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Extreme weather makes 2015 National Guard’s busiest year since 2011
December 31, 2015
Soldiers from the Idaho Army National Guard's 2nd Squadron, 116th Cavalry Regiment prepare to head out on a training exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California in August, 2015.
Historic flood levels bring out the National Guard in Missouri, elsewhere
December 31, 2015
Soldiers from the 1137th Military Police Company discuss logistics at a notification point in Perryville, Missouri. More than 515 National Guard personnel were on duty in the hard-hit state due to historic levels of water.
Youth ChalleNGe program helps “at risk” teens find roads to success
December 30, 2015
Devin Dunn, a cadet with the Maryland National Guard’s Freestate ChalleNGe Academy, which provides a means for "at risk" 16-to-18-year-olds to earn their GED certificate or high school diploma, works through math problems during class at the academy, Nov. 17, 2015. Part of the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe Program, which includes 37 academies throughout the country, the Freestate ChalleNGe Academy opened in 1993 and was one of the first academies of the program.
New Mexico National Guard transports people needing medical treatment during blizzard
December 30, 2015
Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Vaillancourt, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 717th Brigade Support Battalion, takes a chilly photo with a Roswell citizen he helped transport to the Fresenius Medical Care center Dec. 29. One of the missions currently being performed by members of the New Mexico National Guard is the transportation of Roswell, N.M., citizens in need of dialysis treatments. Citizens were snowed in to their homes due to a winter blizzard that caused roads to be impassable. For at least two days, local members of the National Guard traversed the icy, snow packed conditions to help citizens in need. (Courtesy photo)
Buffalo Army National Guard Unit honored for unit video by New York's adjutant general
December 29, 2015
New York Army National Guard's 152nd Engineer Company, recipients of the New York National Guard's 2015 best unit video award for their production highlighting unit annual training, disaster response operations, unique engineer competitions and the organization's family readiness program.
New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen conducted more than 10K military funerals in 2015
December 29, 2015
New York Army National Guard Honor Guard member Spc. Taylor Kuchera plays "Taps" to honor WWII veteran Leo P. Dean during Dean's funeral at St. Mary's Cemetery in Waterford, N.Y., Dec. 17, 2015. Kuchera is from Kingston, N.Y.
Louisiana engineer company and families have their best Christmas ever
December 28, 2015
Staff Sgt. Chad Lawless, of Swartz, La., kisses his wife, Angela, and hugs his daughter, Lily, 4, and sons, Luke, 2, and Levi, 6 months. Lawless met Levi for the first time in person at the welcome-home event in Monroe, La., Dec. 24, 2015. More than 150 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 1023rd Engineer Company, 528th Engineer Battalion just completed a 10-month deployment to Kuwait, with additional missions to Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
CNGB Holiday Message to the Force
December 25, 2015
Army Gen. Frank Grass, chief, National Guard Bureau, at the Germia Hill Talks during a troop visit and operational assessment, Pristina, Kosovo, Nov. 24, 2015.
Virgin Island and Florida Civil Support Teams train in interoperability
December 24, 2015
A survey team member of the 23rd Civil Support Team tests the pH level of an unknown liquid that was collected for testing during a terrorist threat exercise, Dec. 3, 2015. The 23rd and 48th CSTs participated in Operation Guardian Spear, an inter-operability exercise that tested how both CSTs and the FBI team worked together to protect the citizens on the Virgin Islands.
Pennsylvania’s Fort Indiantown Gap No. 1 for training in 2015
December 23, 2015
Autumn colors are on display at Fort Indiantown Gap, Nov. 4, 2105. The 17,000-acre Army installation offers many great fall activities as well as some breathtaking scenery.
Oregon Air National Guard will be helping track Santa
December 21, 2015
Many National Guard and active-duty units are pitching in Christmas Eve to help track Santa Claus on his journey from the North Pole.
New York Air National Guard will help NORAD track Santa on Christmas Eve
December 21, 2015
Staff Sgt. Tom Silva and Staff Sgt. Rachael Alcorta practice Santa tracking at the Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome. EADS plays a supporting role in NORAD's annual Santa tracking.
Air National Guard security teams use virtual reality to train for active shooters
December 21, 2015
A U.S Air Force Security Forces Airman from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 108th Wing gets feedback from a U.S. Marshal instructor in a firearms training simulator at a U.S. Marshal training site in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, on Dec. 12, 2015.
50 years ago, Air National Guard brought Christmas to troops in Vietnam
December 18, 2015
A U.S. Army ground crew unloads Christmas gifts from a Georgia Air National Guard C-97. The aircraft was one of approximately 80 Air National Guard planes to participate in Operation Christmas Star.
New York Air Guard wing makes first remotely piloted aircraft flight from airfield shared by military and civilian aviation
December 17, 2015
An MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft operated by the New York Air National Guard's 174th Attack Wing takes to the air from the runway at Syracuse Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, New York, on Dec. 16, 2015.
Idaho medical staff Airmen capture national recognition
December 15, 2015
The 124th Medical Group poses for a group photo in front of the clinic Oct. 4, 2015 at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho.
National Guard forces join exercise Yama Sakura 69 in Japan
December 15, 2015
Service members from the Japan Self Defense Force and the United States participate Dec. 8, 2015, in the Yama Sakura 69 exercise at the Middle Army Headquarters in Camp Itami, Japan. More than 5,000 service members participated in the annual bilateral training exercise.
NORAD continues the 60-year tradition of tracking Santa
December 14, 2015
Volunteer tracker Matthew Harvey joined his mother Col. Tina Harvey to help answer emails from children and parents across the globe while at the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado., Dec. 24, 2014.
Pa. flight medic departs for fifth deployment
December 14, 2015
Pennsylvania Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Kwiecien, a flight medic with nearly 20 years of service, is deploying to Southwest Asia soon with Detachment 1, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation Regiment, where he will serve as noncommissioned officer in charge of the unit.
Meals, ready-to-savor: Student chefs show cooking chops with Army chow
December 10, 2015
Student chefs wait in anticipation as New York Army National Guard culinary specialists Sgt. Duwann Gordon, middle, and Pvt. Yorby Fernandez (right) judge a meal the students prepared using MRE food components at a Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) vocational education facility in Goshen, New York, Dec. 4, 2015. The students prepared meals with MREs as part of a New York Army National Guard educational challenge designed to test their skills and familiarize them with Army careers. The students chefs are, from left: Tyra Chase, a Middletown High School junior; Tushana Clarke and Nina Lucas, both juniors at Port Jervis High School.