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New York LC-130 leaves Hickam for Operation Deep Freeze
October 22, 2010
Master Sgt. Joseph Sinatra checks the air spring pressure on an LC-130 Hercules during a stop at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, Oct. 18, 2010. The springs are used to absorb the shock of landing the ski-equipped aircraft on the Antarctic ice. Sinatra and the rest of his LC-130 aircrew from the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing at Stratton Air National Guard Base, N.Y.stopped at Hickam, while en route to Antarctica to support Operation Deep Freeze, the Defense Department's logistical support to U.S. research activities at the southernmost continent.
Nevada Guard prepares Canadian aviators for deployment
October 22, 2010
Canadian Air Force Capt. Cameron Fisher, next to rotors, and U.S. Army Sgt. Tommy Rogers, from B Company, 1st Battalion, 189th Aviation Regiment, perform pre-flight checks on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter prior to flying a mission to recover wreckage from a downed U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nev., Oct. 20, 2010. Soldiers from the 189th trained with the Canadian CH-47 crews to prepare them for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.
United Arab Emirates wraps up F-16 training in Arizona
October 22, 2010
United Arab Emirates Air Force and Air Defense pilots and maintenance officers salute as an F-16F Desert Falcon taxis on the 162nd Fighter Wing flight line at Tucson International Airport for the last time Oct. 20, 2010. Five of 13 UAE fighters stationed here since 2004 for training began the journey home while the rest will follow over the next month.
Air Guardsman leads support efforts in Antarctic
October 21, 2010
Lt. Col. Edward Vaughan, commander of 13th Expeditionary Support Squadron, Joint Task Force-Support Forces Antarctica.
Final competition to determine the Army’s ‘Best Warriors’
October 21, 2010
Army Staff Sgt. Adam Little of the Michigan National Guard replaces his sling as part of his equipment check during the 2010 Army Best Warrior Competition at Fort Lee, Va., Oct. 20, 2010. Little became the National Guard's top non-commissioned officer after winning the National Guard Best Warrior competition at Fort Benning, Ga., in July.
Georgia recruits, recruiters clean-up two sites
October 21, 2010
From the left, Spc. Marc Williams, Staff Sgt. Michelle Kendrick and Pvt. Michael Johnson, all of the Georgia National Guard, plant one of two cherry trees along the fence surrounding Macon’s historic Fort Hawkins.
45th BCT receives new spy in the sky
October 21, 2010
Spc. Blake Daniels attaches streamers to one of the RQ-7's antennas during a post flight inspection. He is an RQ-7 "Shadow" maintainer with the 45th Special Troops Battalion, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Oklahoma Army National Guard.
Air Force migrates information, services to new total-force website
October 21, 2010
Graphic by U.S. Air Force
Alaska Guard assists Fish and Game to clean-up Goose Bay
October 20, 2010
Soldiers assigned to the 207th Combat Support Company of the Alaska Army National Guard from left to right, Staff Sgt. Joseluis Villasenor, a wheeled vehicle mechanic, Staff Sgt. Edwin Brunner, a motor transport operator, and Spc. Ryan Graney, a wheeled vehicle mechanic, release the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) Wrecker crane hook from a rusted vehicle at Goose Bay State Game Refuge Oct. 17, 2010. About 60 Alaska National Guard Soldiers and recruits joined efforts with the state's Department of Fish and Game to clean up an estimated 20 tons from the dumpsite, which included eight abandoned vehicles.
Former Guardsman rescues historic Apache
October 20, 2010
Tom Wojnar, a Washington State Department of Natural Resources helicopter mechanic and Army Vietnam War veteran, stands in front of the AH-1G Cobra helicopter at a DNR property in Tumwater, Wash., Oct. 6, 2010. The "Virginia Rose II" flew into the history books as the first AH-1G to fly in Vietnam on Sept. 4, 1967.