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Air Force officials announce FY 2011 force structure alignments
May 12, 2010 — CAMP ATTERBURY JOINT MANEUVER WASHINGTON - Air Force officials announced May 11 the proposed force... MORE

DoD official urges reserve component funding, predictability
May 12, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - Emphasizing the critical role the reserve components play in U.S. national defense,... MORE

Guard teams finish in top 15 of Best Ranger event
May 12, 2010 — FORT BENNING, Ga., - The Army National Guard made a strong showing in the 27th annual David E... MORE

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 — WASHINGTON, - Defense Department officials today announced the start of the congressionally mandated... MORE

Alaska Guard rescues infant in respiratory failure
May 12, 2010 — CAMP DENALI, Alaska - The Alaska Army National Guard's 207th Aviation, based out of Bethel, was... MORE

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 — GRAND ISLE, La., - The Louisiana National Guard is conductingaround-the-clock operations to fill in... MORE

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 — MINOT, N.D., - North Dakota's 81st Civil Support Team (CST) dispatched personnel and equipment... MORE

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 — WASHINGTON - The secretary of the Air Force announced May 4 that officials will proceed with a plan... MORE

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.

Louisiana Guard begins filling breaches
May 11, 2010 — BATON ROUGE, La., - The Louisiana National Guard began fillingone of five breaches by dropping large... MORE

A Louisiana National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter delivers a 4,500-pound sandbag to one of five breaches along the coast of the southeast side of Lafourche Parish, May 10, 2010.

DoD officials authorize medal for Haiti relief efforts
May 11, 2010 — RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas - Department of Defense officials have approved the Humanitarian... MORE

New Hampshire Guard, El Salvador Celebrate 25th Anniversary of State Partnership Program

New York Guard to Help Sweden With Division-Level Command Post Exercise

Washington Guard, Thai Armed Forces Conclude Successful Enduring Partners 25

Nordhaus Joins Indo-Pacific Chiefs of Defense Conference to Strengthen State Partnership Program

North Carolina Air Guard Hosts Mini African Military Law Forum