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42nd Infantry Division marks 103 years of service
August 13, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division conduct a casing of the Colors Ceremony on Fort Drum, Texas, Feb. 29, 2020. The ceremony signals the 42nd's readiness to deploy in support of the United States Army Central Command.
NY National Guard assists in Isaias storm response
August 12, 2020
New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen clear downed trees near the intersection of the Queens Midtown Expressway and 71st Street in Maspeth Aug. 8, 2020. New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen responded in the Queens area and Putnam County after Hurricane Isaias moved through the region Aug. 5, 2020.
NY National Guard distributes over 52 million meals in New York City
August 6, 2020
Sgt. Thalia Santos from Yonkers, N.Y., left, and Spc. Kirt Joseph from Brentwood, N.Y., members of the New York Army National Guard, load boxed, packaged food, into a vehicle at a food distribution site in the Bronx, New York Aug. 5, 2020.
NY National Guard trains to be 'eye in sky' for 27th Brigade
August 6, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to Delta Company, 152nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, launch a RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle at Fort Drum, New York, July 28, 2020. Equipped with advanced sensors, the Shadow is used to relay communications, conduct surveillance and target acquisition.
NYNG aviation Soldiers hone land navigation skills
August 4, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 142nd Aviation Regiment, find their way during land navigation training as part of their annual training at the Guilderland Range in Guilderland, New York, July 29, 2020.
NY Army Guard adapts Best Warrior Competition to COVID-19
July 30, 2020
New York Army National Guard Cpl. Troy Perez, an infantryman assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, and the winner of the enlisted category in the state Best Warrior competition, performs the sprint, drag and carry portion of the Army Combat Fitness Test at Camp Smith Training Site, N.Y., July 25, 2020.
NY National Guard combat engineers practice explosive skills
July 23, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 152 Brigade Engineer Battalion conduct demolition training at Fort Drum, NY, Jul. 15.
NY aircrews take WVNG troops to new heights for jump training
July 20, 2020
Paratroopers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group, conduct military free-fall exercise out of a New York National Guard Chinook helicopter. Pilots from Detachment 1, Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 126th Regiment, supported this operation from Camp Dawson, West Virginia, July 11, 2020.
NY Guard hosts Israeli counterparts to discuss COVID response
July 17, 2020
Lt. Col. Hai Rekah of the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command, with members of the New York National Guard, observes intake procedures for motorists at the drive-thru test site at Glen Island Park in New Rochelle, N.Y., July 15, 2020. Rekah was in New York to meet with New York National Guard leaders to see parts of New York’s response to COVID-19, as Israel’s Homefront Command responds to the pandemic.
NY Guard's 27th Infantry Brigade begins summer training
July 16, 2020
New York Army National Guard Spc. Guadalupe Lopez, B Company, 1st Battalion 69th Infantry, M249 SAW gunner, practices taking out enemy targets during training at the 106th Rescue Wing, F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2020. Soldiers of the 69th Infantry conducted ground combat-focused field exercises at the 106th RQW as part of their monthly training.
NY National Guard explores Whiteface Mountain for training
July 15, 2020
Aviators assigned to the New York Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility #3, from Latham, N.Y., along with forest rangers and environmental conservation officers, scout locations for landing zones around Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid, N.Y., July 6, 2020. The pilots are looking at using the rocky outcrops of the mountain to train with UH-60 Black Hawks helicopters.
NY Army National Guard Soldier crams a career into one year
July 13, 2020
New York Army National Guard Spc. Olivia Mannetti, a member of the 466th Medical Company, Area Support, takes a break while training for deployment to the Middle East at Camp Smith Training Site near Peekskill, N.Y., June 12, 2020. In the last year Mannetti, a 22-year old medic, has joined the Army National Guard and completed training, mobilized as part of the New York National Guard's COVID-19, and is now getting ready to deploy with her unit.
NY National Guard Soldier's WWI story told in digital comic
July 2, 2020
Sgt. Henry Johnson, a New York National Guard Soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions during World War I, attacks a German Soldier in these panels from a digital graphic novel about Johnson released by the Association of the United States Army. Johnson, a railroad porter in Albany, N.Y., was a member of the New York National Guard's 369th Infantry.
Multiple services come together under dual-status command
June 22, 2020
U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to Joint Task Force New York, are thanked by medical staff during a farewell ceremony at Elmhurst Medical Center in Brooklyn June 3, 2020.
NY Guard resizes COVID-19 response for steady-state missions
June 18, 2020
U.S. Army Pfc. Kristoffshakur Larmond, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 258th Field Artillery, part of the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, distributes produce and canned goods in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., May 27, 2020. Troops have helped deliver more than 16 million meals to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deployed officer sees newborn via smartphone
June 17, 2020
New York Army National Guard Maj. Michael C. Costello, a Guilderland, N.Y., resident deployed to the Middle East with the 42nd Infantry Division, missed the birth of his new daughter Siena Jude. But he was able to see her via smartphone video chat minutes after she was born.
NY Guard aviators team with Rangers on water bucket training
June 17, 2020
New York Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crews conduct water bucket training in Riverhead, New York, June 12, 2020. The New York Army National Guard conducts helicopter firefighting when local agencies request support through the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.
Pandemic won't slow Soldier training for overseas deployment
June 17, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 466th Medical Company, Area Support, lift a simulated patient during a mass casualty exercise at pre-mobilization training at Camp Smith Training Site in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. The company is deploying to the area of Central Command this summer.
New York National Guard celebrates Army's 245th birthday
June 12, 2020
Master Sgt. Roger Townsend, an IT specialist assigned to New York National Guard Joint Force Headquarters, Brig. Gen. Michel Natali, the assistant adjutant general, Army, and Spc. Charles Fetzer, a military policeman assigned to the 104th Military Police Battalion, cut the U.S. Army birthday cake during a 245th Army birthday celebration at the Division of Military and Naval Affairs, Latham, N.Y., June 12th, 2020. The Army birthday is recognized each year with a cake cutting featuring the youngest Soldier, representing the future; the oldest Soldier representing wisdom and traditions; along with the commanding officer, though this year COVID-19 precautions were in place limiting the size of the event.
New York Guard delivers 22.7 million meals
June 11, 2020
Since responding to the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, members of the New York National Guard have distributed more than 22.7 million meals, assembled 1.7 million test kits and answered more than 270,000 calls.