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Texas Guard 'biggest player" in Panamax exercise
August 19, 2008

Combat vets prepare Guardsmen for war zone
August 19, 2008
Cpl. Nicholas Sbano, a New York Pre-Mobilization Assistance Element Observer Controller/Trainer, discusses proper procedures before moving deploying Soldiers through a barbed wire obstacle course at Ft. Drum on August 8, 2008.

Predator passes 400,000 flight hours
August 19, 2008
An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft assigned to the Arizona Air National Guard's 214th Reconnaissance Group is parked in a hanger at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., following the unit's activation in August 2007.

Florida National Guard prepares for Tropical Storm Fay
August 18, 2008
Members of the Florida National Guard prepare for a shift change at the Joint Emergency Operations Center in St. Augustine. The center has been supporting operations in advance of Tropical Storm Fay since Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order on Saturday.

Poland's "Peace Sky" at home in Arizona
August 18, 2008
First Lt. Adam Jantas (left), a Polish Air Force student pilot, goes over his morning sortie with F-16 instructor pilot Maj. Julian Pacheco on the 162nd Fighter Wing flightline.

National Guard Soldiers learn benefits of logistics systems
August 18, 2008
Chief Warrant Officer Tom Marsh (left) and 1st Sgt. Kyle Heidenreich work on a preliminary deployment kit during a Logistics Enablers Overview Course Aug. 15 in Bismarck, N.D. Marsh uses the laptop to write information to the green tag, which will track equipment. The kit is one of several pieces of equipment covered during the weeklong course that included Soldiers from across the United States.

Air Guard Predator pilots increase combat air patrols
August 18, 2008
California Air National Guard MQ-1 Predator pilots meet in their hanger at March Air Reserve Base in November 2006 following the activation ceremony for the 196th Reconnaissance Squadron. The Air Guard squadron operates three combat air patrols in Iraq from the squadron's base operations center.

Building capable allies, strong bonds
August 15, 2008
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
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
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.