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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.
Indiana Guardsmen meet with ANA to discuss NCO development
April 21, 2010
Army Command Sgt. Maj. Jim Brown, the command sergeant major for the Indiana National Guard's Regional Core Training Team 2, speaks with Afghan National Army Sgt. Maj. Zar M. Sherzad, sergeant major for the ANA's 203rd Thunder Corps, 3rd Brigade, at Forward Operating Base Vulcan, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, April 14, 2010. Brown and Sherzad both spoke at a conference on the development of the ANA's non-commissioned officer program on FOB Vulcan earlier in the day.
Ghana continues partnership with tour of North Dakota
April 21, 2010
Col. Rick Gibney points out features of an MQ-1 ground control station simulator to Lt. Gen. Peter Blay, the chief of Defense Staff for the Ghana Armed Forces, in Fargo, N.D., April 16, 2010. Officials from the Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF) visited North Dakota to learn about the capabilities of the North Dakota National Guard, and to continue building the bilateral relationship that they have through the State Partnership Program. The North Dakota Air Guard flies the MQ-1 remotely piloted aircraft in Fargo, and uses the simulator to train pilots and sensor operators at the unit.
Iowa Air Guardsman takes care of Airmen as deployed first sergeant
April 20, 2010
Senior Master Sgt. Mark Miller, first sergeant for the 380th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron, participates in a retreat ceremony at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on April 2, 2010. Miller is deployed from the 133rd Test Squadron at Fort Dodge, Iowa, which is a geographically-separated unit of the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa.
Guardsmen conducts nonlethal weapons training in Iraq
April 20, 2010
Staff Sgt. Jonathan McDonald (far left), nonlethal weapons instructor for the 49th Military Police Brigade, eyes Sgt. Robert Black of the 217th Military Police Company load a shotgun with nonlethal rounds during range training at Camp Liberty.