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Louisiana Guard supports shoreline protection mission
May 13, 2010
Aviation Command work to fill breaches with 3,000 to 5,000-pound sandbags in Lafourche Parish in an effort to keep oil tainted water from moving to closer to the coast of Louisiana May 11, 2010. These Guardsmen were activated in support of operations related to the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.

“It takes the strength and courage of a warrior to ask for help”
May 13, 2010
Army Maj. Gen. William Wofford, the adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard, and Army Capt. Tanya Phillips, the state's suicide prevention program manager, discuss a Soldier's case before visiting with him at the Central Arkansas Veterans Heathcare System's Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center on April 17, 2010. "It takes the strength and courage of a warrior to ask for help," Wofford said. The Arkansas National Guard has aggressively pursued innovative ways to help troubled Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen since leaders first noticed increased warning signs about two years ago.

Air Force officials announce FY 2011 force structure alignments
May 12, 2010

DoD official urges reserve component funding, predictability
May 12, 2010
Department of Defense Seal

Guard teams finish in top 15 of Best Ranger event
May 12, 2010
Capt. Robert May (left) and 1st Sgt. Kevin Dylus cross the finish line at the end of the grueling Best Ranger competition at Fort Benning, Ga., May 9, 2010. May and Dylus were one of 25 teams that finished the competition out of 40 that began. The two Soldiers represented the North Carolina Army National Guard.

DoD to study Guard compensation, incentives
May 12, 2010
Department of Defense Seal

Alaska Guard rescues infant in respiratory failure
May 12, 2010
A three-month-old child suffering respiratory failure and mother are transported from an Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk to a LifeMed Alaska aircraft May 8 at the Bethel airport. Guardsmen transported the infant from the Hooper Bay clinic to Bethel with two flight medics from LifeMed Alaska onboard

Louisiana Guard continues to push in Grand Isle
May 12, 2010
Heavy equipment operators from the Louisiana National Guard's 922nd
 Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion, bulldoze sand to
 close a strait between two peninsulas near Grand Isle, La., May 10, 2010.
 The closure will be a secondary defense in addition to the boom line in the
 Gulf of Mexico to prevent any oil from reaching further inland.

81st CST practices air load at Minot
May 12, 2010
North Dakota's 81st Civil Support Team lines their equipment outside the belly of a C-17 Globemaster at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., May 5, 2010.

Partnership offers new options with C-130 training
May 12, 2010
Air Force officials have announced a plan to augment the C-130 Hercules training fleet with C-130s, like those shown here, from the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve.