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Guard operates in several states as relief efforts continue
May 4, 2011
A team of Illinois Army National Guard Soldiers, with the 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment are taken by a Sheriff Department's boat to the water and sewer treatment facility in Murphysboro, Ill. April 30, 2011.
Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers rescue woman in dramatic flood video
May 4, 2011
Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers Spc. Junior Bombard, of Ozark and Sgt. Tim Bridges, both of the 1138th Military Police Company, located in West Plains and Springfield, earned the title Citizen-Heroes after being caught on videotape while completing a daring rescue of a 93-year-old woman on the swollen Black River.
Mrs. Mullen spotlights family issues in new blog
May 3, 2011
Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his wife, Deborah, speak with Fort Bliss enlisted spouses in El Paso, Texas, March 10, 2011. Deborah Mullen is launching a new blog to pass on information and resources to military spouses around the world.
Mongolians' visit to Alaska continues success of State Partnership Program
May 3, 2011
Mongolian Col. Davaadorj Rendoo, Mongolian armed forces general staff, observes U.S. military medical professionals perform veterinary services on a dog in Northway, Alaska. During Operation Arctic Care, medical teams deploy to remote areas of Alaska to treat general health patients, in addition to providing dental care, eye exams and veterinary care.
U.S. service members, FARDC make final push to exercise finale
May 3, 2011
Air Force Maj. Michelle Mulberry, an aeromedical evacuation flight nurse and instructor with the Wyoming Air National Guard's 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, conducts training to members of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s armed forces quick response force, about C-130 Hercules familiarization during MEDLITE 11, May 2, 2011.
Utah Guard units, local Iraqi police conduct joint humanitarian mission
May 3, 2011
On April 4 members of A Company and Headquarters Company, 141st MI Bn., coordinating with C Battery, 2-11th Field Artillery stationed at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, conducted a humanitarian mission with the local Shehabi Iraqi Police Department.
Florida Guard unit supports force protection at Bagram
May 2, 2011
Spc. Joseph Deramo, left, and Spc. Xavier Flores, right, look on as Army Pfc. Audrey Triplett monitors input from one of three 107-foot Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment towers and eight other sites the 164th Air Defense Artillery operates to provide force protection at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, and for troops operating outside the wire.
‘Business as usual’ not so usual for Missouri National Guard
May 2, 2011
Army Col. Wendul Hagler, task force commander of Operation Rising Tide and commander of the 70th Troop Command, Jefferson Barracks, assesses flood conditions in southeast Missouri on April 27, 2011
ROUND-UP: Significant week in Defense Department news
April 30, 2011
Department of Defense Seal
Panetta would bring decades of service to Pentagon
April 30, 2011
Department of Defense Seal
Texas Guard's Afghan ties growing roots
April 30, 2011
Army Maj. Gen. Darren Owens, special assistant to the director, Army National Guard, helps plant a tree symbolizing cooperation between Afghan government officials and National Guard Agricultural Development Teams during a ceremony at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C
Congolese teach important skills in disease prevention to U.S. service members during MEDLITE 11
April 29, 2011
KINSHASA, Democratic Repulic of Congo -- Congolese Col. Omer Djembe Kitenge, Coordinator of the fight against malaria for the DRC military, answers questions from U.S. military members during a Congolesian lead training at the Centre Superior Militiare Academy here today as part of MEDLITE 11. MEDLITE 11 is a joint medical exercise focused on aeromedical evacuation, to improve the readiness of U.S. Air Force and DRC personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Todd Wivell)
Tornado damage to Lambert Air National Guard base tops $10 million
April 29, 2011
Cleanup efforts continue at the 131st Bomb Wing just days after a category EF2 tornado hit Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport and swept across the Lambert-Saint Louis Air National Guard Base, April 22, 2011. No injuries were reported to Air National Guard personnel, but there was widespread damage across the south side of the base. Estimates for repair to the base could top $10 million.
New York National Guard to host US/Canada senior military leader conference
April 28, 2011
Canadian army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Novia Scotia Highlanders (North), prepare to fire on a range at Fort Pickett, Va., Feb. 16, 2009.
Department of Defense Issues Purple Heart Standards for Brain Injury
April 28, 2011
Military Order of the Purple Heart
UPDATE: About 3,000 Guard members respond to domestic weather-related disasters
April 28, 2011
About 1,100 Alabama National Guard members are supporting civilian authorities after tornadoes ravaged the state Wednesday.
National Guard tackles deadly storms, fires, floods
April 28, 2011
Kentucky National Guard members Army Pfc. David Barrow, Army Spc. Tommy Wyatt and Army Pvt. Cedric Bransford, 2113th Transportation Company, assist local residents in flood relief mission in Oscar, Ky., April 27, 2011. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael J. Oliver) (Released)
Iowa Guard Agribusiness Development Team saves Afghan man's eyesight
April 28, 2011
Spc. Daniel Kersbergen, security forces team member with the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team, administers an intravenous fluids bag to Roz Amin, an injured Afghan road worker, as Army Staff Sgt. Michael Martinez, the ADT's senior combat medic, supervises at the Sarkani District Center April 25, 2011.
New York Guard family program says family readiness is key to Guard success
April 27, 2011
Greg Stevens (right), 4-H community educator, helps Dokota Mattern, 8, build a bluebird house during a natural resource lab as part of the N.Y. National Guard Family and Youth Training Workshop, April 16, 2011. The N.Y. National Guard Youth program provides support and skills training in leadership, mentoring and resource coordination that reflect the unique needs of military children.
Exchanging aeromedical evacuation training across the continents
April 27, 2011
Lt. Col. Mark Desjardins (right) speaks with military members representing the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwandan attendees of MEDLITE 11, April 26, 2011, at Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. MEDLITE 11 is a joint medical exercise focused on aeromedical evacuation, to improve the readiness of U.S. Air Force and DRC personnel. Colonel Desjardins is a family practice doctor with the Rhode Island Air National Guard's 143rd Airlift Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Orrell)