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Surinamese visit focuses on PTSD treatment
December 18, 2008

Wisconsin-Nicaragua: A model for the state partnership program
December 18, 2008
Key officers of the Wisconsin National Guard pay a goodwill visit to Nicaragua, hosted by Nicaragua's Ejercito (defense force). Wisconsin has a longstanding sister-state relationship with Nicaragua, and the Wisconsin National Guard is paired with the Nicaraguan Ejercito in the National Guard State Partnership Program.

Seven states participate in Yama Sakura 55
December 17, 2008
CAMP ASAKA, JAPAN - Army Sgt. 1st Class Tony Bowling (left), first sergeant for Headquarters Company, 8th Theater Sustainment Command out of Fort Shafter, Hawaii, gets a lesson in the art of Calligraphy from Sgt. Maj. Kazuhiko Shimizu of the JGSDF's 104th General Support Battalion, Dec. 3, 2008, at the camp's Freedom Room. Bowling, who hails from Canton, Ill., is one of more than 1,000 American Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen participating in Yama Sakura 55, along with their counterparts from the Japanese ground, air and maritime services. Yama Sakura is a bilateral U.S.-Japan, computerized command post exercise designed to better the defense of Japan, and to protect each country's interests throughout East Asia.

Guardsmen selected for Army All-American Bowl
December 16, 2008

New forces to bolster homeland defense mission
December 15, 2008

Guard taking on sexual assault through support, education
December 15, 2008

California guardsmen train for Kosovo deployment
December 15, 2008
Army Capt. Michael Riley, commander of Company C, 1-185th Combined Arms Battalion, and Army Brig. Gen. Keith Jones, assistant deputy adjutant general for California's Army National Guard, get front-row action as they observe a M2 Bradley fighting vehicle live-fire exercise at Camp Shelby, Miss. The exercise is part of training to ready the 1-185th CAB for a deployment to Kosovo.

Religious support teams help heal invisible wounds
December 15, 2008
Chaplin (Maj.) Wendell Rome, Staff Sgt. Terry Mueth, Capt. Lawrence Onyejekwe and Capt. Anna Mann pray with Airman 1st Class Wyndal Boothe in the Air Force Theater Hospital Nov. 25 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Airman Boothe, a force protection augmentee with the 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, received treatment for pneumonia. He is deployed from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., where he is an aerospace maintenance apprentice. His hometown is Lubbock, Texas.

Connecticut Guard responds to neighbor's call for help
December 15, 2008
Guardsmen from the 379th Engineer Company of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, use a front end loader to get a better look at a damaged utility pole in Phillipston, Mass., on Dec. 14, 2008. The 379th was mobilized when Gov. Deval L. Patrick declared a state of emergency on Dec., 12, 2008.

CNGB birthday message
December 12, 2008