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Pennsylvania National Guard marks 100th anniversary of Mexican border mobilization
July 26, 2016
Pennsylvania’s 16th Regiment conducting rifle training along the Mexican border during the 1916 crisis.
New Mexico military police give a makeover to Costa Rican school site
July 25, 2016
New Mexico National Guard Spc. Justin Langlitz and Spc. Xavier Romero participate in area beautification at the site of a future school for the community of Cuajiniquil July 20, 2016. Langlitz and Romero are members of 1st Platoon, 919th Military Police Company, New Mexico National Guard which were guests at the Escuela Nacional de Policía in nearby Murciélago for their Annual Training. The project was part of their community improvement day.
New York Guard Soldier to represent United States in Taekwondo competition
July 21, 2016
Spc. Nashayla Harper, a member of the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Combat Aviation Brigade, right, poses with her aunt and coach Mechelle Smith after winning the welter-weight class for 18 to 32-year old females at the 2016 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Taekwondo National Championships held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from July 4 to 9.
There’s no place like home
July 20, 2016
Senior Master Sgt. Helen Crouch, 174th Medical Group medical technician, gives medical history paperwork to a patient at the Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training mission July 20, 2016, Norwich, N.Y. Before the patients are taken to dental, medical, or optometry, they are initially in-processed by medical technicians, gathering their height, weight, history, and vitals information.
'Beeline March' to Cambridge: National Guard roots of Army's founding
July 15, 2016
Dressed in typical attire of back-country riflemen, Revolutionary War living historians in Virginia prepare for a reenactment. The round hats and hunting shirts are the same as those described in the accounts of the first riflemen within companies such as the Berkeley County Rifles who made the “Beeline to Boston.”
Minnesota Guard member experiences 'new things' as he helps renovate a schoolhouse
July 14, 2016
Spc. Jesse Mendiola takes a break during a reconstruction and remodel at the primary school June 10, 2016, in Karlovac, Croatia. Soldiers of the Minnesota Army National Guard 851st Vertical Engineer Company, Airmen from the Minnesota Air National Guard 148th and 133rd Civil Engineer Squadron along with the Croatian Army Engineering Horizontal Construction Company work together for repairs and to rebuild parts of a primary school in Karlovac. The project is a Humanitarian Civic Assistance project made possible by the U.S. European Command in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia.
Becoming a father while deployed
July 13, 2016
Ave, daughter of Staff Sgt. Kevin Reed, an information technology specialist who’s currently deployed to the Middle East with the 17th Sustainment Brigade, 1st Theater Support Command, was born Feb. 17, 2016. Thanks to modern technology, Reed can video chat with his wife and daughter on a daily basis.
Airman continues family’s Air Force legacy
July 12, 2016
Air Force Staff Sgt. Austin Phillips, the 22nd Maintenance Squadron wheel and tire section chief, right, poses with his grandfather, retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Raymond Hopper, in front of a KC-135 Stratotanker at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., June 25, 2016. Phillips is assigned to the KC-135, one of the same airframes his grandfather worked on nearly 60 years before.
Chief Master Sgt. Bill Dixon says goodbye to Alaska Air Guard after 41 years
July 8, 2016
Retired U.S. Air National Guard Chief Master Sgt. Bill Dixon says his final farewells to his friends and co-workers at the interior-Alaska Air Guard wing where he finished 41 years of military service, here at Eielson AFB, Alaska, June 29, 2016. The ceremony was attended by more than 200 people and was held in the maintenance bay, which was Dixon’s home-away-from-home for almost 20 years.
Governor honors Washington Youth Academy director for leadership of National Guard-related program
July 7, 2016
Gov. Jay Inslee honored Washington Youth Academy Director Larry Pierce as well as 21 other state agency managers who have demonstrated outstanding leadership. The 2016 Governor’s Award for Leadership in Management was presented at an awards luncheon June 30, 2016, at the Executive Residence.