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PATRIOT '08 exercise meets units' training needs
July 28, 2008
Two Louisiana Guard Blackhawks respond to Yosemite fire
July 28, 2008
British soldiers join forces with Georgia National Guard in Patriot '08
July 28, 2008
Soldiers with the British army's 4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, head out on a foot patrol during exercise Patriot '08 at Fort McCoy, Wisc., Monday July 21, 2008. Patriot '08 was a large-scale training exercise that brought together elements from the U.S. Army and Air Force as well as units from the British, Dutch and Canadian armies.
McKinley: Airmen play key roles in joint National Guard
July 25, 2008
Lt. Gen. Craig McKinley, the director of the Air National Guard, and his wife, Cheryl McKinley, attend the National Guard Bureau Joint Family Program Volunteer Workshop and Youth Symposium in St. Louis, Mo., on July 21, 2008. The secretary of defense has nominated McKinley to be the next chief of the National Guard Bureau and to be the National Guard's first four-star general.
Mullen: National Guard essential to the warfight
July 25, 2008
Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells 1,500 people gathered for the largest-ever National Guard Bureau Joint Family Program Volunteer Workshop and Youth Symposium in St. Louis, Mo., on July 21, 2008, that, "I put family support on an equal plain with individual and unit performance and sacrifice and service, because we cannot do it without you."
Guard pilot's fitness program goes nationwide
July 25, 2008
Maryland Civil Engineers Restore Bosnian Memorial
July 25, 2008
Master Sgt. Robert A. Gordon and Tech. Sgt. Shaun Blische, both members of the 175th Civil Engineer Squadron of the Maryland Air National Guard, restore a monument at Mount Igman, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The monument memorializes three American diplomats and their French driver, who were killed at the site in 1995. The memorial is being restored by members of the Maryland National Guard as part of a humanitarian civic action project under the auspices of the National Guard's State Partnership Program.
Mullen: Guard families connect America, the armed forces
July 25, 2008
Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells 1,500 people gathered for the largest-ever National Guard Bureau Joint Family Program Volunteer Workshop and Youth Symposium in St. Louis, Mo., on July 21, 2008, that caring for wounded servicemembers and the families of those killed serving their country is a national responsibility. "In the end, it's America that can do this," Mullen says. "It's not DoD, and it's not the VA. We've all got to do this together."
JTF-East training rotating from Romania to Bulgaria
July 25, 2008
Soldiers train on the Engagement Skills Trainer 2000 at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase, Romania. Some 900 Soldiers are now in Romania, as part of Joint Task Force - East, to conduct training there with members of the Romanian military.
Texas military forces ready for Hurricane Dolly landfall
July 24, 2008
Army Sergeant 1st Class Jeff Printy marshals in nine light-medium tactical vehicles deployed from San Antonio to the Standing Joint InterAgency Task Force headquarters located at the Army National Guard Armory July 22 in Weslaco, Texas. Texas lilitary forces came to southern Texas in anticipation of heavy flood relief efforts caused by Hurricane Dolly.