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New York Guard leads NYC's Saint Patrick's Day Parade
March 18, 2009
This year's Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York City was led up Fifth Avenue by the historic 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry, the famed Irish combat unit known throughout the Army and the nation as the "Fighting 69th." For 157 years the Citizen Soldiers of the Army National Guard have led the city-wide celebration past Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
Rolling with new technology
March 17, 2009
Soldiers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 157th Field Artillery, Colorado Army National Guard, watch as four of their peers experience the Humvee Egress Assistance Trainer at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 20, 2009.
Soldiers put to test in Florida's first Air Assault course
March 17, 2009
Soldiers rappel from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during the Air Assault Course at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, Fla., March 5, 2009.
Army Guard works to eliminate the stigma of seeking help
March 16, 2009
Killey, Arnold recognized at dedication ceremony
March 16, 2009
Maj. Gen. Hank Morrow (left) and Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold unveil the new street sign dedicating the access road to the new 1st Air Force headquarters complex in the former 1st AF commander's honor at a ceremony March 13.
ANG TEC welcomes new commander
March 16, 2009
Col. Richard B. Howard assumes command of the I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tenn., March 13 in a change of command ceremony presided over by Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, the director of the Air National Guard. Howard is the former director of logistics for the National Guard Bureau at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
Air Guard captain mentors teens in Senate Youth program
March 16, 2009
Air Force Capt. Ladonna Singleton, a communications officer with the 254th Combat Communications Group in Garland, Texas, was the only Air Guard member to participate in the Senate Youth Program. The weeklong program that brings young people from across the country to learn more about the political process.
Special screening of new Sesame Street program available to Illinois Guard families
March 13, 2009
Gary Knell, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop and Sesame Street's Elmo and Rosita, speaks with Elmo and Rosita during the screening of "Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change," a Sesame Street special, at the Pentagon, March 18, 2009. Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization, has spent the past two years creating materials to help military families with young children cope with deployments, homecomings and changes.
New Lakotas delivered to D.C. Guard
March 13, 2009
Soldiers with the 121st Medical Company (Air Ambulance) fly their UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters over the Washington, D.C., area during an orientation flight, Friday, March 06, 2009. The unit is the first medical evacuation unit to receive the new helicopters, which will eventually replace the unit's aging fleet of UH-1 Iroquios helicopters.
Top-ranked enlisted leader praises Guardmembers in combat zones
March 13, 2009
Command Sgt. Maj. David Hudson, senior enlisted leader of the National Guard Bureau, speaks with the National Guard's Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen serving at Balad Air Base, Iraq, March 1. Hudson and Gen. Craig R. McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau, visited Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen serving in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait Feb. 28 - March 4.
Petraeus recognizes Rhode Island medic
March 13, 2009
Army Staff Sgt. Matthew, a decorated army medic who served a tour in Iraq with the Rhode Island Army National Guard, poses with an award he accepted at the 3rd annual Armed Services YMCA 'Angels of Battlefield' gala in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 2009.
ESGR: How to avoid employment issues before they happen
March 12, 2009
Air Guard engineers prepare for deployment
March 12, 2009
Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Robert Thomas, an engineer with the 474th Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force, repairs a hole in the diaphragm of a pump at Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp Justice, Sept. 19, 2008. Air Guard civil engineer squadrons manned by hundreds of construction and repair experts will involuntary deploy overseas in historic numbers and scope during the next 24 months.
National Guard engineers work closely with Iraqis
March 12, 2009
Capt. Phil Benner, assistant brigade engineer for 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, points out to a Soldier about what needs to be done to make a pump operational at the Khark Water Treatment Plant south of Tarmiyah. The plant services much of the greater Baghdad areas.
Afghan farmers get help from Nebraska ADT
March 12, 2009
(left to right) Army Sgt. Allen Abbott and Army Staff Sgt. Joseph McMurtrey, 28th Forward Agri-business Development Team, use a compass and measuring tape to accurately measure and mark a local farmer's field for the future planting of a vineyard, Feb. 28.
Obama considers deploying National Guard to border
March 12, 2009
C-130s undergoing inspections
March 11, 2009
Army creates suicide prevention task force during 'stand down'
March 10, 2009
109AW praised for another successful Operation Deep Freeze
March 10, 2009
Maj. David Lafrance, a LC-130 Hercules pilot for the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing, surveys a remote camp in Antarctica Nov. 4 before landing there to transport a critically injured Australian expeditioner to medical care. The Wing's citizen-Airmen flew more than 8.7 million pounds of cargo and 3,800 passengers during nearly 300 missions in support of the 2008-2009 Operation Deep Freeze season that ended Feb. 28.
Alaska Guardsman competes in Iditarod
March 10, 2009
Staff Sgt. Harry Alexie, Alaska Army National Guard, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1/297th Cavalry stands with friend and mentor Lance Mackey, a two-time consecutive Iditarod winner, at the 37th annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race start in downtown Anchorage March 7, 2009. Alexie will be running 16 dogs from Mackey's Comeback Kennel.