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National Guard unit makes quick switch from exercise to real world relief
March 22, 2011
Air Force Master Sgt. Randall Dechant, deployment and distribution flight superintendant with the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron, works with members of the 15 Brigade, Japan Ground Self Defense Force to load and prepare supplies on trucks headed to mainland Japan, March 16, 2011. Teams from the 15 Brigade, JGSDF are heading to northern Japan to aid earthquake and tsunami victims with trucks loaded with supplies including clothes, blankets and toiletries.
Resiliency a theme at North Dakota Guard family event
March 18, 2011
Jessica Clark-Woinarowicz, North Dakota National Guard state youth coordinator, holds the microphone for Guard children to ask Army Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk, North Dakota adjutant general, some impromptu questions at the Adjutant General's Symposium for Families in Bismarck, N.D., March 5.
Iowa Guardsman keeps professional fighting dream alive while deployed
March 18, 2011
Army Pfc. Scott Suhr, an Iowa Army National Guardsman with Company B, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, works on his punches with help from Army Pfc. Richard Reichardt, left, infantryman with Company B, at Forward Operating Base Torkham Gate's gym March 10, 2011. Suhr, who fought for the welterweight title in the Mainstream Mixed Martial Arts circuit in Iowa, is not losing sight of his professional fighting aspirations during his year-long deployment to Afghanistan.
Iowa Guard forward repair station keeps Soldiers rolling
March 18, 2011
Iowa Army National Guard Spc. Chad Vieth, a metal worker with Company B, 334th Brigade Support Battalion, Task Force Archer, a part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls, grinds metal at Company B's forward repair station on Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, March 11, 2011.
National Guard supports Japan earthquake relief
March 18, 2011
Airmen from the 89th Aerial Port Squadron load pallets onto a C-17 Globemaster III, March 12, 2011, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Air transportation Airmen from the 89th Aerial Port Squadron at Joint Base Andrews created 14 pallets of technical search and rescue gear, to include inflatable swift-water rescue boats, generators, trench rescue and cutting equipment. The gear was being transported by C-17 to more than 80 Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue technicians to provide assistance in the rescue effort after an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11.
National Guard's State Partnership Program hosts Armenian police in Kansas
March 18, 2011
Flag of the Republic of Armenia.
Kentucky Guard unit works to make Afghan agriculture cream of the crop
March 18, 2011
A Kentucky National Guard ADT 2 member fits a .50-caliber machine gun to a vehicle. The Kentucky Agriculture Development Team met with director of agriculture, irrigation and livestock, Abdul Farzam, on March 5 at the Korean Provincial Reconstruction Team's Camp to discuss how to develop the Parwan province's farming and agriculture over the next 12 months.
Last American World War I veteran served briefly in National Guard
March 18, 2011
Frank Buckles in World War I.
National Guard takes several honors in U.S. Army public affairs competition
March 18, 2011
U.S. Army seal.
When the New York Guard's 69th leads the parade, their dogs come along
March 18, 2011
New York Army National Guard Sgt. Adam Drobecker with one of the 69th Infantry's Wolfhound Mascots.
Senator, congressman recognized for contribution to National Guard
March 18, 2011
Rep. Dave Loebsack, Iowa, is presented an award by Air Force Lt. Gen. Bud Wyatt, chief of the Air Guard, and retired Chief Master Sgt. Roger Hagan, president of the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States, during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2011. The congressman received the award for his significant contribution to the National Guard through his legislation of the Post 9/11 GI Bill.
Iowa National Guardmembers help protect Afghanistan border
March 17, 2011
Army Spc. John Meyer and Spc. Chris Linssen, infantrymen with Company B, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Bulls, watch the pedestrian walkway with an Afghan Border Police dog handler at Torkham Gate on the Afghanistan border March 7.
New York's Historic 69th Infantry to Lead St. Patrick's Day Parade
March 17, 2011
Soldiers from the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry lead the citywide St. Patrick’s Day parade past Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
Missouri National Guard hosts Panamanians through State Partnership Program
March 15, 2011
Sgt. Mike Turner, a road officer with the Missouri Highway Patrol, describes the capabilities of his patrol car to members of the State Partnership Program between the Missouri National Guard and Panama Lt. Vince Rice, assistant director of professional standards division, watches on as Army 2nd. Lt. Arturo Ibarra of the Missouri National Guard translates in Jefferson City March 2.
McCain: National Guard one of reasons homeland defense succeeds
March 14, 2011
Sen. John McCain attends the 129th National Guard Association of the United States General Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. 25, 2007.
Nevada Guard spouse garners nationwide military honor
March 10, 2011
Rebecca Taulman was recently named the Air National Guard' 2011 Joan Orr Spouse of the Year Award. She now competes against nominees from the Air Force Reserve and more than a dozen other Air Force commands.
Missouri Guard ADT’s Leadership Academy works toward transparent government
March 10, 2011
Dr. Hamdy Oushy, forage and rangeland specialist for the Afghanistan Water, Agriculture and Technology Transfer Project, gives a presentation to the commanders of the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agribusiness Development Team, the Illinois National Guard's 1-14th Agribusiness Team, Missouri ADT IV and Missouri ADT V at the Shishem Bagh Research Station Jan. 28, 2011. Leaders of the ADTs met in Jalalabad Jan. 28 for an ADT conference.
Defense Department reaches out to Guard, Reserve employers
March 10, 2011
Dennis McCarthy, the assistant secretary of defense for Reserve Affairs, addresses the 132nd General Conference of the National Guard Association of the United States in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 21, 2010. “Every man and women who’s serving in uniform today … either enlisted or re-enlisted since 9/11,” McCarthy said. “They made a conscious choice to serve under the conditions that we are in today.”
Kentucky National Guard aviators set simulator record
March 10, 2011
Kentucky National Guard aviators fly one of the record 36 mission runs for the Air Soldier System situational awareness technologies being tested in the Battlefield Highly Immersive Virtual Environment Laboratory. The co-pilot pictured here was assisting the pilot land the aircraft during a “brown-out” landing. A “brown-out” landing is a landing in sand and dust that creates a degraded visual environment and hinders the pilot’s ability to land the aircraft visually.
Illinois National Guard Soldier sings for love, not fame
March 10, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Jennifer Kohany sings the National Anthem at the retirement ceremony for Brig. Gen. Ronald Morrow, the deputy commander of the Illinois Army National Guard.