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Northern Strike remains Guard’s premier joint fires exercise
June 25, 2020
U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party Airmen point out targets during tactical training at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center in Michigan during Northern Strike 19, July 24, 2019. The National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise will continue in 2020, uniting service members from more than 20 states, multiple service branches and numerous coalition countries at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in northern Michigan.
Massachusetts Guard helps process unemployment claims
June 25, 2020
Spc. Lionel Courturier and Spc. William Casey, combat engineers with the 182nd Engineer Company (SAPPER), Massachusetts National Guard, take a quick break to brief the plans for the unit patch and T-shirt they designed while assigned to Task Force Steel Dragon June 18, 2020. TF Steel Dragon is helping process a surge in unemployment cases submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wisconsin Guard's Civil Support Team among nation’s best
June 25, 2020
Lt. Col. Joseph Davison, left, and 1st Sgt. Kenneth Prieur, commander and first sergeant of the Wisconsin National Guard's 54th Civil Support Team, attach the 2020 Maj. Gen. William L. Sibert Award streamer to the unit's guidon during a June 23, 2020, virtual U.S. Army Chemical Corps ceremony. The U.S. Army Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) School annually presents the Sibert Award to the top CBRN units in the active component, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard.
Colorado National Guard grows expertise in extreme weather
June 25, 2020
U.S. Army Spc. Dane Kastl, a search-and-extraction team member with the Colorado National Guard’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield explosive Enhanced Response Force Package, performs an extraction by removing the door of an overturned vehicle during Exercise Arctic Eagle 2020, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, Feb. 26, 2020.
Former Alaska National Guard TAG is NGB inspector general
June 25, 2020
Army Maj. Gen. Laurie Hummel makes remarks during her January 2019 retirement ceremony as the adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard. Hummel came out of retirement to become the National Guard Bureau inspector general in May 2020.
Wisconsin Guard tops 150,000 COVID-19 specimens collected
June 24, 2020
Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers and Airmen collect specimens for COVID-19 testing May 5, 2020, at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis. The Guard has collected more than 154,000 specimens across the state.
West Virginia Task Force Medical in thick of COVID-19 fight
June 24, 2020
The West Virginia National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Battalion, the 35th Civil Support Team (CST), and the 35th Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), which make up Task Force CRE, collaborated with Task Force Medical to help state agencies with COVID-19 testing May 22, 2020, in Charleston.
National Guard ready for hurricane season
June 24, 2020
Texas Army National Guard Soldiers rescue Houston residents from floodwaters caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. As the 2020 hurricane season ramps up, National Guard members throughout the country stand ready to respond if needed.
Oregon National Guard completes PPE mission
June 24, 2020
Oregon Army National Guard Soldiers check their trucks and load of personal protective equipment (PPE) before departing for deliveries throughout the state of Oregon. Approximately 200 Soldiers and Airmen were activated in the Oregon National Guard in response to various COVID-19 missions.
Cal National Guard Soldiers assist car wreck victim
June 24, 2020
Soldiers with the California National Guard's 1st Battalion, 185th Infantry Regiment, responded to a car accident in Los Angeles June 2, 2020. Spc. Abdel Rahman Ali, 1-185th combat medic, assisted an injured civilian while other members of the team put out a brush fire caused by the accident and redirected traffic.
June 1950: The Georgia National Guard and the Korean War
June 23, 2020
Georgia National Guard Capt. Barney Casteel at the controls of the first F-84 Thunderjet assigned to the 128th Fighter Squadron. On Jan 21, 1952, while assigned to the 136th Bomber Wing, Casteel was killed conducting an armed reconnaissance mission north of Pyongyang, North Korea. He was the last Georgia Air National Guard pilot killed in Korea.
West Virginia field artillery unit resumes normal training
June 23, 2020
A crew member of the West Virginia National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 201st Field Artillery (FA), in an M109 A6 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzer at Camp Dawson, Kingwood, West Virginia, June 14, 2020. The 201st FA is conducting Field Artillery Tables 1-5 pre-certification qualifications.
Texas National Guard medics conduct COVID-19 antibody tests
June 22, 2020
U.S. Army Spc. Maritssa Quintanilla, a combat medic specialist assigned to Operation Guardian Support, draws blood from a Soldier at the Weslaco Armory in Weslaco, Texas, June 19, 2020. Service members who were exposed to someone who tested positive to coronavirus had the opportunity to get a COVID-19 antibody test.
Soldier restores a piece of Wyoming Guard history
June 22, 2020
Staff Sgt. Brian Parrish talks about restoring the M-7 Howitzer in front of the Regional Training Institute at Camp Guernsey, Wyo., June 8, 2020. Members of the Wyoming National Guard used to M-7 during the Korean War.
NCNG provides food, hope to schoolkids
June 22, 2020
Spc. Amber Cohen, assigned to the 449th Theatre Aviation Brigade, distributes meals prepared at Elizabethtown Middle School, to schoolkids in Bladen County, N.C., May 26, 2020. The NCNG is working with North Carolina Emergency Management, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and food banks to help support COVID-19 relief efforts.
Colorado National Guard assists with election cyber defense
June 22, 2020
Members of the Colorado National Guard's Task Force Cyber help Colorado Secretary of State Wayne W. Williams monitor network traffic and advise Chief Information Officer Trevor Timmons Nov. 6, 2018. The Guard will once again be helping to protect the elections against cyberattack in June and November 2020.
Multiple services come together under dual-status command
June 22, 2020
U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to Joint Task Force New York, are thanked by medical staff during a farewell ceremony at Elmhurst Medical Center in Brooklyn June 3, 2020.
West Virginia Guard completes 100 days of COVID-19 response
June 22, 2020
Col. Bill Annie, 167th Mission Support Group commander, is tested for COVID-19 by 167th Medical Group medical technician Tech. Sgt. Kristin Ganley, as Tech. Sgt. Taryn Burkhart, also a medical technician, waits to collect the sample at the 167th Airlift Wing, Martinsburg, West Virginia, June 11, 2020. Airmen returned to base for the first unit training assembly in two months, after training was canceled in April and May because of COVID-19 precautions.
Guard member helps family friend, pregnant COVID-19 patient
June 22, 2020
Pfc. Dal Sum, an infantryman with Company C, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry Regiment, is recognized by Col. Matthew Woodruff, commander of the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and Joint Task Force 37, May 8, 2020, at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. Sum answered the call when nurses needed a Burmese translator who speaks Zomi to communicate with a pregnant COVID-19 patient.
Fathers, brothers-in-law heading to Sergeants Major Academy
June 20, 2020
Brothers-in-law and Master Sgts. Joseph Santiago, left, and Andrew Barcinas, of the Guam National Guard, prepare for the Sergeants Major Academy in Merizo, Guam on May 15.