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West Virginia shares ideas on rural health in Peru
May 14, 2010
Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Steve Nathanson (center) listens as his translator asks a question of an elderly resident of a rural village near Batan Grande in the Lambayeque District of Peru.

Alaska Guardsmen arrive in Vietnam for Pacific Angel
May 13, 2010
Cargo is off-loaded from a C-130 Hercules from the Alaska Air National Guard's 144th Airlift Squadron shortly after they arrived at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 8, 2010. Thirty-nine military personnel from bases around the Pacific and continental U.S. are participating in Operation Pacific Angel 10-2 in the Can Tho area May 10-17. Pacific Angel is a humanitarian and civic assistance program conducted in the Pacific area of responsibility to support U.S. Pacific Command's capacity-building efforts. This is the second time the operation has been held in Vietnam.

Soldiers train on Bambi bucket to fight fires in Kosovo
May 10, 2010
A flight crew from MNBG E aviation works together to safely fill a Bambi bucket during firefighting training recently held in  Kosovo.

Kentucky ADT mobilizes for Afghanistan
May 10, 2010

Maine Guard conducts its first ever air assault in Afghanistan
May 10, 2010
Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment, of the Maine National Guard, prepare to board UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, after successful completion of their first combat air assault mission in Lalakeh village, Paktya Province, Afghanistan, May 1. During the mission, a weapons cache was found and destroyed, and multiple arms dealers and insurgent militants were captured.

New York MPs teach Iraqis emergency response techniques
May 10, 2010
Soldiers of the New York National Guard's 206th Military Police Company monitor the Iraqi Emergency Response Battalion search and seizure procedures during a training course held at the Basra Operations Center in Basra, Iraq March 15, 2010.

Colorado Guard joins Slovenia to train Afghan army
May 10, 2010

Connections with Hooligans continue after Ghana mission ends
May 7, 2010
Airmen with the North Dakota National Guard's 119th Wing Civil Engineer Squadron work on gutting a building in Accra, Ghana. The Airmen are on a
 two-week humanitarian mission as part of the Department of Defense-sponsored State Partnership Program.

Alabama Guard deploys first contracting team
May 6, 2010
(From left to right) Staff Sgt. Daniel Martin, Grant, Ala., Capt. Todd Floyd, Cullman, Ala., Capt. Jeffery Campbell, Madison, Ala., and Staff Sgt. Lesly "Rich" Richardson, Toney, Ala., stand ready to deploy as the Alabama Army National Guard's first contingency contracting team (CCT). The four men make up the 1960th CCT. It is the second CTT from the Army National Guard to deploy to Afghanistan.

Virginia's 'Bedford Boys' carry history into deployment
May 5, 2010
Dusty skies set in as a lone Virginia National Guard Soldier from 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, headquartered in Lynchburg, Va., looks down across a valley from the Ziggurat of Ur near the Tallil Airbase in Iraq. The 1/116th is currently deployed with the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.