Home : News : State Partnership Program
Results:
Category: News Features

Arizona, Kazakh State Partnership renewed for five more years
July 31, 2017
Command Sgt. Major Fidel Zamora, the senior enlisted advisor for the Arizona Army National Guard and Command Sgt. Major Saul Garcia, the command sergeant major for the 98th Aviation Troop Command, hold the Arizona state flag with delegates from Kazakhstan during a visit to exchange aviation maintenance practices and non-commissioned officer development July 25, 2017. The visit came within weeks of the U.S. government’s formal renewal of its partnership with Kazakhstan, extending the 24-year-old legacy of cooperation for five more years.

Iowa Soldiers train side-by-side with Kosovo colleagues; building rapport and forging memories
July 28, 2017
Maj. Tonja Winekauf, a nurse practitioner, attends to a patient during a joint training exercise July 24, 2017, at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa. Medics from the Iowa Air and Army National Guard as well as Kosovo and the United Kingdom gathered for the two-week exercise.

Airmen, Soldiers train in Patriot North 2017 Exercise at Fort McCoy, Wis.
July 26, 2017
Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 376th Aviation Regiment, 63rd Theater Aviation Brigade of the Nebraska Army National Guard move cargo with a Chinook helicopter July 21, 2017, during operations during the Patriot North 2017 Exercise at the Young Air Assault Trip at Fort McCoy, Wis. Patriot North is a training exercise designed for civilian emergency management and responders to work with military entities in the same manner that they would during disasters.

North Carolina Soldier bridges the language gap in Romania
July 25, 2017
Spc. Gizela Lupescu of the North Carolina National Guard served as battalion translator in her native country, Romania.

Scoutmaster planned military support for the 2017 Scout Jamboree
July 24, 2017
Lt. Col. Larry Boggs, plans and integrations officer for the West Virginia National Guard, monitors operations for the 2017 National Jamboree July 21, 2017, at the Glen Jean Armory in Glen Jean, W. Va. Boggs, who is also a scoutmaster, was a prime planner for the event which draws 30,000 Scouts.

South Carolina Chaplain Corps ready to assist Soldiers and their families
July 24, 2017
Chaplain (Maj.) Brandon Candee, 1-151st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion chaplain, conducted chapel services July 9, 2017, during annual training at Fort Stewart, Georgia. The sermon focused on the fear of change and how to overcome those fears in preparation for deployment for Soldiers with the 1-151st ARB.

Firefighter on TDY helps at emergency response, earns 'Captain America' nickname
July 19, 2017
Maj. Ryan Walsh, District of Columbia National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters – Air, Military Personnel Management Officer,  poses for a photo with members of the Camp J.T. Robinson Fire Department, Camp Robinson, Arkansas, April 26, 2017.

South Carolina National Guard supports Colombia during international air show
July 18, 2017
Guests watch the aerial demonstrations at José María Córdova International Airport during Feria Aeronautica Internacional—Colombia 2017 in Rionegro, Colombia, July 15, 2017. The United States Air Force is participating in the four-day air show with two South Carolina Air National Guard F-16s as static displays, plus many other displays.

Soldier saluting funeral procession in the rain identified as Tennessee Guard colonel
July 14, 2017
Tennessee National Guard Col. Jack Usrey pulled his vehicle over and saluted a passing funeral procession in this photo that went viral on the internet. He was subsequently identified and spoke by phone to the woman who snapped his photo on July 6, 2017.

Kentucky celebrates two-year state partnership with Djibouti
July 13, 2017
Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Adams III and State Command Sgt. Maj. David Munden visit with Col. Mohamed Ali Obsieh, the Director General de l’Academie Militare InterArmees for the Djiboutian military in support of the State Partnership Program between the Kentucky National Guard and the nation of Djibouti at Arta-Amia, Djibouti, June 24, 2017.