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Texas Army National Guard Soldiers work with Ugandan Soldiers
June 25, 2012
Uganda Peoples Defense Force soldiers demonstrate elements of a deliberate attack drill Army Sgt. 1st Class Curtis Stille, from 3rd Squadron, 124th Cavalry Regiment. The UPDF invited the U.S. Soldiers to participate in a best-practices exchange where they conducted various military-to-military exchanges in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, whose mission is to build partnerships with nations in East Africa.

Suriname military leaders, South Dakota National Guard exchange leadership training, team building techniques
June 18, 2012
Suriname Army Maj. Richardo Breinburg hands Spc. Frank Doll, with the South Dakota Army National Guard, a stretcher while conducting a task on the Leader Reaction Course at West Camp Rapid, S.D., as part of the South Dakota Guard's Golden Coyote training exercise June 11, 2012. The South Dakota Guard hosted military leaders from the Republic of Suriname for a week long Subject Matter Expert Exchange.

Wyoming Air Guard members exchange aeromedical evacuation knowledge with Tunisian partners
June 14, 2012
Medical personnel of the Tunisian military prepare for training at the Medlite 2012 exercise in Bizerte, Tunisia, May 22, 2012 with members of the Wyoming Air National Guard. The Wyoming National Guard and Tunisia have been partners through the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program since 2004. Wyoming Air National Guard personnel have participated in a number of exercises and exchanges in Tunisia since the partnership began.

Idaho National Guard partnership with Cambodia gains momentum
June 7, 2012
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Maj. Srey Saran, left, shows a radiator problem he discovered to Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Wohlers, a vehicle maintenance instructor with the Idaho Army National Guard's Regional Training Site Maintenance Facility, during a preventative maintenance checks and services inspection May 17 near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Wohlers was one of six vehicle maintenance and logistics experts from Idaho's RTSM to go on the subject matter expert exchange. The Idaho-Cambodia partnership began in 2009 and this is Wohlers' third visit to Cambodia.

Minnesota National Guard Soldiers train with partners in Croatia
May 31, 2012
Soldiers from the Minnesota Army National Guard's 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment train with members of the Croatian army in Knin, Croatia, May 16, 2012 during Guardex 12.

Kosovo: Wisconsin Guard members get close-combat training
May 31, 2012
Soldiers assigned to Multinational Battle Group East participate in the basic combatives course at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo May 11, 2012. The course, which began May 7 and was part of Modern Army Combatives, is the entry level program to prepare Soldiers to defeat the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

Afghanistan: New Mexico Army National Guard MEDEVAC crew puts service before self to rescue wounded Marine
May 30, 2012
Soldiers from C Company, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment, land in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during a training flight on Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan. Soldiers from the unit recently transported a critically wounded Marine who had live rocket propelled grenade round embedded in his leg. Without the quick thinking of the air crew, the Marine would not have survived.

Afghanistan: Louisiana National Guard transportation company braves one of Afghanistan's deadliest roads under cover of darkness
May 29, 2012
A convoy led by the Louisiana National Guard's 1086th Transportation Company, Task Force Muleskinner, makes its way through Kabul May 23, 2012. The unit was completing a 400-mile convoy from Bagram Air Field to Forward Operating Base Warrior and back as security for more than a dozen Afghan-owned cargo trucks, taking one of Afghanistan's most dangerous roads - Highway 1.

Ghana: North Dakota engineers work with Ghanaian army engineers
May 24, 2012
Army Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Pearson, with the 166th regiment, Regional Training Institute, works through an engineering problem with combat engineers from the Ghanaian army using a scale model of a bridge at the Ghanaian army's Coker-Appiah Engineer Training School in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, May 17, 2012. Pearson was working with the Ghanaian engineers as part of a week-long engineer course through the State Partnership Program, which partners National Guard units with 65 countries throughout he world as a way to foster greater relationships between nations.

New Hampshire National Guard, El Salvador exchange emergency management best practices
May 24, 2012
As part of the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program, a group of New Hampshire National Guard members and N.H. civil emergency response leaders greet members of the Comandos del Salvamento Green Cross outside the Republica de El Salvador en la American Central, Ministerio de Governacion building, as they tour various emergency response centers in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 10, 2012.