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South Dakota National Guard waste-recycle program to help Afghans, environment
February 1, 2011
Army Sgt. 1st Class Erich Stemmerding, 534th Survey and Design Team, 15th Engineer Battalion, places “fuel donuts” on a drying rack Jan. 29, 2011, at Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan. Once dry, the fuel donuts will burn for about an hour and provide an alternative heat source for Afghan families.
Alaska Air National Guard saving lives
January 31, 2011
A pararescuemen from the Alaska Air National Guard’s 212th Rescue Squadron conducts fast rope insertion training while deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The Alaska Air National Guard's busy search-and-rescue pace continues in 2011.
Grass: Guard, USNORTHCOM have critical partnership
January 24, 2011
Army Lt. Gen. Frank Grass, deputy commander of USNORTHCOM and vice commander of U.S. Element NORAD, speaks during the 2011 National Guard Bureau Domestic Operations Workshop at the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., Jan. 20, 2011. Grass spoke about the important partnership the Guard and NORTHCOM have in the homeland.
Iowa National Guard ADT small poultry project a sustainable success
January 24, 2011
Army Sgt. Heather Eberle, combat medic with the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team, makes friends with Afghan children inside their home compound in Karula, a small town outside of Asadabad, the capital of Afghanistan's Kunar Province during a visit Jan. 13, 2011.
Mississippi National Guard unit’s first 100 days: a story of sustainment
January 24, 2011
Oregon Guardmember finds changed Iraq
January 21, 2011
Oregon Army National Guard Sgt. Alan Arnson, a member of the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), works on radio equipment at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Arnson stepped into the No. 2 slot in the battalion’s communications section just before he deployed to Iraq.
Oregon Guard warrant officer keeps Soldiers, trucks on the road
January 12, 2011
Chief Warrant Officer 2 John Bales (right), the maintenance officer for the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry, 3rd Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), and a Joseph, Ore., native, talks with two of his mechanics at the maintenance bay for the 3-116th Cav. Reg. in December, 2010. Bales manages the maintenance for the battalion while it is stationed at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.
Guard mobile redistribution team supports Iraq drawdown
January 10, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Cordell Frazier, a team leader with the 319th Transportation Company, 110th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 224th Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), and Army Spc. Josh Goodman, a Mobile Redistribution Team yard worker with the 319th Trans. Co., sort and inventory bulk wires Dec. 13, 2010 at the MRT fixed site yard on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq.
Iowa Guard ADT backs veterinary programs for Kuchis
January 10, 2011
Kuchi tribesman and Afghan veterinary workers herd sheep toward the chutes where the animals were de-wormed and vaccinated as part of a Veterinary Outreach Sustainment Program for the nomadic Kuchi tribesman camped in the Noor Gal District of Afghanistan's Kunar province Jan. 8. The VOSPs are underwritten by the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team and implemented by the Kunar provincial veterinarian.
National Guard veterinarians learn Afghan capabilities
January 6, 2011
Army Maj. Loren Adams, a New Liberty, Iowa, resident and a veterinarian with the Iowa National Guard Agribusiness Development Team, examines an anthrax slide through a microscope in the Central Veterinary Research and Diagnostics Lab in Kabul City here during a tour Dec. 28. The tour gave a group of Army vets a better understanding of the lab’s capabilities which they will pass on to the Afghan veterinarians they work with, in their respective provinces.