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Tennessee Hosts Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition
July 25, 2022
Competitors participate in  warrior tasks during the 2022 National Guard Bureau Region 2 Best Warrior Competition May 17-20, 2022, at Camp Dawson, Kingwood, West Virginia. Regional winners from across the nation advanced to the national competition in Tennessee.

New York National Guard Honors Nelson Mandela Day with SPP Partner
July 19, 2022
Lt. Col. Joseph Conley and Staff. Sgt. David Bailey stand with students from the Khanyiselisizwe High School for Nelson Mandela International Day July 18, 2022. The U.S. Soldiers are there for Shared Accord, a biannual training event to enhance operational skills and the partnership between the United States and South Africa.

New York Army Guard Troops to Help Train Ukrainian Soldiers
July 18, 2022
New York Army National Guard Soldiers of the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, who are deploying to Germany as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, stand at attention during a farewell ceremony at the Thompson Road Armory in Syracuse, New York, July 15, 2022. The New York Soldiers will relieve Florida Army National Guard Soldiers who are currently conducting the training mission.

National Guard SEA Visits Colorado Guard Space, Missile Defense Units
July 1, 2022
Senior Enlisted Advisor Tony Whitehead, center right, the SEA to the chief of the National Guard Bureau, stands with Command Chief Master Sgt. Lisa Perry, the Colorado National Guard’s command senior enlisted leader, and members of the Colorado Guard’s 138th Space Control Squadron on Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, June 28, 2022. Whitehead visited Colorado Guard space and missile defense units in Colorado Springs to see how National Guard members are contributing to these expanding domains.

NY National Guard Wraps up Federally Funded COVID-19 Mission
July 1, 2022
New York Army National Guard Pvt. Joshua Morales, a member of the 133rd Combat Support Company, directs a COVID-19 vaccination registrant to The State University of New York, Stony Brook, vaccination site March 16th, 2021.

New York National Guard Honors Korean War MIA
May 27, 2022
New York Army National Guard Soldiers carry the remains of Korean War MIA Cpl. Robert Charles Agard Jr. during his funeral ceremony honors May 27, 2022, at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Elmira, N.Y. Agard was returned home after more than 70 years listed as missing in action following his death in North Korea.

New York Guard Partner South Africa Signs West Point Pact
May 23, 2022
New York Army National Guard Maj. Anthony McLean, the executive officer of the 369th Sustainment Brigade, conducts a tour of the brigade’s historic Harlem Armory for a delegation of South African officers and academics April 21, 2022. The South Africans met with officials at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to sign an agreement setting up an exchange program with South Africa’s officer education program.

WMD civil support teams train on land, sea, in air
May 23, 2022
Florida Army National Guard, Lt. Col. Mark Bianchi, 48th Civil Support Team commander, briefs local, state and federal authorities and other CST teams from New York, Illinois, Georgia, North and South Carolina at the C.W. Bill Young Armed Forces Reserve Center during Operation Night Hammer May 22, 2022.

New York National Guard supports nursing home
April 11, 2022
New York Air National Guard Senior Airman Skyler Suazo, a medical technician assigned to the 174th Attack Wing, Hancock Field Air National Guard, talks with a resident at Loretto Health and Rehab in Syracuse, New York. National Guard medics have been deployed in nursing homes to help alleviate staff shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New York Guard leads world's largest St. Patrick's Day parade
March 18, 2022
The best junior enlisted Soldier and best non-commissioned officer of the year, of the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, lead the unit's mascots, two Irish Wolfhounds named Billy and Autumn, during the St. Patrick's Day Parade, Manhattan, New York, March 17, 2022.

New York National Guard COVID mission tops 2 years
March 10, 2022
Air Force Lt. Col. John Reynolds, a member of the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift Wing, vaccinates Tom Pescatore May 20, 2021 at  the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Pescatore's injection was the 600,000 shot administered at the massive vaccination site established and staffed by the New York National Guard.

NY Guard’s 27th Infantry Brigade prepares for deployments
March 3, 2022
U.S. Army Capt. Nicholas Charnley, Maj. Dermot Gavin, and Maj. Jared Kausner, assigned to the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, New York Army National Guard, discuss the theoretical application of multidomain operations in a modern-day version of the Battle of Saipan in World War II during a leaders workshop in Syracuse, New York, Feb. 26, 2022. The workshop served to prepare the 27th IBCT's senior leaders for upcoming deployments and development of their future forces.

New York National Guard Soldiers, Airmen train as EMTs
January 25, 2022
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth Brown, 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard, demonstrates the proper way to check a patient during emergency medical technician training at the Farmingdale Armed Forces Reserve Center in Farmingdale, New York, Jan. 17, 2022.

NY National Guard troops continue to aid nursing homes
December 28, 2021
Pvt. Nastasia Morgan, a combat medic assigned to the 107th Military Police Company, 369th Sustainment Brigade, sits with a resident at Loretto Health and Rehab in Syracuse, NY Dec. 20.

NYNG honors more than 10,000 veterans with military funerals
December 23, 2021
New York Army National Guard Honor Guard Soldiers carry the casket of Cpl. Walter Smead, a Soldier killed during the Korean War, during his funeral at Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville, New York, Sept. 20, 2021.  Smead was declared missing in action during the Korean War.

NYNG Soldier, Airman graduate Brazil Jungle Warfare School
December 21, 2021
Tech. Sgt. Paul Cange, far left, and Cpl. Dakoatah Miller, far right, join the other American graduates of the Brazilian Jungle Operations International Course in Manaus, Brazil, Nov. 11, 2021. Brazil’s Jungle Warfare Center conducts a special shortened course for foreign students each fall.

New York National Guard officer honored for COVID response
December 16, 2021
New York Army National Guard Col. Michael Bice speaks to Cassie Huang, 28, of New York after she received the 500,000th COVID-19 vaccination administered at the New York state vaccination site at the Jacob Javits Convention Center April 26, 2021. Bice, who directed the 620 National Guard troops and 400 civilians who worked at the site, has been recognized for his efforts by Crain’s New York Business and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield.

New York, South African leaders reinvigorate partnership
December 14, 2021
New York National Guard Maj. Gen. Michel Natali, the assistant adjutant general, presents a plaque to Brig. Gen. Richard Maponyane, the South Africa defense attaché, in New York Dec. 9, 2021, during a meeting to discuss State Partnership Program initiatives. The New York Army National Guard and South Africa have been partners in the program since 2003.

NY National Guard sends 120 troops to bolster long-term care
December 8, 2021
New York Army National Guard Sgt. William Liu, a member of the 24th Civil Support Team, works at the New York State COVID-19 Vaccination Site at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens Aug. 24, 2021. The New York National Guard has conducted a number of missions during New York's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now sending medical personnel into nursing homes to help alleviate staffing shortages.

NY Air Guard supports Danish forces in Greenland training
December 2, 2021
Airmen assigned to the 109th airlift Wing pose for a photo on top of an LC-130 “ski bird” while preparing for an airdrop mission in support of the Danish military during Operation Arctic Light Nov. 4, in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.