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Wyoming recruiters turn to innovation to seek out new enlistees
April 28, 2017
Alayna Stevenson recites the oath of enlistment, April 4, 2017,in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Alayna's enlistment is a result of a home school event sponsored by the 153rd Recruiting and Retention office.
Colorado National Guard mentors future cyber-warriors
April 28, 2017
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Robert Heflin, left, Colorado Army National Guard telecommunications manager, and Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps students and managers from Denver North High School display their certificates of appreciation from the U.S. Air Force Association 2017 CyberPatriot, National Youth Cyber Defense competition.
New York National Guard exercises its emergency-response command skills as part of Ardent Sentry 17
April 28, 2017
Sgt. 1st Class Michael Giarrusso, a 42nd Infantry Division operations NCO, and Staff Sgt. Diahann Adepegba, a division intelligence NCO in-charge, map out a 10-mile radius of a simulated nuclear blast area in order to identify affected roads and bridges during Ardent Sentry 17 at the 42nd Infantry Division's Troy, N.Y., armory on April 26, 2017.
New York Air Guard pararescue team wrapping up mid-Atlantic rescue of injured seamen
April 27, 2017
Members of the 106th Rescue Wing assigned to New York Air National Guard, run to add additional supplies for a rescue mission to Lajes, Azores, April 24, 2017, Westhampton Beach, N.Y. The mission is to locate the aircraft and drop pararescuemen who will board the ship and provide emergency medical care to the crew.
Colorado National Guard trains and partners in the mountains of Slovenia
April 27, 2017
Colorado National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and Citizen-Airmen participate in the 10th anniversary NATO Non-Commissioned Officer Winter Camp in the mountains of Slovenia, March 3-10, 2017. The Colorado-Slovenia partnership is part of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program.
Service members unite to provide assistance to isolated village in Alaska
April 27, 2017
Pfc. Amanda Schmidling, a horizontal construction engineer with the Arizona National Guard’s 259th Engineer Platoon, drives local school students around during their visit to the Innovative Readiness Training runway extension project at Old Harbor, Alaska, April 20, 2017.
National Guard more relevant and ready for new threats, chief testifies
April 27, 2017
Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, testifies at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Defense hearing on National Guard and Reserve Programs and Readiness, April 26, 2017.
Exercise Cyber Shield 2017 gets underway in Utah
April 26, 2017
Chief Warrant Officer Edwin Parubrub of the Hawaii Army National Guard Defensive Cyberspace Operations-Elements reads through notes while waiting for the introductory briefing for exercise Cyber Shield to begin, at Camp Williams, Utah, April 24, 2017. Cyber Shield 17 is an Army National Guard defensive cyberspace operations exercise with approximately 800 members of the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve and representatives of state and federal government agencies, industry partners and academia taking part. The purpose of the exercise is to provide a collective training event to evaluate cyber operations and set the conditions for team validation.
Belize leaders visit Louisiana Youth Challenge Programs
April 26, 2017
Louisiana National Guard Youth Challenge Program cadets tell their stories to key leaders from Belize during their tour of YCP at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, Louisiana, April 11, 2017. The Belize leaders are hoping to start a youth development program similar to the Guard’s YCP program in Louisiana to give at-risk youth a chance at a better future in Belize.
Virginia and Maryland National Guard units among those participating in Kuwait exercise
April 25, 2017
U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council forces conduct the culminating field-training event of exercise Eagle Resolve 2017, April 6, 2017, in Kuwait's Shuwaikh Port. Eagle Resolve is the premier multi-national exercise in the Gulf region.
New York Air National Guard pararescuemen aiding seamen on stricken ship in Mid-Atlantic
April 25, 2017
Members of the 106th Rescue Wing assigned to New York Air National Guard, prepare to take off for a rescue mission at Lajes, Azores, April 24, 2017, Westhampton Beach, N.Y. The mission is to locate the aircraft and drop para-rescuemen who will board the ship and provide emergency medical care to the crew.
Indiana National Guard's Charlie Med team readies for any health situation
April 25, 2017
Charlie Med, C Company, 113th Brigade Sustainment Battalion, 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Soldiers maintain their skills by training how to administer an EKG during the Spring Field Training Exercise in preparation for Joint Readiness Training Center rotation, #JRTC, later this summer.
Wildland firefighters and aviators conclude annual training in Boise
April 25, 2017
A C130h aircraft loaded with the MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) from the 152nd Airlift Wing of Reno, Nevada drops a water line while training to contain wildfires just outside Boise, Idaho. April 21, 2017. More than 400 personnel of four C-130 Guard and Reserve units — from California, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming, making up the Air Expeditionary Group — were in Boise, Idaho for the week-long wildfire training and certification.
New York Guard was born in World War I as the National Guard went to war
April 24, 2017
New York Guard members identified as Jake, Jim, Garry, Dick,Tom, Bill, and Hill mount Guard near New Paltz, N.Y., sometime during 1918 in this photograph taken by Thomas F. Burke, a member of the New York Guard, the force which replaced the New York National Guard during World War I. The men guarded the 95-mile lone water line which carried water to New York City from Catskill Mountain reservoirs to protect it against German sabatoge.
Ted, the therapy dog, helping support Wisconsin's military kids
April 24, 2017
Ted, a German Shepherd/Coonhound mix, engages in Wisconsin National Guard Service Member Support Division programs such as Yellow Ribbon events and Youth Camp as a therapy dog.
Big training for wildland firefighting yields big results
April 24, 2017
Wyoming Air National Guard Lt. Col. Ryan Scofield, MAFFS instructor pilot, discusses an upcoming training sortie with members of Nevada Air National Guard's 152nd Airlift Wing. Members of all four MAFFS-designated wings came together for annual certification and training in Boise, Idaho, April 19-24, 2017.
Indiana's 'Nighthawks' spring into Joint Readiness Training Center
April 21, 2017
Soldiers from C Co. 1-293rd Infantry Battalion, 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 'Nighthawks,' Indiana Army National Guard, pull security while bunkered down in the defense April 10, 2017, during the Spring Field Training Exercise in preparation for Joint Readiness Training Center rotation, #JRTC, later this summer.
National Guard, Reserve gather for annual aerial firefighting training
April 21, 2017
A California Air National Guard C-130 aircraft flies by a Nevada Air National Guard C-130 during this week's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System training and certification. More than 400 personnel of four C-130 Guard and Reserve units — from California, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming, making up the Air Expeditionary Group — are in Boise, Idaho for the week-long wildfire training and certification sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service.
Moulage artists make a drill realistic as Homeland Response Force readies in Spokane
April 21, 2017
Chief Warrant Officer Two Robert Taylor, right, an evaluator from the Joint Interagency Training and Education Center (JITEC), observes as members of the Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force (HRF) conduct training at the Spokane Readiness Center Apr. 7-9, 2017.
Unique trainer modernizing face of helicopter simulator flying in Iowa
April 20, 2017
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Travis Vanlengen, an Iowa Army National Guard UH-60M instructor pilot with Company C, 2nd Brigade, 147th Aviation Battalion, of Boone, Iowa, and a certified Black Hawk Aircrew Trainer instructor-operator, monitors a pilot’s flight at the Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training Center, in Johnston, Iowa. The instructor-operator’s screens allow him to see the pilot inside the aircraft, as well as watch their flight path on a map, while controlling stress factors, such as inclement weather, enemy fire and mechanical failures. Vanlengen said these safety hazards are possible, both in peacetime and at war, and can be fatal without the proper training.