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Canada, Army Guard meet to build relationships
December 18, 2008
Canadian military police participate in the 24th annual Golden Coyote exercise in June. The exercise, hosted by the South Dakota National Guard, was held in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota. Canada was one of four foreign nations to train with the more than 4,000 U.S. servicemembers from 92 units representing 27 states. Training opportunities like this between the Guard and Canada are planned out at the Cross Border Working Group which was held at the Army National Guard Readiness Center, Arlington, Va., in December.
G-RAP celebrates third anniversary
December 18, 2008
Several of the leading recruiting assistants from each of the pilot states are recognized on Dec. 15 by Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn, director of the Army National Guard, for their outstanding recruiting in their respective states.
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.