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Kentucky Air Guard Airmen support 101st Airborne Division’s movement to Liberia
October 21, 2014
U.S. Air Force Col. David Mounkes, a Kentucky Air National Guard member and commander of Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal, discusses the unit’s mission with a delegation representing the U.S. Agency for International Development at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 16, 2104. The JTF-PO is funneling humanitarian supplies and equipment into West Africa as part of Operation United Assistance, the international effort to fight Ebola. USAID is the lead federal agency coordinating the U.S. government’s multi-agency response.
Citizen-Soldier brothers from New Jersey deploying to Southwest Asia
October 20, 2014
Davis and Dave Valentin, brothers who grew up in Ridgefield Park, N.J., are deploying to Southwest Asia with their New Jersey National Guard unit.
Georgia National Guard joins Canadians for complex exercise
October 14, 2014
Georgia Guard members with Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, conduct an amphibious insertion on Lake Erie as part of the Stalwart Guardian training exercise in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in August, 2014.
Five countries, two National Guards, one mission: Operation Atlantic Resolve
October 10, 2014
Canadian Army Maj. Edward Jun (left), commander, Company M, 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment; Polish army Capt. Marcin Wilga (2nd from left), commander, 2nd Assault Company, 18th Airborne Battalion, 6th Airborne Brigade; and U.S. Army Capt. Matthew McCarthy (right), commander, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, meet after commanding their units in a combined training exercise at Ziemsko Airfield, Poland, July 17. The exercise is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve and is intended to strengthen U.S. Army Europe’s (USAREUR) familiarity and commitment to its’ NATO allies.
Arizona Soldiers take part in European operation with partner nation Kazakhstan
October 10, 2014
Arizona National Guard, 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment Soldiers, together with Moldovan soldiers, face an aggressive crowd of rioters throwing smoke and rocks during a situational training exercise as part of Steppe Eagle 2014 exercise, Oct. 4, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany.
Kentucky Air Guard unit establishes cargo hub in Senegal for Ebola response
October 8, 2014
Air Force Lt. Col. Bruce Bancroft of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group talks to unit members about their role in Operation United Assistance during a briefing in the Joint Operations Center at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 5, 2014. The Kentucky Air Guard members stood up an Intermediate Staging Base at the airport that will funnel humanitarian supplies and equipment into West Africa as part of the international effort to fight Ebola.
Vermont adjutant general boosts state's partnership with Macedonia
October 8, 2014
Maj. Gen. Steven Cray and State Command Sgt. Maj. Toby Quick receive a briefing from a soldier in the Army of the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonia's Army Medical Unit has Role 2 medical capabilities and will probably be the focus of the tri-lateral engagement between Macedonia and Senegal, Vermont's two State Partnership Program countries, Sept. 22, 2014.
Longtime partners Illinois National Guard and Poland complete exercise
October 7, 2014
Col. Mark Jackson, commanding officer of the 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, shakes hands with Bronislaw Komorowski, the president of Poland, in Orzysz, Poland, Oct. 2, 2014. Jackson presented Komorowski a plaque on behalf of the 33rd IBCT.
California National Guard Soldiers complete two weeks of training with Indian counterparts
October 3, 2014
California Army National Guard Commander Maj. Gen. Lawrence Haskins addresses U.S. and Indian army troops during the closing ceremony for Yudh Abhyas 2014 on Sept. 30 at Chaubattia Cantonment, India.
Kentucky Air Guard deploying forces to Africa in support of Ebola mission
October 2, 2014
Airmen with the 123rd Contingency Response Group prepare for their deployment to West Africa from the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 2, 2014. The Guardsmen will work to set up a logistics hub in support of Operation United Assistance.