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Indiana Guard task force unites first-response capabilities
May 19, 2011
Indiana Army National Guard Spc. Nichole Smith of Franklin, Ind., a medic in the emergency response unit, readies a stretcher during a training exercise at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center near Butlerville, Ind., May 14, 2011. The unit is currently conducting their first collective training exercise in the field in preparation for their validation evaluation slated for August.
Exercises test medical response of 123rd Airlift Wing, VA after major earthquake
May 19, 2011
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Heather Speidel, a medic with the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Medical Group, simulates inserting a breathing tube in the windpipe of a notional plane-crash victim during earthquake-response exercises held May 18, 2011, at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky. The exercises were designed to test the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Kentucky Air Guard to provide medical care following a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault line.
Missouri National Guard plays important part in National Level Exercise
May 19, 2011
Missouri National Guard officers coordinate with their peers in other state and federal agencies during the National Level Exercise at Ike Skelton Training Site in May.
National Guard supports final Endeavour flight
May 19, 2011
Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Endeavour moves along the crawlerway from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., March 11, 2011. Riding atop a crawler-transporter attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, Endeavour's last scheduled 3.4-mile trek to the pad, known as "rollout," took just less than eight hours. (NASA courtesy photo) (Released)
On target for partnership: New York Guard forms bonds in South African rifle match
May 18, 2011
New York National Guard members visit with a tame cheetah at a South African game preserve during their recent trip there for the South African National Defense Force 2011 Regional Combat Rifle Competition.
Officials announce finalists for employer awards
May 18, 2011
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve logo.
Dale Jr., National Guard team implement tire strategies in Dover, finish 12th
May 18, 2011
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 National Guard NASCAR racecar, makes a pit stop as his crew sprint around his car at the Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware May7, 2011. Jr. started the race in the third position and after battling the handling of his car all night, finished in 12th place. He is still in fourth place in the Sprint Cup series standings.
Adjutant General: ‘Always Ready, Always There’ doesn’t just happen
May 18, 2011
Brig. Gen. Donald P. Dunbar, the adjutant general of Wisconsin, photographed May 21, 2009. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. 1st Class Vaughn R. Larson
Guardsmen in Louisiana continue battle along state's waterways
May 18, 2011
VIDELIA, La. – Louisiana National Guardsman Spc. Allen Cormier of Central, La., feels the ground under the water for signs of a sandboil on the west side of the Mississippi River levee outside of Videlia, La., May 14, 2011. More than 25 members of the 225th Engineer Brigade have been working 24 hours a day searching for sandboils and looking for seepage along portions of the 72 miles of levee that protect Concordia Parish from the brimming Mississippi River. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rebekah Malone, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office/Released)
Iowa Guard, Afghan forces work together, increase security in Afghanistan
May 18, 2011
Soldiers of the Iowa National Guard’s 2nd Platoon, Company D, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Lethal, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, TF Red Bulls, and Afghan National Army soldiers conduct a dismounted patrol across farmland near the village of Sahak, Afghanistan, May 10, 2011. The patrol allowed the U.S. and Afghan forces to increase security in the area by removing weapon caches.
National Level Exercise showcases Guard’s interagency operability
May 17, 2011
While units of the Mississippi National Guard are dealing with floods threatening the western part of the state, more than 100 Georgia Army and Air Guard members have set up shop here at the Meridian-Lauderdale County Public Safety Training Center. They will spend the next five days participating in Operation Vigilant Guard 2011, along with some Soldiers and Airmen from the “cotton state” and Florida, and observers from West Virginia and Texas.
2011 Vigilant Guard exercise kicks off in Jefferson County
May 17, 2011
Lt. Col. Timothy Covington, commander of the Wisconsin National Guard's 54th Civil Support Team, coordinates with Jefferson County fire department and Sheriff's Department members during a scenario Saturday morning (May 14) to kick off Vigilant Guard 2011. Vigilant Guard is a large-scale disaster response exercise designed to test National Guard capabilities developed since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and also since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Vigilant Guard shows how local, state and federal agencies would collaborate in response to a real emergency.
NATO Secretary General visits, praises Georgia National Guard
May 16, 2011
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen talks with Georgia National Guard members during a May 9, 2011, visit at which he praised the state's service with NATO and participation in the National Guard State Partnership Program.
Deployed Guard member becomes U.S. citizen
May 16, 2011
Army Spc. Rafael Santos of the Massachusetts National Guard, right, receives a flag flown over Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan, from his platoon leader, Army 1st Lt. Mike Mondello, center, and his platoon sergeant, Army Staff Sgt. Mike Burnes, at a May 5, 2011, celebration welcoming him back to his unit as a new American citizen. The soldiers are security forces members for the provincial reconstruction team in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province.
National Guard Cavalry Soldiers stay focused
May 16, 2011
Army Lt. Col. Phil Appleton, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, 77th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, conducts a pre-combat inspection of weapons of Company Foxtrot, 3rd Battalion. Pre-combat checks and pre-combat inspections are critical elements in the fight against complacency.
Guard pilot serves third Iraq deployment
May 16, 2011
Army Chief Warrant Officer Wayne Wade of the Mississippi National Guard is serving his third deployment to Iraq.
Louisiana Guard members build flood protection, provide security
May 16, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Cedric Grimes, a member of the Louisiana National Guard, operates a Compactor at the southern end of Krotz Springs, La., May 12, 2011. The Louisiana National Guard is working jointly with local, state and parish officials on a nearly two-mile long levee that will add one to nine feet of protection from flooding for 240 homes outside of the town’s ring levee during the opening of the Morganza Spillway.
Eight Guard states active in largest-ever National Level Exercise
May 16, 2011
Members of the Indiana 53rd Civil Support Team assist the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, District 2, Tactical Rescue Team from South Bend, Indiana, pull a mock victim from the rubble during National Level Exercise 2011, a full-scale exercise meant to represent the destruction following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault line. The exercise, taking place at Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex May 16 - 20, will examine the government's ability to implement local, state, and federal catastrophic earthquake response plans.
Wisconsin National Guard to host week-long disaster exercise
May 16, 2011
National Guard cost-effective solution in fiscally constrained times
May 13, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, acting director of the Army National Guard, talks about the Army Guard as an operational force during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington, May 11, 2011. Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley (left), chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Air Force Lt. Gen. Harry "Bud" Wyatt, director of the Air National Guard, also talked about how far the Air Guard and the National Guard as a whole have come since 9/11.