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Puerto Rico National Guard brings special skills to Fuerzas Comando 2011
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Eric Sierra, a Puerto Rican National Guard Soldier assigned to the 191st Readiness Support Company, pumps fuel into a gas can for vehicles in support of the Fuerzas Comando 2011 competition June 13, 2011. Fuerzas Comando, established in 2004, is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored special operations skills competition and senior leader seminar which is conducted annually in Central and South America and the Caribbean and is scheduled to run June 15-23.

Guard-led task force wins hearts 'one patient at a time'
June 20, 2011

Massachusetts, Louisiana Guard work together, provide safe water in Haiti
June 15, 2011
Army Sgt. 1st Class Stanley Martin, senior enlisted leader of the 125th Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit, and Army 2nd Lt. Danielle Golden, the 125th’s mission commander in Haiti, test the well water for impurities at a school in Gonaives, Haiti, May 16, 2011. Task Force Bon Voizen, New Horizons Haiti 2011, is a U.S. Southern Command sponsored, U.S. Army South conducted, joint foreign military interaction/humanitarian exercise under the command of the Louisiana National Guard. Task Force Bon Voizen is deploying U.S. military engineers and medical professionals to Haiti for training and to provide humanitarian services.

Montana National Guard members provide security on roads, under different sky
June 15, 2011
Army Sgt. Brandon Paye, a truck commander for Company B, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, talks to his driver during a convoy escort and security mission bringing his set back from Victory Base Complex to Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, June 5, 2011.

Army National Guard’s top enlisted leader acknowledges Soldiers’ sacrifices
June 15, 2011
Army Command Sgt. Maj. Richard Burch, the command sergeant major of the Army National Guard, shakes the hand of Army Spc. Vernon Moore, a military policeman and gunner from with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment, Task Force Redhorse, a part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, at the entry control point on Joint Combat Outpost Pul-E-Sayad, Afghanistan May 27, 2011. Burch visited the JCOP during a battlefield rotation he conducted with Army Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Chandler, the command sergeant major of the Army.

Iowa Guard truck drivers deliver under fire
June 14, 2011
Army Sgt. Jared Henkle and Army Spc. Tyler Parker-Bellinger, both truck
drivers with Company E, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, Task Force
Ironman, a part of the Iowa National Guard's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th
Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls, listen to a mission brief June 6,
2011, on Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, shortly before going
on a convoy. The pair recently found themselves resupplying soldiers from the
133rd who were under heavy fire in Nuristan province.

COMMENTARY: Georgia Guard works with Georgia nation
June 13, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. William Nesbitt

Iowa Guard cooks sustain troops' morale
June 13, 2011
Iowa Army National Guard Sgt. Antonia Santiago IV, one of two American food
service noncommissioned officers with Company F, 334th Brigade Support
Battalion, supports Company B, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 2nd
Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls at Combat
Outpost Dand Patan, Afghanistan, with three on meals a day working out of a
small, crowded kitchen the size of a shipping container on May 28, 2011.

Missouri Guard Airmen tell of increased airlift over Afghanistan
June 13, 2011
Missouri Air National Guard members deployed as part of the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Bagram Air Base, transport medical patients during aeromedical evacuation operations in Afghanistan.

Wyoming Guard members, ANSF train together
June 13, 2011
Army Sgt. Andy Monnin, a flight medic with Company C, 5th Battalion, 159th
Aviation Regiment, Wyoming Army National Guard, hooks two soldiers to a UH-60
Black Hawk hoist at Combat Outpost Wilderness, Afghanistan, on June 3, 2011.
The exercise was training to reinforce the skills of the medics assigned to
Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd
Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke, and to train
Afghan National Security Forces in evacuation procedures.