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One day fighting fires, the next day a rescue at sea
July 18, 2008
Guard, DMAT combine resources to provide fire line emergency care
July 18, 2008
Wildfire mission for Alabama Guard
July 18, 2008
National Guard Crash Crew Provides Added Safety Measure to Firefighting Effort
July 18, 2008
Army Staff Sgt. Thomas (left), a 233rd Engineering Det. firefighter, receives a briefing from Staff Sgt. Esparza, 233rd ED team chief.
Minnesota signs National Guard's first family covenant
July 17, 2008
LTG H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, signs the Minnesota Military Family and Community Covenant at a ceremony at the Capitol Building in St. Paul, Minn., on June 16, 2008. Blum joined Secretary of the Army Pete Geren; Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty; Maj. Gen. Larry Shellito, the adjutant general of the Minnesota National Guard, and other military and civilian leaders and servicemembers' families for the ceremony which marked the National Guard's first official family covenant. The covenant lays out specific actions that military and civilian leaders can take to support servicemembers and their families.
MAFFS C-130 missions: "Quite a thrill ride"
July 17, 2008
National Guard, Border Patrol celebrate continuing partnership
July 16, 2008
W. Ralph Basham, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), addresses an Operation Jump Start (OJS) end-of-mission ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington on July 11, 2008, as David V. Aguilar, chief of the United States Border Patrol, and LTG H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, listen. The National Guard has provided support to CBP for more than 20 years. At its peak, up to 6,000 Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen increased security and vigilance along the nation's southern border under OJS, which began June 15, 2006, and ended July 15, 2008. The National Guard and CBP will continue to work together on engineering, counterdrug and other missions.
JTF Sentinel hub of activity for California Guard's aviation division
July 16, 2008
An Air National Guard Pave Hawk HH-60G from the 129th Rescue Wing of Moffett Federal Airfield shares air space with an Army National Guard Black Hawk UH-60 from the 1-140th Aviation Battalion from Los Alamitos, Calif. The aircraft are loading water in their buckets from Paradise Lake in Butte County, Calif. in support of Operation Lightning Strike.
Gates taps McKinley as next Guard Bureau chief
July 16, 2008
DoD Press Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen from the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
July 16, 2008
Recycling contract turns trash to treasure
July 15, 2008
76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Deputy Commander Col. Kenneth Newlin greets local leader Sheikh Saad Hasan Altememy during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for an Iraqi-run recycling center Thursday, July 11, 2008, at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. The 76th IBCT, along with many other sheikhs from the surrounding Balad area, are currently working together through the Iraqi-Based Industrial Zone program. The initiative compliments the Multi-National Forces-Iraq's mission by providing safe, secure jobs for local Iraqis and by giving them additional contracting opportunities normally reserved for larger, foreign corporations.
National Guard on track with recruitment, retention
July 15, 2008
Georgia Army National Guard Soldiers Arrive in Georgia for International Military Exercise
July 15, 2008
Georgia National Guard soldiers arrive in Tiblisi, Georgia in preparation for IMMEDIATE RESPONSE 2008, an international exercise to help build relationships with coaliton partners from several Eastern European nations.
National Guard Officer Defeats A Menacing Enemy...the Cockroach
July 15, 2008
Capt. Karen Corsetti, a Georgia Army National Guard environmental officer and trained entomologist, shows how her eco-friendly insect trap help to trap and kill cockroaches with out harming the environment and saving the Guard millions of dollars.
Alabama Guard officer candidates conquer Talladega on foot
July 14, 2008
Eldwood Kaumeheiwa (left) from Georgia and Jason Garcia (right)from Alabama head for the finish line at Talladega Super Speedway. Kaumeheiwa and Garcia are among 173 officer candidates at the Alabama Military Academy's Officer Candidate School who completed a 7 mile road march that ended by completing one lap around the Speedway. One lap at the Speedway is approximately 2.6 miles.
MAFFS C-130 drops millionth gallon of fire retardant on California wildfires
July 14, 2008
Master Sgt. Mark Withers with the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, prepares a modular airborne fire fighting system -equipped C-130 for another fire retardant drop on the California wildfires. The 302nd AEG includes eight U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft operating from McClellan Airfield, Sacramento, Calif., and eight U.S. Marine Corps medium- and heavy-lift helicopters flying from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif., providing unique capabilities and is part of a unified military support effort of U.S. Northern Command to provide assistance to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the National Interagency Fire Center, and U.S. Forest Service operations.
Face of Defense: Brothers Serve Together in Iraq
July 14, 2008
Army Sgt. Maj. Jim Snow and his younger brother, Army 1st Sgt. Joe Snow, are serving their second deployment together in Iraq.
Guard units receive more high-tech Lakota helicopters
July 14, 2008
The Louisiana National Guards two new UH-72 Lakotas touch down for the first time at Esler Field in Pineville, La.
Ohio, Serbia continue cooperation, training
July 14, 2008
A Soldier of 63rd Parachutist Battalion, Special Forces Brigade fires a 240 B squad operating weapon June 12 on a Camp Grayling, Mich. range. The Soldiers were participating in the National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program (SPP) between Ohio and the Republic of Serbia. The Serbian soldiers will train with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group for two weeks on mission planning, weapons systems and demoing among other tasks and skills. This training is the second half of the State Partnership Plan developed in fall of 2006. In September of 2007, U.S. Special Forces traveled to Serbia to familiarize with Serbian military operations.
Louisiana National Guard takes flight to fight; 10 Soldiers leave for California
July 14, 2008
Sgt. Dewayne Phelps, left and Sgt. 1st. Class Mike Gunnels (right), both of Alexandria, stand as safety during pre-flight checks July 13 at Esler Airfield in Pineville. Two Louisiana National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, 10 personnel (two crews and a maintenance team), prepare to leave from Esler Airfield in Pineville for California to support the California National Guard with fire fighting efforts.