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Kentucky Guard stands up Joint Air Operations Center for earthquake exercise
May 19, 2011
Airmen and Soldiers from the Kentucky National Guard staff a Joint Air Operations Center at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base In Louisville, Ky., on May 17, 2011. The JAOC is supporting a major earthquake-response exercise by prioritizing and allocating air assets for missions into affected areas across the state.

Government, commands join forces for major earthquake response exercise
May 19, 2011
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Indiana Guard task force unites first-response capabilities
May 19, 2011
Indiana Army National Guard Spc. Nichole Smith of Franklin, Ind., a medic in the emergency response unit, readies a stretcher during a training exercise at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center near Butlerville, Ind., May 14, 2011. The unit is currently conducting their first collective training exercise in the field in preparation for their validation evaluation slated for August.

Exercises test medical response of 123rd Airlift Wing, VA after major earthquake
May 19, 2011
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Heather Speidel, a medic with the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Medical Group, simulates inserting a breathing tube in the windpipe of a notional plane-crash victim during earthquake-response exercises held May 18, 2011, at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky. The exercises were designed to test the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Kentucky Air Guard to provide medical care following a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault line.

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)