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America Supports You: Scholarship Keeps Military Families "In the Fold"
August 5, 2008
California Guard team rescues ailing man
August 5, 2008
National Guard ready for Tropical Storm Edouard
August 4, 2008
Air Guard clears airfield operations for a Total Force horizon
August 4, 2008
Air Force 2nd Lt. Chelsea Hall-Reyes trains with the Air National Guard's 270th Air Traffic Control Squadron at Kingsley Field, Ore., as part of the Air Guard's Airfield Operations Officer Training Program. The program trains active-duty Airmen to become airfield operations officers.
Iowa National Guard quenches RAGBRAI thirsts for 14 years
August 4, 2008
Pennsylvania Guard convoys to California and back
August 4, 2008
Sgt. Noel Watson and Sgt. Dennis Palmer of the 1067th Transportation Company of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, review final details of a convoy briefing with a Northrup Grumman contractor prior to a Combat Logistics Patrol at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif. The unit, which is based in Phoenixville and Lehighton, Pa., drove 2,580 miles to Fort Irwin for their three-week annual training.
Massachusetts Militia Soldier was an Olympic pioneer
August 4, 2008
Thomas Pelham Curtis: Massachusetts militia Soldier and Olympic pioneer.
Syracuse ANG Airmen 'don't fear the Reaper'
August 1, 2008
Tech Sgt. Jason Owens talks to fighter pilots during arming of an F-16 Fighting Falcon here July 8. When the Syracuse, N.Y., Air National Guard unit returns from its current deployment to Joint Base Balad, it will become the first Air National Guard unit in the country to adopt an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial system mission. Sergeant Owens, a weapons specialist with the 332nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, is deployed from Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y.
Air Guard marks training center's 40th anniversary
August 1, 2008
From left, Lt. Gen. Craig R. McKinley, director of the Air National Guard, Col. Michael L. Waggett, commander of the Air Guard's I.G. Brown Training and Education Center (TEC) and Chief Master Sgt. Deborah Davidson, TEC enlisted education commandant, watch a pass and review of Noncommissioned Officer Academy students July 31 during the TEC's 40th anniversary celebration at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tenn.
South Dakota wraps up engineer missions in Suriname
August 1, 2008
Sgt. Steven Allen of the 155th Engineer Company of the South Dakota Army National Guard seals the old distribution window inside De Nieuwe Grond Clinic July 28 in Wanica, Suriname.
Air Guard medics cast off for Continuing Promise
August 1, 2008
U.S. Air Force Sr. Airman Alexandra Olson (left) and Staff Sgt. Daisha McCuskey, both aerospace medical services specialists attached to the 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth, Minn., administer an IV to the METI Man, a new emergency casualty simulator. The two airmen boarded the USS Kearsarge in Norfolk, Va., Friday to participate in Operation Continuing Promise.
New York agencies partner to help returning Soldiers
August 1, 2008
Maj. Scott Jessop of New York Army National Guard's 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, shares a moment with his son Ben Jessop and daughter Carrie Jessop during a Send-Off Ceremony before deploying to Afghanistan to train the Afghan National Army and Police Force. When he returns, new programs will screen him for PTSD, TBI and help them re-integrate.
Down-range Soldiers: Life as mentors for the Afghan National Police
August 1, 2008
Cpl. Wesley Burgess of the New York Army National Guard seen in the driver's seat of an up armored humvee. Burgess and his teammates are currently serving as part of Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix in Afghanistan.