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Guard reactivates only airborne battalion
September 13, 2010
Lt. Col. Douglas of O'Connell, commander of 1st Battalion of the 143rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), talks with Maj. Gen. Jose S. Mayorga, the adjutant general of the Texas National Guard, after the reactivation ceremony of the 1st Battalion of the 143rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) at the Texas State Technical College airport in Waco, Texas, Sept. 11, 2010.
Louisiana Air Guard takes communications lead for Task Force Kout Men
September 13, 2010
Members of the Louisiana Air National Guard’s 236th Combat Communications Squadron, Master Sgt. Travis Johnson, Tech. Sgt Jeffery Mace and Master Sgt. Jamie Robertson, install a satellite dish for the Joint Incident Site Communications Capability system. This system provided initial and sustained voice and data services for Task Force Kout Men, including the Morale Welfare and Recreation internet café and phones.
McKinley honors Serbian contributions in two world wars
September 13, 2010
Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, right, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Army Maj. Gen. Gregory Wayt, left, the adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard, lay a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mount Avala in Serbia on Sept. 11, 2010. "It was especially poignant today, on the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, when our nation was attacked, that I symbolically thank the Serbian military for their support to the United States in World War I and World War II," McKinley said. Serbia and Ohio are paired in the National Guard State Partnership Program.
Guard state partnerships great value for America, university leader says
September 13, 2010
Charles Wise, founding director of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, seen in Karadjordjevo, Serbia, on Sept. 12, 2010, where he is accompanying an Ohio National Guard delegation pursuing National Guard State Partnership Program activities. “I’ve been extremely impressed with the contribution of the National Guard,” he said. “The more I’ve learned about [the SPP] the more I’ve been impressed by not only how effective it is but how cost-effective it is in building relationships with significant countries like Serbia.”
National Guard leaders honor newest Serbian officers
September 13, 2010
Officer cadets from Serbia's Military Academy take part in a graduation ceremony in front of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sept. 11, 2010, attended by Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, Army Maj. Gen. Gregory Wayt, the adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard and other Guard leaders. Serbia is Ohio's partner in the 62-nation National Guard State Partnership Program.
New York Guard leaves for South African air show
September 13, 2010
Sgt. Kevin Ressler steadies the tail of an OH-58 Kiowa assigned to the New York Army National Guard's Detachment 1, Co. A, 1st Battalion 224 Security and Support Aviation as he and other maintainers prepare the aircraft for a flight to Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., on Sept. 13, 2010. Ressler, and four other members of the detachment, will accompany the aircraft to the Africa Aerospace and Defense Exposition 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. The helicopter will be loaded on board a giant C-5A Galaxy belonging to the 105th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard.
Texas Guard trains on emergency response at Rangers Ballpark
September 13, 2010
Ambassador: Ohio Guard strengthens relationship with Serbia
September 11, 2010
Michael Fitzpatrick, foreign policy advisor to the chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Jonita Whitaker, coordinator for foreign policy advisors in the State Department's Bureau for Political-Military Affairs, take notes during a meeting between Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward, commander, U.S. Africa Command, at AFRICOM headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, Aug. 12, 2010.
Air Guard 400 to determine NASCAR's top 12
September 10, 2010
Post 9/11: This isn't your father's National Guard
September 9, 2010
Launched from bases all over the United States, Air National Guard fighter and tankers moved quickly to protect America from further attacks on September 11, 2001. That morning 19 terrorists employed four hijacked airliners to destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and severely damage one section of the Pentagon. The attacks, which were executed by a shadowy radical Islamic group known as al-Qaeda, killed some 3,000 people during the bloodiest terrorist assault in U.S. history. American Airlines Flight 77, which had just taken off from Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia on a flight to Los Angeles, was seized by al-Qaeda terrorists and crashed through the Pentagon's western wall at 9:37 a.m. North Dakota's 119th Fighter Wing was stationed at the North American Aerospace Defense Command site on Langley AFB, Virginia. Shortly after the attack the 119th's F-16 fighters established a combat air patrol over the nation's capital. In addition to all the passengers aboard Flight 77, 125 people inside the Pentagon were killed and over 600 others were injured seriously enough that they had to be transported to local hospitals.