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National Guard renews compassionate suicide prevention campaign
May 14, 2010
Sgt. 1st Class Robert Meyers, of the 1138th Medium Truck Company, delivers the National Guard suicide prevention and awareness message to Soldiers of his unit at Jefferson Barracks.
VA Strives to Prevent Vet Suicides
May 14, 2010
Joint Task Force Haiti prepares for 'New Horizon'
May 14, 2010
New Jersey Guardsman honored to be selected for Warrior Games
May 14, 2010
Sgt. Brandon Longe of the New Jersey Army National Guard is competing in the Ultimate Champion competition and sitting volleyball events at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., on May 12, 2010.
Maine Guardsmen running 21 marathons in 21 days
May 14, 2010
Col. Jack Mosher and Maj. Herbert Brock departed Kittery, Maine on May 8 to complete a 21-day, 500-mile Resilience Run to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on May 31 in time to participate in national Memorial Day ceremonies. They will alternate days as a running team, moving roughly 26.2 miles per day from start to finish resting only on Sundays.
South Carolina F-16s deploy to Southwest Asia
May 14, 2010
Capt. Ryan "Bago" Madrid, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot assigned to the 157th Fighter Squadron of the South Carolina Air National Guard prepares to launch from McEntire Joint National Guard Base enroute to an Air Expeditionary Force deployment to Southwest Asia, May 14, 2010.
Air Guard opens access to social media sites
May 14, 2010
West Virginia shares ideas on rural health in Peru
May 14, 2010
Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Steve Nathanson (center) listens as his translator asks a question of an elderly resident of a rural village near Batan Grande in the Lambayeque District of Peru.
State legislators visit Wyoming Guardsmen in North Africa
May 14, 2010
Wyoming state Rep. Lori Millin, back center, watches Tunisian medical technicians demonstrate capabilities during the MEDLITE-10 exercise in Tunisia. Service members from several states visited the north African country while participating in the MEDLITE-10 exercise at Kharrouba Air Base, Bizerte, Tunisia.
Case Study: Arkansas aims efforts at building resiliency
May 14, 2010
Resiliency is one key to preventing suicide, said Army Capt. Tanya Phillips, suicide prevention program manager for the Arkansas National Guard, seen here after leading training at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in Little Rock, Ark., on April 17, 2010. "The resilience is not learned as it might have been in past generations," Phillips said.
New York Air Guard moves radars to Ohio
May 14, 2010
McKinley: FY 2011 budget meets Guard’s needs
May 14, 2010
Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau, responds to a question from Sen. Jim Webb while testifying before the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on personnel in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2010. The committee members were seeking information on budget issues facing the Reserve components.
Guard part of solution to DoD budget woes, chief says
May 14, 2010
Commentary: Suicide Prevention in the Air Force and Air National Guard
May 14, 2010
First Lady calls on nation to support military families
May 13, 2010
First Lady announces military family review
May 13, 2010
Alaska Guardsmen arrive in Vietnam for Pacific Angel
May 13, 2010
Cargo is off-loaded from a C-130 Hercules from the Alaska Air National Guard's 144th Airlift Squadron shortly after they arrived at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 8, 2010. Thirty-nine military personnel from bases around the Pacific and continental U.S. are participating in Operation Pacific Angel 10-2 in the Can Tho area May 10-17. Pacific Angel is a humanitarian and civic assistance program conducted in the Pacific area of responsibility to support U.S. Pacific Command's capacity-building efforts. This is the second time the operation has been held in Vietnam.
"He fell through the cracks"
May 13, 2010
Army Spc. Josh Farmer of the Arkansas National Guard on his last family vacation in Branson, Mo., on July 3, 2009. Farmer killed himself on Sept. 20, 2009. Farmer's death resulted in a stronger focus on helping servicemembers in need.
Indiana Guardsmen beat the blues with extreme sports
May 13, 2010
Sgt. Nicholas Adams, the non-commissioned officer in charge of Outdoor Recreation at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in Indiana speeds around a corner in the third lap during a pure stock race at Brownstown Speedway May 8, 2010.
About the series: Resiliency
May 13, 2010
Army Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill, National Guard Bureau military photojournalist, at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 29, 2009.