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New Jersey Airmen and fourth graders bring holidays to veterans
December 15, 2016
Master Sgt. Jamie Ludy, 177th Maintenance Squadron, gives Air Force Vietnam veteran Ed Taylor a card during the 16th Annual Holiday "Songfest" at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Vineland, N.J., Dec. 13, 2016. More than 80 fourth graders from the Seaview Elementary School in Linwood, N.J., and 18 Airmen sang holiday songs and handed out cards to the Home’s residents during the event.
Service becomes a family affair for these Ohio Air Guard members
December 15, 2016
Lt. Col. Philip M. Brown, the 179th Force Support Squadron commander, administers the oath of enlistment Dec. 2, 2016, at the 179th Airlift Wing, Mansfield, Ohio. Cooper Burton is enlisting as his father, Senior Master Sgt. Roger Burton, the fire chief at the 179th AW, is reenlisting.
New York's oldest and youngest National Guard members mark Guard birthday with cake cutting
December 14, 2016
Brig. Gen. Raymond Shields, assistant adjutant general, Army, far right, joins the oldest and newest members of the New York National Guard to cut a cake in celebration of the National Guard’s 380th birthday at New York National Guard headquarters on Dec. 13, 2016. The new and old members are, from left, Airman Kevin Gabay, of the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing;Chief Warrant Officer 5 Robert Wold, one of the New York Army National Guard’s oldest serving Soldier; and Pvt. Private Cameron Thompson, New York Army National Guard.
Utah Air National Guard medical unit conducts joint search, rescue training
December 9, 2016
Airman 1st Class Brooks Anderton, an aerospace medical technician assigned to the 151st Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) treats a simulated casualty inside a tunnel during search and recovery training on April 24, 2016, at the Davis County Unified Fire rubble pile in Layton, Utah.
Army Materiel Command integrates Guard, Reserve in sustainment mission
December 9, 2016
Staff Sgt. Danielle Milke does a walk-through inspection of an M1A2 Abrams tank with AMC's Chief Warrant Officer 5 Darren Cook and a contract employee, Sept. 19, 2016, in Romania. The tanks were used during a U.S. Army Europe multinational training exercise. Milke volunteered to be the NCOIC for Army Prepositioned Stocks-Romania, and is a maintenance NCO for the Army Sustainment Command-Army Reserve Element, Detachment 12 from Fort Bragg, N.C.
National Guard sibling Soldiers start tradition of serving
December 8, 2016
Pfc. Sam and Pvt. Jennifer Mei, both Pennsylvannia National Guard members, pose in front of a Stryker armored fighting vehicle at the Ordnance School Nov. 17, 2016. Sam graduated from the17-week course Nov. 22. Jennifer is scheduled to complete the course in March. Another sibling, Milton, 19, is also undergoing training at Fort Lee.
South Carolina National Guard preserving state history, environment
December 7, 2016
South Carolina Army National Guard hosts a team of archaeologists and conservation managers as they work at McCrady Training Center, Eastover, S.C., Feb. 2, 2016. After the historic flood of October 2015, drastic erosion exposed old transportation systems and disrupted construction timbers in a hollow core dam. James Spirek and Joe Beatty, state underwater archaeologists measure distances between logs that built the dam.
Air National Guard 'cable guys' are saving U.S. Strategic Command millions on project
December 6, 2016
A team of Air National Guard members working on a project for the U.S. Strategic Command is saving STRATCOM millions of dollars. The project at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is running about 600 miles of cable for the Strategic Command.
Air National Guard volunteers help load Trees for Troops
December 2, 2016
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Kyle Defeo helps Sally Ellms pack holiday ornaments and wishes into a Christmas Tree during the loading of donated trees November 29, 2016 in support of Trees for Troops at Ellms Tree Farm in Ballston Spa, N.Y. More than 20 Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing based in Scotia, N.Y., helped ship some 130 holiday trees with donated ornaments and holiday wishes.
Commentary: Texas Guard looks out for one of its own - a young honorary member
November 30, 2016
Washington National Guard members visit with Rowan Windham, right, an honorary member of the Texas National Guard, at Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, Washington, Oct. 28, 2016. Texas Command Senior Enlisted Leader Command Sgt. Maj. Mark Weedon asked the Washington National Guard to visit Rowan on behalf of Texas.