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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.
Eight Guard states active in largest-ever National Level Exercise
May 16, 2011
Members of the Indiana 53rd Civil Support Team assist the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, District 2, Tactical Rescue Team from South Bend, Indiana, pull a mock victim from the rubble during National Level Exercise 2011, a full-scale exercise meant to represent the destruction following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault line. The exercise, taking place at Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex May 16 - 20, will examine the government's ability to implement local, state, and federal catastrophic earthquake response plans.
Wisconsin National Guard to host week-long disaster exercise
May 16, 2011
National Guard cost-effective solution in fiscally constrained times
May 13, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, acting director of the Army National Guard, talks about the Army Guard as an operational force during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington, May 11, 2011. Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley (left), chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Air Force Lt. Gen. Harry "Bud" Wyatt, director of the Air National Guard, also talked about how far the Air Guard and the National Guard as a whole have come since 9/11.
Alaska Guard wraps up free medical clinic in rural Alabama
May 11, 2011
Air Force Col. Ron Kichura, an optometrist and commander of the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Medical Group, performs an inner ocular pressure test on Hayneville Mayor Helenore Bell here May 10, 2011. Seventy members deployed here: 25 from the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Medical Group; 10 support personnel from other Alaska Air Guard units; and 35 from a variety of Guard and Reserve units around the country. They arrived here May 1 for 12 days of training through the Innovative Readiness Program. This program allows Guard and Reserve members to get the training they need while at the same time delivering real-world results -- in this case, providing an array of health-care services to a historically underserved area.
Louisiana Guard rushes to protect city from flood waters
May 11, 2011
Members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 927th and 928th Sapper Engineer Companies are constructing sand-filled HESCO basket barriers on top of a levee along Lake Palourde in Morgan City, La., May 10, 2011. The Guard members are adding three feet of protection to the levee as a precautionary measure due to possible flooding caused by the rising Mississippi River.
Illinois Guard supports African medical exercise
May 11, 2011
Army Sgt. Jeffrey S. Niemi of the 399th Combat Support Hospital assists Sgt. McDonald Linyama of the Malawi Defence Force in assessing Army Sgt. Robert E. Waight of the 404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade during training to become a certified combat life saver as part of MEDREACH 11 exercises being conducted in Lilongwe, Malawi. U.S. and Malawi Defence Force troops competed in timed assessments as their peers evaluated and provided them with instant feedback.