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National Guard reaches 1,200 mark on border
September 17, 2010
Members of the California National Guard stand in formation before undertaking operations on California's Southern border. Slightly more than 1,200 National Guard members from the four Southwest border states are in training or already deployed in support of the border mission

Air Guard dedicates Shepperd Hall at Andrews
September 16, 2010
From left to right: Chief Master Sgt. Denise Jelinski-Hall, the National Guard Bureau senior enlisted advisor; Gen. Craig R. McKinley, the chief of the NGB; retired Maj. Gen. Donald W. Sheppard, former director of the ANG; retired Lt. Gen. John Conaway, former chief of the NGB; Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, director of the ANG; and Command Chief Master Sgt. Christopher Muncy, the ANG command chief, cut a ceremonial ribbon on the new addition to the ANG Readiness Center named “Shepperd Hall.”

Mullen: 'It's your money; come and get it'
September 16, 2010
Admiral Mike Mullen

Ohio National Guard and Hungary: ‘Graduate-level’ state partnership
September 16, 2010
Army. Maj. Gen. Gregory Wayt, the adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard, awards the Ohio Commendation Medal to Hungarian Defense Forces soldiers who served in a joint unit with Ohio National Guard members in Afghanistan at Tata, Hungary, on Sept. 15, 2010. A delegation of Ohio National Guard leaders was in Hungary for National Guard State Partnership Program activities.

COMMENTARY: A chaplain's view on a day off
September 16, 2010

Washington Air Guardsman earns bronze star with ‘V’ for seven-hour firefight
September 16, 2010
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz hangs the bronze star with valor award on Staff Sgt. Kenneth I. Walker III during the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Sept. 14, 2010.  Walker, a member of the Washington Air National Guard, earned the award for heroism as a member of Detachment 2, 817th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron and Task Force Spader while engaged in ground combat in Ghosleck Valley, Afghanistan

Wyatt: Air Guard a more cost-effective, operational forc
September 16, 2010

Louisiana Guard completes training mission in Haiti
September 15, 2010
Soldiers of the Louisiana National Guard’s 205th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade, pour concrete to secure the wall for the U.S. Army South New Horizons- Haiti 2010 Diaquoi project site in Gonaives, Haiti, July 14, 2010.

McKinley: National Guard is a national treasure
September 15, 2010
Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau, speaks to a room of Air Force leaders during the 2010 Air Force Association Air and Space Conference, in Oxon Hill, Md., Sept. 14, 2010.

RENO AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Nev., - "Pest" is a four-letter word to Air Force Staff Sgt. Damien Falconer of the Nevada Air National Guard's 152nd Civil Engineering Squadron.
September 15, 2010
Air Force Staff Sgt. Damien Falconer is the lone pest management specialist in the Nevada Air National Guard. It is his job to eliminate all of the creepy-crawly nuisances on his base in Reno. The mice were used for illustrative purposes and were safely returned to a pet store.