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Air National Guard security forces deploying over 500 to bases in Southwest Asia
May 28, 2008
Arizona Air National Guard's 162nd Fighter Wing security forces troops load their gear on a KC-135 tanker at Tucson International Airport Feb. 24 on their way to Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, for a six-month deployment. The 19 Airmen, who provide full-time security for the Tucson International Airport, will use their training and expertise to secure Iraq's largest airport. The Airmen are scheduled to return to Tucson in early September. They make up about 1,100 Air National Guard security forces deployed to Southwest Asia in fiscal year 2008.
Comrades, Loved Ones Provide Reminders of Memorial Day's Meaning
May 23, 2008
A mass grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery honors the 12 soldiers killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was shot down near Baghdad on Jan. 20, 2007.
Military Better Prepared Than Ever for Disaster Relief, Official Says
May 22, 2008
Additional Wyoming National Guard Soldiers sent to Bagg
May 22, 2008
Soldiers from the Wyoming Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Company, and a local civilian, prepare sand bags to be stacked along the banks of the Little Snake River in Baggs, Wyo., May 21, 2008, to prevent the town from flooding. The 33 Soldiers work in 12 hour shifts. The unit has been working to save the town since May 19.
Thailand welcomes Louisiana, honors fallen Soldiers
May 22, 2008
Army Lt. Col. George Kranske, commander of 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment of the Lousiana Army National Guard steps up to honor the fallen Soldiers of his battalion as well as those of the Royal Thai Army during a memorial wreath laying ceremony held during the 2008 Cobra Gold exercise held in May.
Face of Defense: Guardsman Trains, Deploys With Active-Duty Division
May 22, 2008
Army Maj. Barry Hafer, left, a Marshall, Texas, native, helps review population perception while going over plans with Army Maj. Keith Chinn, an Elk Grove, Calif., native, at Camp Liberty, Iraq, May 10, 2008. Hafer, a member of 5th Battalion, 112th Artillery Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard, is attached to 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, and is serving as the division's Red Team leader. Chinn is an operations analyst in the division plans shop.
Bushes express condolences to Chinese; Air Guard delivers aid team
May 21, 2008
Officer, NCO awarded place in history
May 21, 2008
Sgt. 1st Class John Craig, left, with Maj. David Guido in the Joint Staff Flag Room at the Pentagon on May 16, 2008, after LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, presented Craig with the Joint Services Achievement Medal and Guido with the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. It was the first joint award ceremony since the National Guard Bureau became a joint activity of the Department of Defense when President George W. Bush signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 on Jan. 28, 2008.
CounterDrug Guardsman gets revved up for motorcycle safety
May 20, 2008
Army Guard Sgt. 1st Class James Hockett poses with his 2006 Harley Davidson Night Train at the 2008 National Capital Region Joint Services Motorcycle Safety Event at the Pentagon May 1.
New York Guardsmen Support Task Force Phoenix in Afghanistan
May 19, 2008