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Competition and camaraderie: A Best Warrior partnership
March 10, 2020
Army Pfc. Maximilliano Estrada of the 71st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade performs V-ups during the obstacle course portion of the Texas Military Department’s 2020 Best Warrior Competition March 5, 2020, at Camp Swift near Bastrop, Texas. Estrada, who began bleeding halfway through the event, refused to stop and completed the course.
Father, three children serve in military
March 9, 2020
Senior Airman Everett Brown, traffic management specialist, 124th Logistics Readiness Squadron; Cpl. Kassandra Brown, ammunitions specialist, G Company, 145th Brigade Support Battalion; Command Chief Master Sgt. Sid Brown, State Command Chief, Idaho Air National Guard; and Seaman Wesley Brown, hospital corpsman, Wayne Caron Clinic, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, pose for a family photo.
Florida Guard partners with Guyana to boost medical readiness
March 9, 2020
Sgt. Arielle Tango, a Florida Army Guard medic with the 256th Medical Company Area Support (MCAS), shares the proper technique to transport a casualty with members of Guyana’s defense force and coast guard. Tango was part of a Florida Army Guard team that traveled to Guyana in December as part of Florida’s State Partnership Program to help strengthen military medical readiness with the country.
R-and-D experts test ideas in frigid Arctic Eagle 2020 exercise
March 6, 2020
Research and development experts observe and evaluate the performance of search and extraction training at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, Feb. 23-25, 2020, in a statewide exercise to evaluate cold weather capabilities.
Kosovo delegates visit Iowa National Guard as part of SPP program
March 5, 2020
Nine mayors and other delegates from Kosovo in front of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Statotanker at the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 26, 2020. The group came to Iowa to formalize a sister-city agreement between the city of Gjilian and Sioux City as an outgrowth of the National Guard State Partnership Program.
MD Guard leaders visit Estonia during Independence Day
March 4, 2020
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen, the adjutant general of Maryland, and U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Perlisa D. Wilson, Maryland National Guard senior enlisted leader, wait for the start of the Estonian Independence Day military parade Feb. 24, 2020, at Vabaduse Square, Tallinn, Estonia. The celebration marked the 102nd anniversary of Estonia's declaration of independence.
42nd ID Soldier is first Guard member chosen for DARPA fellowship
March 3, 2020
New York Army National Guard Capt. Steven Quinones, from Tappan, N.Y., was the first National Guard member chosen for a fellowship with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., from September to December 2019. Quinones, a signal officer assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division, worked alongside service members from across the military as well as Department of Defense civilians to develop new technologies.
FL woman's great-grandson enlists where she signed up in 1942
March 1, 2020
Laurel Saunders, former U.S. Women's Army Corps member, recalls her World War II service before her great-grandson's enlistment at Camp Blanding, Florida, Feb. 19, 2020. She enlisted at the same installation in 1942.
Alaska Guard Airman helps keep C-17 aircrew safe
February 27, 2020
Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Joseph Rotar is a C-17 Globemaster III aircrew flight equipment technician with 176th Operations Support Squadron supporting 144th Airlift Squadron. Rotar is a former active Army paratrooper.
Thailand, US strengthen partnership with humanitarian civic action
February 26, 2020
National Guard Soldiers from the 176th Engineering Co., Snohomish, Wash., break up concrete alongside Thai nationals as part of Exercise Cobra Gold in Phitsanulok, Thailand, Feb. 24, 2020. The exercise emphasizes coordination on civic action, developing interoperability and unity of action in crisis contingencies.