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Hawaii National Guard in Guam for Vigilant Guard 2020 exercise
November 22, 2019
Members of the Hawaii National Guard's 93rd Civil Support Team load an Airman with a simulated injury on a Guam National Guard Lakota helicopter for transport during exercise Vigilant Guard 2020, Guam, Nov. 21, 2019.
NY, NJ National Guard troops train for disaster response
November 22, 2019
New York Army National Guard search-and-extraction team members assigned to Bravo Company, 152nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, prepare a simulated victim for extraction during Homeland Response Force training at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst in Lakehurst, N.J. Nov.15, 2019.
Michigan, Latvia expand regional airfield coordination
November 22, 2019
Members of the Michigan Air National Guard and the Latvian Air Force pose Nov. 15, 2019, after a planning meeting at Lielvārde Air Base, Latvia, to chart cooperation under the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership Program.
142nd FW Guard participates in Checkered Flag 2019
November 22, 2019
Airmen from the 142nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon, service an F-15 Eagle during Checkered Flag, Nov. 12, 2019, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Checkered Flag is a multi-airframe, joint-service exercise that enables pilots to carry out complex air-to-air combat scenarios.
WVNG hosts multiagency swift water search-and-rescue exercise
November 21, 2019
First responders maneuver their boat into rotor wash from a West Virginia Army National Guard UH-60M Blackhawk helicopter assigned to Company C, 1-150th Assault Battalion on the Kanawha River during a joint-agency swift water search-and-rescue exercise led by the WVNG’s Army Interagency Training and Education Center Nov. 15, 2019, in Dunbar, W.Va.
WVNG hosts Peruvian general under State Partnership Program
November 21, 2019
Army Col. Kermit D. Huebner, West Virginia Army National Guard flight surgeon, briefs Maj. Gen. Mario E. Risco Carmen, defense and military attaché to the Embassy of Peru in Washington, D.C., on Army aviation medicine during a State Partnership Program (SPP) visit at Joint Force Headquarters, Charleston, W.Va., Nov. 12, 2019.
First WWII Native American Medal of Honor recipient honored
November 21, 2019
203rd RED HORSE Squadron conducts field training exercise
November 21, 2019
Airmen assigned to the 203rd RED HORSE Squadron work in a four-day field training exercise Nov. 16, 2019, at State Military Reservation, Virginia Beach, Virginia. More than 150 Airmen practiced skills they would perform in a deployed environment.
Alaska Guardsman receives Bronze Star
November 21, 2019
Maj. Javier Lopez, Alaska National Guard staff judge advocate, received a Bronze Star medal Nov. 19, 2019, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, for his service in Operation Enduring Freedom from May 2012 to April 2013. The award was presented to Lopez by Brig. Gen. Charles Lee Knowles, commander of the Alaska Army National Guard.
Innovative partnership cuts NJ Guard facility costs
November 21, 2019
John D. Foster creates a digital image from photos taken by a 3D laser scanner of a New Jersey Army National Guard armory at the Sustainable Facilities Center at the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J., Nov. 19, 2019. Rowan University faculty, staff and students at the center are helping the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and the New Jersey Army National Guard efficiently operate facilities.
West Virginia Guard engineers complete JROTC obstacle course
November 20, 2019
A West Virginia Army National Guard Soldier assigned to the 1092nd Engineer Battalion uses a mallet to drive a post into place to complete an obstacle course for the Sissonville High School Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. Twelve engineers from the WVANRG completed the obstacle course project in one week as a part of an Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program.
Recruits get a taste of soldiering at Spartan Forge 2019
November 20, 2019
Trainees march in formation to breakfast at Camp Shelby Joint Force Training Center, Nov. 16, 2019, during the Mississippi Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion’s annual Spartan Forge event.
Wife, husband start National Guard careers together
November 20, 2019
From left to right: PV2 Hunter White, PV2 April Talaiga and Staff Sgt. Marilyn Gerhardt stand with the Minuteman statue at Camp Murray Nov. 17, 2019. The couple joined the Guard together on Oct. 30, 2019.
National Guard captain seizes UK learning opportunity
November 20, 2019
Capt. Nima Sarrafan, front row, second from right, stands with his class peers for a photo before a formal dinner as part of training at the United Kingdom Intermediate Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, England, in October 2019.
Delaware National Guard joins disaster response exercise
November 19, 2019
A C-5M Super Galaxy is unloaded during Total Force/Joint Training Exercise Diamond Wing at New Castle Air National Guard Base, Del., Nov. 14, 2019. The C-5M Super Galaxy is the largest strategic airlifter in the Department of Defense, capable of carrying more than 280,000 pounds of cargo.
California Guard, Reserve come together for Yellow Ribbon event
November 19, 2019
Maj. Gen. Alberto Rosende, commanding general of the 63rd Readiness Division, and his wife, Martha, talk to an Army Reserve Soldier and his spouse at a Yellow Ribbon event in Anaheim, California, Nov. 16, 2019.
Wisconsin Guard helps test state disaster response
November 18, 2019
Fictional protesters confront Soldiers from the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 32nd Military Police Company at an entry control point at a power substation in Racine County Nov. 13, 2019, as part of GridEx, an exercise that tested Wisconsin’s capacity to respond to a long-term mass power outage.
Family, in and out of uniform
November 18, 2019
From left to right: Lt. Col. Annie Lee, G4 for the 184th Sustainment Command, Sgt. Nia Davis, a human resources noncommissioned officer with the Higher Headquarters Command 66th Troop Command, and Brigade Command Sgt. Maj. for the 407th Army Field Support Brigade Stephanie Price. Davis’ family members Lee (mother) and Price (aunt) were in attendance for her promotion ceremony from specialist to sergeant.
U.S., Qatar rev up Eastern Action exercise
November 18, 2019
Qatari Emiri Land Force and U.S. military leadership receive the mission brief for Eastern Action, Oct. 31, 2019. U.S. Army Col. Steve Fabiano, the Area Support Group - Qatar commander, left center, looks at terrain map, as Brig. Gen. Steven T. King, a Task Force Spartan deputy commanding general, 38th Infantry Division, Indiana National Guard, listens to the brief.
Maine hosts National Guard disaster response training
November 15, 2019
Soldiers with the search-and-extraction element of the New England CERFP practice drilling through concrete while searching for simulated casualties during a Nov. 5-7 collective training exercise in Brunswick, Maine.