Home : News : State Partnership Program
Results:
Category: Guard News

New York Guardsmen fire new guns at Camp Blanding
March 16, 2010
New York Army National Guard Soldiers from Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Field Artillery Regiment's Gun Three team fire a high-explosive round from their M119A2 howitzer during the unit's gun crew qualification March 12 on Camp Blanding, Florida.

'Rock star' students inspire Guard officers
March 16, 2010
Watched by an audience that includes members of the Senate Youth Program, a Soldier guards the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on a rainy March 12, 2010. National Guuard officers served as military mentors for the 104 high schoolers selected for a week in the nation's capital that included meeting the president, a Supreme Court justice and other leaders from the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.

'Civilian surge' comes to life at Camp Atterbury
March 15, 2010
Army Staff Sgt. Ken Fodrie of the Indiana National Guard teaches an emergency-aid class to Defense Department civilians at the Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in central Indiana, March 3, 2010. The class is part of a five-day course designed to mobilize the civilians to deploy to Iraq.

Care plan to include parents with custody
March 15, 2010

North Dakota Guard mobilizes for flood duty today
March 15, 2010
Col. Ron Solberg, commander of the 119th Support Group of the
North Dakota National Guard, right, addresses full-time North Dakota Air
National Guard personnel as he initiates personnel mobilization plans for
the regional flood fight beginning in the Red River Valley in Fargo, N.D.,
March 15, 2010. The North Dakota National Guard plan calls for 300-400
personnel to be voluntarily placed on state active duty orders within
24-hours. The plans provide for all of the same flood fighting missions that
the North Dakota National Guard provided in the historic flood fight in the
spring of 2009.

Air Guard engineers help Haitians return to homes
March 15, 2010
An Airman with the 118th Civil Engineering Squadron, gives candy to a child at the New Life Children's Home in Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday, March 12, 2010. Members of the squadron have been working at the home, a local orphanage that has also taken in many children injured by the January earthquake, building cabinets, storage areas and a medical clinic.

Army celebrates delivery of 100th Lakota
March 15, 2010

Army Guard strives to improve medical readiness
March 15, 2010
Sgt. Nicole Davidson undergoes a dental exam as part of the Sustained Readiness Program at Marseilles Training Center in preparation for the deployment of 440 Illinois National Guard Soldiers to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Davidson is a member of the 2nd Battalion, 123rd Field Artillery Regiment based in Milan, Ill., which is scheduled to deploy to Egypt in May. The Soldiers will be part of the Multinational Force and Observers. The international peacekeeping force oversees the terms of the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

Army, Air Guard directors visit North Dakota
March 12, 2010
Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, the director of the Air National Guard, left, shakes hands with Senior Master Sgt. Eric Johnson of the 119th Wing of the North Dakota Air National Guard. Wyatt and Army Maj. Gen. Ray Carpenter, the acting director of the Army National Guard, visited with nearly 500 North Dakota Guard members, who were gathered for the Professional Development Workshop and Combined Associations Conference in Fargo, N.D., March 12, 2010. Col. Kent Olson, also of the 119th Wing, is in the middle.

First Sergeant Academy curriculum, organization mirrors total force
March 12, 2010