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Pacific Command exercise program integrates disaster-response drills
September 6, 2012
Navy personnel react to a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief scenario during the Rim of the Pacific 2012 exercise at Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, June 20, 2012. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel participated in the biennial exercise.
Panetta welcomes Grass as 27th National Guard chief
September 6, 2012
Promotion of Army Lt. Gen. Frank Grass to General and change of responsibility ceremony swearing in Gen. Grass as the 27th Chief of the National Guard Bureau in the Pentagon Auditorium on Sept. 7, 2012.
California Air National Guard, Coast Guard team up for rescue mission
September 5, 2012
Insignia of the 129th Rescue Wing
Estonian air force pilots deploy with Maryland Army Guard aviation unit as part of SPP partnership
September 5, 2012
Estonian air force Capts. Rene Kallis, right, and Martin Noorsalu, middle, go over a flight plan with a Maryland Army National Guard member at Weide Army Airfield in Edgewood, Md. After training with the Maryland Army Guard for a year as part of the State Partnership Program, the Estonian pilots are scheduled deploy to Afghanistan where they will serve with the Maryland Army Guard's C Company, 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation Regiment, a medical evacuation unit that deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year.
Ethiopia: Texas Army National Guard Soldiers deliver care packages to orphanage
September 5, 2012
Army Sgt. Timothy Ryan, part of the Texas Army National Guard's 3rd Squadron, 124th Cavalry Regiment, and Sgt. 1st Class Loren Ledlow of the same unit, deliver several boxes of personal hygiene items to an orphanage in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
Mississippi Army Guard engineers work to repair levee damaged by Hurricane Isaac
September 4, 2012
Soldiers with the Mississippi Army National Guard's 890th Engineer Battalion work to alleviate pressure from floodwaters of Hurricane Isaac on the Percy Quinn State Park levee in McComb, Miss. The project will take approximately a week to complete. Officials in Tangipahoa Parish, La. fear that the water from the lake's dam could flow into rivers swollen from the effects of Isaac and flood area homes.
Pentagon officials: Guard members serving 'admirably' during Hurricane Isaac response
September 4, 2012
Senior Airman Randy Bullock, air traffic controller with the Louisiana National Guard's 259th Air Traffic Control Squadron, loads a case of water into the back of a vehicle of a resident affected by Hurricane Isaac in New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2012. The LANG has more than 6,000 Soldiers and Airmen on duty to support local and state authorities in the aftermath of Isaac.
Vigilant Guard North Carolina prepares Guard members for disaster situations
September 4, 2012
Soldiers from the 877th Engineer Company respond to a simulated large scale disaster situation as part of Vigilant Guard North Carolina, a training exercise that paired up National Guard elements with local and state first responders, at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Idaho Guard calls up more troops for Idaho wildfire duty, California Guard continues with wildfire mission throughout the Golden State
September 4, 2012
Air crews from the California Army National Guard take off in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter as they take part in wildfire suppression efforts in Northern California. Members of the California National Guard have been assisting the U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection with extinguishing wildfires throughout the state.
Iraqi Air Force F-16 training takes off with help from Arizona Air National Guard
September 4, 2012
Air Force Col. Andrew MacDonald, commander of the Arizona Air National Guard's 162nd Operations Group, goes over pre-flight checks of an F-16D Fighting Falcon aircraft with Iraqi Air Force Brig. Gen. Abdulhussein Lafta Ali Ali before an orientation flight at Tucson International Airport Aug. 30. Abdulhussein, with a delegation of senior Iraqi officers, visited the international F-16 training wing where Iraqi pilots are learning to fly the multi-role fighter.