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Guard helps thousands flee floods
June 23, 2011
North Dakota National Guard vehicles patrol one of the mandatory evacuation zones in Minot, N.D. on June 22, 2011. The patrols ensure that all citizens have evacuated their homes and to render any required assistance in the areas threatened by the rising water of the Souris River that has exceeded major flood stage.
Kansas National Guard Agribusiness Development Team conducts ‘spur ride’ tradition
June 23, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Pierce, a squad leader for the 3/6 Kansas Cavalry Agribusiness Development Team-III, and Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Kaltenborn, the security forces platoon sergeant also with the ADT, watch as spur ride candidate Air Force Senior Airman Melissa Hidalgo Mendez, a medic and possibly the first female Kansas Air Guard member to ear spurs, demonstrates her weapon skills with the M-16 rifle during her trek through the spur ride conducted on Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, May 25. Pierce and Kaltenborn are spur holders. The tradition of the spur ride and 'earning the spurs' goes back to the origin of the U.S. Cavalry, with new riders learning the ropes prior to donning the spurs that earmark a cavalryman.
Obama announces troop reductions, way forward in Afghanistan
June 23, 2011
President Barack Obama addresses the nation about the way forward in Afghanistan and his plan to remove 10,000 American troops from the country by the end of this year, with a total of 33,000 troops by next summer, at the White House, June 22, 2011.
British soldier works with South Dakota Guard unit during flood operations
June 22, 2011
British Reserves Cpl. Arseny Barkovskiy conducts drivers training in a South Dakota National Guard M-998 “Humvee” truck on Monday June 20, 2011, during the ongoing flood prevention operations along the Missouri River at Dakota Dunes, S.D. Barkovskiy, a British military police soldier with the Allied Rapid Corps’ Military Police Battalion from London, was attached to the South Dakota National Guard’s 235th Military Police Company for two weeks as part of the U.S. Army’s Personnel Exchange Program.
Task Force 'Good Neighbor' leaves Haiti a better place
June 22, 2011
Army Col. Kenneth Donnelly, commander of Task Force Bon Voizen and a Louisiana National Guard member, turns over the keys of a new school and medical clinic to the residents of Upper Poteau, Haiti, June 20, 2011. The school and clinic were two of the engineer projects built in Haiti by troops of Task Force Bon Voizen.
Minot residents ordered to evacuate by 7 p.m. EST
June 22, 2011
Soldiers with the North Dakota National Guard wait for their sandbag-loaded truck to be unloaded in Burlington, N.D., June 21, 2011. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, and the National Guard, are currently raising temporary emergency levees in the city. The Corps' number one priority is protecting human life and will continue to provide technical assistance to local communities affected by historic flooding along the Souris River.
Senate Confirms Panetta as Defense Secretary
June 22, 2011
Leon E. Panetta appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee during confirmation hearings June 9, 2011.
Gates, Mullen protect family programs from budget cuts
June 21, 2011
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, looking on in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2010.
Minnesota National Guard truly 'builds' partnership with Croatia
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Robert Engeholm, a vertical engineer and team leader with the 851st Vertical Engineer Company of the Minnesota National Guard, works with a Croatian soldier to construct a ceiling with concrete blocks, June 15, 2011. Squads of Minnesota Guard members have been rotating through Nasice, Croatia, which is located on the northern slopes of Krndija Mountain in eastern Slavonia, for annual training this spring and summer. The Soldiers are working side by side with Croatian army engineers to complete a project designed to provide training and strengthen the cooperative relationship that exists between Minnesota and Croatia, who are partners through the National Guard's State Partnership Program.
Air Guard, active duty Airmen conduct precision rescue jumpmaster training
June 21, 2011
Air Force Staff Sgt. Travis Brown, a pararescueman with the Kentucky Air National Guard's 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, helps another parachutist collect his gear before the next round of jumpers exit a C-130 cargo airplane, June 8, 2011, during the Precision Rescue Jumpmaster Course conducted at Camp Atterbury, Ind. Students and instructors dropped into the drop zone two at a time and had to clear the field before the next C-130 pass over.
Army National Guard promotes resilience training
June 21, 2011
Members of the Army National's Guard Resilience Trainer Course stand on the flight deck of the USS Midway in San Diego Harbor, April 29, 2011. The course gave Soldiers the skills to assist Master Resilience Trainers for the Guard's Resilience and Risk Reduction and Army Comprehensive Soldier Fitness programs.
Deployed Guard members use medieval war games for entertainment
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Paul Hanson (left), a convoy escort team gunner with Alpha Company, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, brings his sword to bear against Army Sgt. John Oglesby, a convoy escort team gunner with Co. A, 1-163 CAB, in “The Pit” on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. Oglesby has been sparring for about 25 years and shares his hobby with fellow Solders while deployed.
Puerto Rico National Guard brings special skills to Fuerzas Comando 2011
June 21, 2011
Army Spc. Eric Sierra, a Puerto Rican National Guard Soldier assigned to the 191st Readiness Support Company, pumps fuel into a gas can for vehicles in support of the Fuerzas Comando 2011 competition June 13, 2011. Fuerzas Comando, established in 2004, is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored special operations skills competition and senior leader seminar which is conducted annually in Central and South America and the Caribbean and is scheduled to run June 15-23.
Father and son fly high with Illinois Army National Guard
June 20, 2011
Guard-led task force wins hearts 'one patient at a time'
June 20, 2011
235th Military Police Company directs traffic as residents visit threatened homes
June 20, 2011
Army Pfc. Thad Buri, Watertown, a service member of the 235th Military Police Company, directs traffic at a traffic control point in Dakota Dunes, June 17, 2011. Buri and other members of the 235th Military Police Company are conducting traffic control and ID checks as local residents return to survey potential damages to their homes caused by the flooding of the Missouri River.
Bittersweet homecoming for Citizen-Soldier helping Joplin
June 20, 2011
When Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to provide state oversight for the debris removal the process, Missouri National Guardsman, Army Col. William A. Ward, was appointed commander of the task force. Ward was born in St. John’s Hospital, which was hit hard by the tornado and is less than a mile from the armory where his task force is based.
New York Army National Guard aviators retrieve boat from brink of Niagara Falls
June 20, 2011
A New York Army National Guard CH-47 based a the Army Aviation Support Facility in Rochester hoists a New York State Park Police out of the Niagara River on Sunday, June 19.
National Guard ever present for Midwest flood relief
June 20, 2011
Soldiers of the North Dakota National Guard's 816th Engineer Company (Horizontal) responded to a call June 14, 2011, to perform a sandbagging mission raising the levee near Burlington, N.D. Because of the heavy amounts of rain the state received, the 816th was tasked to raise several low spots on levees throughout their area.
Missouri National Guard helps monitor sand boils in northwest Missouri
June 20, 2011
Army Staff Sgt. Brian Garr, a Task Force 110 liaison officer for Andrew Co., records a description and the location of sand boils found near a levee south of Amazonia, Mo., on June 14, 2011. Sand boils occur when water under pressure pushes up through the ground and appears to “boil" up. Sand boils can be a mechanism contributing to a levee failure during floods. These sand boils were determined to not be harmful to the levee at this time. Task Force 110 will continue to monitor these sand boils, along with other key sites as preparations for potential flooding continue in Andrew Co.