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Minnesota National Guard truly 'builds' partnership with Croatia
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Robert Engeholm, a vertical engineer and team leader with the 851st Vertical Engineer Company of the Minnesota National Guard, works with a Croatian soldier to construct a ceiling with concrete blocks, June 15, 2011. Squads of Minnesota Guard members have been rotating through Nasice, Croatia, which is located on the northern slopes of Krndija Mountain in eastern Slavonia, for annual training this spring and summer. The Soldiers are working side by side with Croatian army engineers to complete a project designed to provide training and strengthen the cooperative relationship that exists between Minnesota and Croatia, who are partners through the National Guard's State Partnership Program.
Air Guard, active duty Airmen conduct precision rescue jumpmaster training
June 21, 2011
Air Force Staff Sgt. Travis Brown, a pararescueman with the Kentucky Air National Guard's 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, helps another parachutist collect his gear before the next round of jumpers exit a C-130 cargo airplane, June 8, 2011, during the Precision Rescue Jumpmaster Course conducted at Camp Atterbury, Ind. Students and instructors dropped into the drop zone two at a time and had to clear the field before the next C-130 pass over.
Army National Guard promotes resilience training
June 21, 2011
Members of the Army National's Guard Resilience Trainer Course stand on the flight deck of the USS Midway in San Diego Harbor, April 29, 2011. The course gave Soldiers the skills to assist Master Resilience Trainers for the Guard's Resilience and Risk Reduction and Army Comprehensive Soldier Fitness programs.
Puerto Rico National Guard brings special skills to Fuerzas Comando 2011
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Eric Sierra, a Puerto Rican National Guard Soldier assigned to the 191st Readiness Support Company, pumps fuel into a gas can for vehicles in support of the Fuerzas Comando 2011 competition June 13, 2011. Fuerzas Comando, established in 2004, is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored special operations skills competition and senior leader seminar which is conducted annually in Central and South America and the Caribbean and is scheduled to run June 15-23.
Father and son fly high with Illinois Army National Guard
June 20, 2011
Guard-led task force wins hearts 'one patient at a time'
June 20, 2011
235th Military Police Company directs traffic as residents visit threatened homes
June 20, 2011
Army Pfc. Thad Buri, Watertown, a service member of the 235th Military Police Company, directs traffic at a traffic control point in Dakota Dunes, June 17, 2011. Buri and other members of the 235th Military Police Company are conducting traffic control and ID checks as local residents return to survey potential damages to their homes caused by the flooding of the Missouri River.
Bittersweet homecoming for Citizen-Soldier helping Joplin
June 20, 2011
When Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to provide state oversight for the debris removal the process, Missouri National Guardsman, Army Col. William A. Ward, was appointed commander of the task force. Ward was born in St. John’s Hospital, which was hit hard by the tornado and is less than a mile from the armory where his task force is based.
New York Army National Guard aviators retrieve boat from brink of Niagara Falls
June 20, 2011
A New York Army National Guard CH-47 based a the Army Aviation Support Facility in Rochester hoists a New York State Park Police out of the Niagara River on Sunday, June 19.
National Guard ever present for Midwest flood relief
June 20, 2011
Soldiers of the North Dakota National Guard's 816th Engineer Company (Horizontal) responded to a call June 14, 2011, to perform a sandbagging mission raising the levee near Burlington, N.D. Because of the heavy amounts of rain the state received, the 816th was tasked to raise several low spots on levees throughout their area.