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South Carolina Guard member gets satisfaction serving others
March 28, 2017
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Natalie Miller, Detachment 1, Company B, 2-238th General Support Aviation Battalion, leaves for a week-long training mission focused on high-altitude flight operations aboard a CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift cargo helicopter, Greenville, S.C., Feb. 24, 2017.

Washington National Guard forging partnerships in kitchens and elsewhere
March 24, 2017
Master Sgt. Darrell DeGroff  speaks to a chef from Red Wind Casino in Lacey,
which was talking to soldiers about job opportunities.

Texas Airmen help Texas Senate honor Doolittle Raiders
March 23, 2017
Maj. Gen. John F. Nichols, left, the adjutant general of Texas, sits with retired Lt. Col. Dick Cole prior to a Texas Senate event honoring the Doolittle Raiders of World War II, in Austin, Texas, March 6, 2017. Cole, 101, is the last surviving member of the Doolittle Raid.

Ohio family's service roots run deep in Army and Air National Guard
March 17, 2017
Members of the Clemens family, with more than 120 years of military service, stand in front of the family home in Port Clinton, Ohio, after three of them returned from overseas deployments. Pictured are retired Senior Master Sgt. Ken Clemens (clockwise from front row, left), Col. Barb Herrington-Clemens, Capt. Chelsea Migura, Staff Sgt. Rich Clemens, Staff Sgt. Drew Clemens and Sgt. 1st Class Zach Migura.

Single dad in Texas driven to try Outstanding Warrior competition
March 15, 2017
Staff Sgt. Juan Nunez a security forces specialist with the 136th Security Forces Squadron, Texas Air National Guard, and his son Tristan pose for a photo at the 136th Airlift Wing’s Annual Children’s Christmas party Nov. 20, 2016 at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas. (

Two chief warrant officers in Washington are brothers in arms
March 9, 2017
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Justin Larson, left, and Chief Warrant Officer 5 Noel Larson pose for a photo in the cockpit of a Black Hawk helicopter they use for their aviation duties Feb. 12, 2017. The two brothers were promoted on the same day at the Aviation Readiness Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Deployments make New York Guard doctor better hometown physician
March 9, 2017
Army Lt. Col. William Lecates, who serves as a doctor in the New York Army National Guard and a kidney specialist in private practice, said that his service in the Army Guard has given him a greater breadth of medical knowledge benefiting both his civilian and military patients.

Texas Guard members join SPP partners in Best Warrior Competition
March 8, 2017
Texas National Guard Soldiers and Airmen receive a safety brief along with with Czech and Chilean service members at the M4 qualification event as part of the fifth annual Texas Military Department Best Warrior Competition, at Camp Swift near Bastrop, Texas, March 3, 2017. This year's Best Warrior Competition was the second time Chilean soldiers participated and the first time for soldiers from the Czech Republic as part of Texas Military Department's initiative to develop relations with foreign partners.

Ohio National Guard Soldier saves wandering toddler
March 6, 2017
Sgt. First Class Chris Meinhardt, an 18-year veteran of the Ohio Army National Guard, shows where he saw a young boy walking alongside Black Road in Butler County while on his way to work the morning of October 20, 2016. Meinhardt, the senior human resources sergeant for Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, stopped to help the child who had walked out of his grandmother’s house and wandered down the road.

Long commute doesn't keep this New York Army National Guard Soldier away from his unit
March 2, 2017
New York Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Mason, a member of the New York Army National Guard Medical Command, drives to drills in New York from North Carolina. Now Mason, age 55, is competing in the New York Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition.