to 1,200 National Guard troops being deployed to support the
Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the four Southwest
border states.

Now it’s 63: National Guard State Partnership Program pairs Iowa, Kosovo
March 23, 2011
Army 1st Lt. Aaron Rosheim, a helicopter pilot with the Iowa National
Guard's C Company, 2-147th Aviation Battalion, explains an essay assignment
to a group of students at the Youth Center in Ferizaj/Urosevac, Kosovo, Aug.
3, 2010. Rosheim wass among a group of MNBG-E Soldiers, who visited the
youth center twice a week to prepare a group of students to take an English
language test. Rosheim was deployed as a part of MNBG-E in support of the
NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.

Website links unemployed vets, spouses to jobs
March 23, 2011
A user-friendly Web portal makes it easier for veterans - including Reserve 
component members, their families and wounded warriors - to land jobs with 
civilian employers who value their military experience.

New York National Guard enlists second Olympic bobsledder
March 22, 2011
Staff Sgt. James Bills enlists Bobsledder Nick Cunningham.