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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.
Georgia Guard mentors Latvian Army in Operation Summer Shield
June 10, 2011
A Latvian soldier engages targets with a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle mounted .50 machine gun during an exercise as part of joint U.S./Latvian training for Operation Summer Shield in Adaži, Latvia, on May 24, 2011. Latvia is paired with Michigan in the National Guard State Partnership Program.
Alaska National Guard “Guardian Angels” save 107 in Afghanistan
June 10, 2011
Air Force Maj. Jesse Peterson and Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chris Uriarte conduct tactical training in the mountains of Afghanistan, April 22, 2011.