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113th ASOS TACP Airmen control night skies in exercise
August 10, 2020
Tactical air control party Airmen assigned to the 113th Air Support Operations Squadron of the 181st Intelligence Wing from the Indiana Air National Guard observe an aircraft during night close air support training at Atterbury Range at the Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind., Aug. 4, 2020. TACPs from the 113th ASOS provide joint terminal attack controller capabilities to air assets to execute military ground commanders’ intent.
Kansas Guard transports COVID-19 test samples across state
August 10, 2020
Kansas Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Raymond Owes and Spc. Adrian Turner, both with the 997th Brigade Support Battalion, taking a box of COVID-19 test samples to their vehicle in Troy, Kansas, July 27, 2020. Kansas National Guard teams have been transporting COVID-19 samples from across the state to the state health department lab since March.
Annual Northern Lightning exercise returns to Volk Field
August 10, 2020
A variety of the world’s most advanced aircraft have assembled at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center in Wisconsin for the joint accredited exercise Northern Lightning 2 exercise Aug. 10-21.
Pennsylvania Guard aquatic rescue team saves two motorists
August 7, 2020
Pennsylvania National Guard Staff Sgt. Noah McElory looks out the window of the UH-60 Black Hawk containing the Pennsylvania Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team as it takes off from Muir Army Airfield, Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., Aug. 4, 2020. The team saved two motorists from rising flood waters during Tropical Storm Isaias.
NCNG helps Hurricane Isaias first responders on Oak Island
August 7, 2020
Pvt. Scott Green, a Soldier assigned to the 878th Engineer Vertical Construction Company, 105th Engineer Battalion, helps transport first responders over washed-out roads after Hurricane Isaias made landfall on Oak Island, North Carolina, Aug. 5, 2020.
Alaska Air Guard rescues 2 hikers at Mount Watchman
August 7, 2020
An Alaska National Guard 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk conducts hoist training June 5, 2018, at Eklutna Glacier.
Indiana National Guard Soldier secures cyber success
August 7, 2020
Indiana National Guard Soldiers graduate from the Ivy Tech Community College Cyber Academy Aug. 2, 2019. Front Row: Sgt. Stephen Carlile, 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team; Spc. James Gill, 2/150 Field Artillery; Spc. Sophia Balderas, 76th Brigade Engineer Battalion; Spc. Caleb Murphy, 151 Heavy Infantry, D Co. Back Row: Spc. Nathaniel Musick, 219th Engineering Brigade; Cpl. Luis Diaz-Sanchez, 1/152 Cav.
CONG’s 140th Wing leads way with agile combat employment
August 7, 2020
This Aircraft Combat Employment wartime scenario is designed to train maintenance, fuels and security forces to deploy with equipment to a simulated remote airstrip to rearm F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, and then quickly depart. The ACE exercise, supported by a C-130-J unit from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., is designed to increase operational wartime readiness.
NY National Guard distributes over 52 million meals in New York City
August 6, 2020
Sgt. Thalia Santos from Yonkers, N.Y., left, and Spc. Kirt Joseph from Brentwood, N.Y., members of the New York Army National Guard, load boxed, packaged food, into a vehicle at a food distribution site in the Bronx, New York Aug. 5, 2020.
NCNG engineers respond to Hurricane Isaias
August 6, 2020
North Carolina National Guard Spc. Adam Macterrnan, a Soldier assigned to the 882nd Engineer Company, 105th Engineer Battalion, helps a resident find his dogs following a tornado spawned by Hurricane Isaias in Windsor, North Carolina, Aug. 4, 2020.
Hard work pays off for 167th Airlift Wing Airman
August 6, 2020
Master Sgt. Jesseca Shipe, a maintenance support supply technician for the 167th Logistics Readiness Squadron, sews cloth face coverings in support of the West Virginia National Guard's COVID-19 response at the 167th Airlift Wing, April 20, 2020. Shipe is the 167th AW Airman Spotlight for August 2020.
California National Guard's cyber team adjusts to COVID-19
August 6, 2020
U.S. Army Maj. Mikael Magnuson, commander of Cyber Protection Team 171, discusses drill details with personnel in his unit, June 25, 2020. Due to COVID-19 and social distancing, Magnuson conducted the unit's first virtual inactive duty training from his home in Rocklin, California.
NY National Guard trains to be 'eye in sky' for 27th Brigade
August 6, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to Delta Company, 152nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, launch a RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle at Fort Drum, New York, July 28, 2020. Equipped with advanced sensors, the Shadow is used to relay communications, conduct surveillance and target acquisition.
Wisconsin National Guard to support Aug. 11 election
August 6, 2020
Wisconsin National Guard Sgt. Monica Miggins, with the 1158th Transportation Company out of Beloit, Wis., sanitizes a voter's hands before he enters a polling place in Fitchburg, Wis., April 7, 2020. Guard members will once again serve as poll workers during the state's Aug. 11 primary election.
Whitehead named senior enlisted advisor to CNGB
August 5, 2020
Chief Master Sgt. Tony L. Whitehead was named senior enlisted advisor for the National Guard Bureau by Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, Aug. 3, 2020.
Michigan Guard conducts COVID-19 testing in Upper Peninsula
August 5, 2020
The Michigan National Guard Task Force 182 was all over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula July 25, 2020, testing for the coronavirus.
151st Infantry Regiment adapts training to COVID-19 pandemic
August 5, 2020
During an integrated live-fire, Indiana National Guard Soldiers with the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s 151st Infantry Regiment completed mortar table five, a practice qualification exercise, at Camp Atterbury, Edinburgh, Indiana, July 21, 2020.
Northern Lightning: Vermont Guard Airmen train in Wisconsin
August 5, 2020
Airmen assigned to the 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont Air National Guard, deploy to Volk Field, Wisconsin, for Operation Northern Lightning, Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vt., Aug. 3, 2020. A C-130 assigned to the 146th Airlift Wing, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, flew the Green Mountain Boys to partake in a two-week exercise where they will train on combat operations involving the F-35A Lightning II.
KC-135 crew finds missing mariners on Pacific island
August 5, 2020
National Guard members from the 203rd Air Refueling Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, and the 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, locate three missing mariners on Pikelot Island during a search and rescue mission in the Federated States of Micronesia southwest of Guam, Aug. 2, 2020. The mariners had departed Puluwat Atoll July 29 aboard a 23-foot white and blue skiff, headed approximately 21 nautical miles to Pulap, Chuuk.
174th MXG hot-pit maintenance key to Northern Strike 20
August 4, 2020
An A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 107th Fighter Squadron, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., taxis to a hot-pit maintenance area set up by the 174th Maintenance Group Detachment 1 maintenance team during Northern Strike 20 in Alpena, Mich., July 27, 2020. The 174th MXG Det. 1 is a New York Air National Guard unit located in Ft. Drum, New York. The unit has provided maintenance support to Northern Strike since 2012. Northern Strike is the National Guard Bureau’s largest joint, multi-component exercise and takes place at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center in Northern Michigan.