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Florida Army National Guard shares experience with Central America
June 15, 2016
Staff Sgt. Bitzer and Spc. Hernandez cover terrain models during a class on troop-leading procedures with Reconaissance Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Brigade on May 12, 2016.

Minnesota and Croatia celebrate 20 years of partnership
June 10, 2016
Soldiers of the Minnesota Army National Guard 851st Vertical Engineer Company, Airmen from the Minnesota Air National Guard 148th and 133rd Civil Support Squadron along with the Croatian Army Engineering Horizontal Construction Company work together for repairs and to rebuild parts of a primary school in Karlovec, Croatia.

North Carolina unit joins exercise Anakonda 16 in Poland
June 9, 2016
High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems crews of the 5th Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment, North Carolina Army National Guard, travel throughout training areas in Drawsko Pomorski, Poland, as part of Exercise Anakonda 16 June 1, 2016. AN16 is a Polish national exercise that seeks to train, exercise and integrate Polish national command and force structures into an allied, joint and multinational environment.

Alabama Army National Guard makes large construction strides in Romania
June 7, 2016
Cpl. Gigi Done, engineer, 10th Engineer Brigade, Romanian Land Forces; Sgt. Steve Reece, electrician, 877th Engineer Battalion Alabama Army National Guard and Cpl. Baluta, engineer, 10th Engineer Brigade, Romanian Land Forces, work together to cut boards used for building a multipurpose building, May 22, 2016, in Cincu, Romania. The building is on Cincu Training Range and the partnership between the U.S. and Romanian forces is part of Resolute Castle 16, a joint training operation between U.S. and NATO forces focused on building strong partnerships among NATO allies.

South Carolina National Guard hosts Colombian military law experts during exchange
June 3, 2016
Seven members of the Colombian military meet with the University of South Carolina's Rule of Law Collaborative in Columbia, S.C., May 23, during a Subject Matter Expert Exchange with the South Carolina National Guard's State Partnership Program. The week-long information exchange with Colombian military and National Police legal experts focused on human rights and operational law.

Alaska National Guard leads field medical training in Mongolia
June 2, 2016
Alaska Army National Guard members conduct a class on combat casualty care at Five Hills Training Area near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on May 30, 2016.

South Carolina National Guard strengthens ties during Exercise Eager Lion
June 1, 2016
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Brad Owens, director of Joint Staff for the South Carolina National Guard, provides closing remarks during the recognition ceremony for participants of Eager Lion 16. Eager Lion is a bilateral, scenario-based exercise with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, designed to exchange military expertise and improve interoperability among partner nations.

Two months after being split among four nations, Airmen reunite in Bulgaria
May 31, 2016
U.S. Air Force and Massachusetts Air National Guard members stationed at Amari Air Base, Estonia,are reunited with their 104th Fighter Wing members stationed to Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Bulgaria, May 27, 2016.  Wing members are part of a theater security package deployed to multiple European locations in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

Nevada coaches record number of agencies in Tonga on drug identification
May 26, 2016
A record number of agencies, 10, were on board for the Nevada National Guard/Kingdom of Tonga State Partnership Program exchange here May 9-13 that focused on drug identification and included two maritime sessions that spotlighted ship embarkment and evidence discovery.

New Mexico National Guard medics share knowledge with Costa Rican Coast Guard members
May 25, 2016
Twenty-two Costa Rican Guarda Costas attended a two-day workshop conducted by Sgt. 1st. Class David Muniz and Sgt. Michael Marfia, medics from New Mexico National Guard, as part of the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program. Marfia explains how to properly apply a tourniquet to a leg wound to half of the participants. Muniz and Marfia shared their medical knowledge with the Coast Guard members on topics ranging from anatomy, triage, assessing breathing and consciousness, applying a tourniquet, splinting broken limbs and responding to a mass casualty incident.