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Puerto Rico National Guard gives scoop on helicopter buckets to its state partners
May 12, 2017
Guard members from Puerto Rico answer questions about helicopter bucket use in forest fires for a visiting delegation from their visitors in the State Partnership Program in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Indiana National Guard unit rehearses with partner Slovakia during Saber Junction 17 exercise
May 11, 2017
Maj. Gen. David Wood, commanding general, 38th Infantry Division, and Sgt. Maj. James Martin, command sergeant major, 38th Infantry Division, visit the operations center during Saber Junction 17 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany May 4, 2017.
Wyoming National Guard and Tunisia continue to perfect partnership
May 9, 2017
In 2016, the Wyoming National Guard began the Humanitarian Mining Action mission, a State Partnership Program-leveraged program, in Tunisia. The HMA is a Department of Defense program that provides education and training in finding, clearing and securing land mines and other explosive remnants of war. In March 2017, a team of engineers from the Wyoming Army National Guard traveled to Tunisia to assist with advising them on building a culvert that would act as a training site in finding and clearing culverts of explosive hazards.
Trans-Pacific disaster exercise Gobi Wolf 2017 concludes in Mongolia
May 9, 2017
Mongolia National Emergency Management Agency Brig. Gen. Badral Tuvshin greets U.S. Army Maj. Edwin Morton, Gobi Wolf 2017 exercise director and lead U.S. planner, May 1, 2017, during an exercise reception dinner in Dalanzadgad, Mongolia. GW 17 was hosted by the Mongolia National Emergency Management Agency and Mongolian Armed Forces as part of the United States Army Pacific’s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief “Pacific Resilience” series.
National Guard engineers make their own path in Romania
May 8, 2017
Spc. Jeffrey Nichols of the 381st Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, United States Army Reserves, bulldozes rock for a road on the Non-Standard Live-Fire Range at Joint National Training Center, Cincu, Romania, as part of Resolute Castle 17. Resolute Castle 17 is an exercise strengthening the NATO alliance and enhancing its capacity for joint training and response to threats within the region.
Salvadoran partners engage in Best Warrior Competition with New Hampshire Soldiers
May 5, 2017
Cpl. Rudy Santos Santos of Comando Especial Antiterrorista of the El Salvadoran Army operates an M249 light machine gun during the New Hampshire National Guard's 2017 Best Warrior competition at New Castle April 9. This year marked the first time two Soldiers from El Salvador, New Hampshire’s State Military partner, competed in the three-day competition alongside 22 New Hampshire Guardsmen, showing off skills in marksmanship, first aid, physical training and land navigation among others.
ANZAC Day: Task Force Spartan senior leaders pay tribute to Allies’ fallen Soldiers
May 5, 2017
Soldiers of the Australian New Zealand Army Corps commemmorate ANZAC day at the Australian Embassy in Kuwait City Kuwait April 25, 2017. The ceremony remembers the ANZAC forces landing at Gallipolli, Turkey April 25, 1915.
Colorado National Guard trains and partners in the mountains of Slovenia
April 27, 2017
Colorado National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and Citizen-Airmen participate in the 10th anniversary NATO Non-Commissioned Officer Winter Camp in the mountains of Slovenia, March 3-10, 2017. The Colorado-Slovenia partnership is part of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program.
Belize leaders visit Louisiana Youth Challenge Programs
April 26, 2017
Louisiana National Guard Youth Challenge Program cadets tell their stories to key leaders from Belize during their tour of YCP at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, Louisiana, April 11, 2017. The Belize leaders are hoping to start a youth development program similar to the Guard’s YCP program in Louisiana to give at-risk youth a chance at a better future in Belize.
Virginia and Maryland National Guard units among those participating in Kuwait exercise
April 25, 2017
U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council forces conduct the culminating field-training event of exercise Eagle Resolve 2017, April 6, 2017, in Kuwait's Shuwaikh Port. Eagle Resolve is the premier multi-national exercise in the Gulf region.