State Partnership Program News - The National Guard

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Building capable allies, strong bonds
August 15, 2008 — TUCSON, Ariz. (AFPN) - Over European castles, Middle Eastern deserts and Pacific islands, F-16... MORE

From the end of the runway at Tucson International Airport, an F-16 Fighting Falcon instructor pilot with the Arizona Air National Guard's 162nd Fighter Wing prepares to take off with his wingman, an international student pilot training with the Guard unit.

Texas Air Guard conducts medical training in Hawaii
August 15, 2008 — KAHUKU, Hawaii - In a plastic chair in the back of the room, a young man of no more than seventeen... MORE

Capt. Paul Ferguson Jr., of the Texas Air National Guard listens to patients at the Bobby Benson Center in Kahuku, Hawaii. Ferguson is part of a 51-person group of physicians, nurses and support personnel from the 149th Fighter Wing Medical Group in San Antonio, Texas working with the Hawaii ANG in support of the E Malama Kakou (To care for all) humanitarian program serving the medically underprivileged in Hawaii.

U.S. Air Guardsmen, Bosnians Restore Monument to Americans Killed in Sarajevo
August 15, 2008 — WASHINGTON - Next to a dirt road cut into the hillside of Mount Igman, southwest of Sarajevo in... MORE

Air Force Master Sgt. Robert A. Gordon and Tech. Sgt. Shaun Blische of the Maryland Air National Guard's 175th Civil Engineer Squadron, restore a monument at Mount Igman, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The monument memorializes three American diplomats and their French driver, who were killed at the site in 1995. The memorial is being restored as part of a humanitarian civic action project under the National Guard's State Partnership Program.

Air Guard pilot cheers for his brother in 2008 Olympics
August 15, 2008 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Like two jet fighters in formation, Justin Dumais and his younger brother, Troy,... MORE

Troy, left, and 1st Lt. Justin Dumais of the South Carolina Air National Guard finished sixth in the men's synchronized three-meter springboard diving event in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. This year, Dumais is an F-16 student in the Night Systems Training Course at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. And his younger brother is in Beijing alone.

Louisiana National Guard's Task Force Voodoo returns to Iraq
August 14, 2008 — JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - It's technically the battalion's second deployment in the past five years... MORE

Alabama National Guard holds first Yellow Ribbon program
August 14, 2008 — MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama National Guard held its first Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program... MORE

Company focuses on families to support military employees
August 13, 2008 — WASHINGTON - Kim Robinson knows that when military members deploy, they face a lot of stress... MORE

Study spurs reassessment of alcohol awareness programs
August 13, 2008 — WASHINGTON - Defense Department officials are assessing ways to better prepare servicemembers,... MORE

National Guard detachment trains at NFL preseason game
August 13, 2008 — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Reporting from the sidelines of an NFL preseason game is not typical duty for... MORE

Spc. James Cornwell (left) and Staff Sgt. Blair Heusdens of the 107th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment videotape and shoot photos of the Jacksonville Jaguars pre-season NFL game at the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 9, 2008.

Alaska National Guard Rescues Injured Climber
August 12, 2008 — CAMP DENALI, Alaska - The Alaska Air National Guard rescued an injured climber off Root Glacier in... MORE

New Jersey, New York Officer Candidates Train with Albanian, Kosovar Cadets

Virginia Guard Soldiers, Tajikistan Conduct Battle Exchange Training

Michigan-Sierra Leone Partnership Moves Ahead with Multidisciplinary Engagements

Paraguayan President Awards Top Honor to Massachusetts National Guard General

AFRICOM, National Guard Chaplains Participate in Southern African Development Community Conference