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F-16 training bolsters U.S., Pakistan relations
May 5, 2010
Pakistan Air Force Squadron Leader Azman Khalil, left, goes over flight
information with Capt. Andy Wittke, an instructor pilot with the Arizona Air
National Guard's 162nd Fighter Wing, before a training mission April 27, 2010. Khalil and seven other Pakistani pilots graduated from F-16C/D upgrade training at Tucson International Airport on May 4, 2010.

Happy Hooligans complete mission in Ghana
May 4, 2010

After IED hit, 'only thing we couldn't fix was the air conditioning'
April 30, 2010
Members of the 1/172nd Cavalry assigned to the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) of the Vermont National Guard replace a damaged front axle on a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle at Forward Operating Base Vulcan, April 5, 2010. The team worked together and got the MRAP back in service after it was sidelined due to an Improvised Explosive Device.

How Sweet It Is
April 30, 2010
Local women receive training about how to manage bee hives for the Kapisa Honeybee Project that the Kentucky National Guard's Agricultural Development Team, attached to the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Vermont National Guard, is facilitating, April 6, 2010. The project involves supplying women in Kapisa with beehives and training on how to manage the hives so that they can harvest and sell the honey.

North Dakota Guardsmen take over Camp Nothing Hill
April 29, 2010
North Dakota National Guard members from Multinational Battle Group East and the Turkish contingent salute the changing of flags during a ceremony April 26, 2010.

Tennessee MPs prepare to train Iraqi police
April 29, 2010

North Dakota Airmen complete first humanitarian project in Ghana
April 28, 2010
Airmen with the North Dakota National Guard's 119th Wing Civil Engineer Squadron paint the trim on a building on Burma Camp near Accra, Ghana. The building will serve as classrooms to train members of the Ghanaian Armed Forces. The two-week mission for the North Dakota Airmen is providing valuable training on contingency skills while helping Ghana — North Dakota's pair in the State Partnership Program.

Hoax phone calls no laughing matter to Vermont Guard
April 28, 2010
U.S. and Afghan soldiers watch as the CH-47 Chinook helicopter that brought them to the village of Mengal Kheyl in the Zormat district of Afghanistan's Paktya province, lands after completing an air assault mission, April 22, 2010. The soldiers, who captured the district's largest weapons cache in three years are assigned to Company C, 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment, Vermont National Guard.

South Dakota combat engineers improve operations in Afghanistan
April 22, 2010
Spc. Benjamin Peterson with the maintenance platoon, 21tth Engineer Company, South Dakota Army National Guard, works to recover a set of mine rollers damaged by an improvised explosive device (IED) during a route clearance mission here April 5.

Florida Guard upholds federal readiness in Qatar
April 21, 2010
U.S. Army Capt. Dewitt Revels, from Jacksonville, Fla., meets with a Qatari soldier at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, April 19. The 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, the largest Army National Guard unit in Florida, reported for duty at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in early March. Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 153rd Cavalry Regiment, 53rd IBCT soldiers quickly departed the following week to take over force protection from contracting firms at Camp As Sayliyah. "Everyone is going to be enriched by this experience," said Dewitt, Bravo Troop commander.