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Members of the 148th Fighter, Minnesota Air National Guard, await departure in a C-17 Globemaster prior to departing to Hickam AFB, Hawaii on the morning of Nov. 9, 2007, at the Air National Guard Base located in Duluth, Minn.
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Chief Warrant Officer 4 Anne Sprute and former National Guard Bureau Counter-Drug Chief Col. Earl Bell visit students at the Mother Seton School in Emmitsburg, Md. in April 2005.
Air Guard Senior Master Sgt. Bret Patrick, detection systems specialist, speaks to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent while on duty at the Air and Marine Operations Center at March Air Reserve Base, Calif. Patrick monitors the radars that track aircraft flying into the United States, specifically watching out for potential drug smugglers. (National Guard Bureau photo by Air Guard Staff Sgt. Cheryl Hackley).
John P. Walters (center), director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, pauses while being escorted on a marijuana eradication mission by Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko (left) and the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force commander, Col. Timothy Swann.
The Massachusetts National Guard natural resource program conducts a prescribed burn at Camp Edwards to maintain the grasslands at the base. Camp Edwards is home to three state listed endangered species of migratory birds. (Photo by Joel Carlson, Massachusetts National Guard)
Young American Day - Capt. William Kopp shows the instruments of an F-15 Eagle to a young visitor during Young American Day on Aug. 12 at the Oregon Air National Guard Base in Portland. Captain Kopp is with the 142nd Fighter Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman John Hughel Jr.)
A 3rd Battalion, 142nd Aviation ground crew Soldier uses hand signals to the crew of the UH-60 Blackhawk air crew to complete the drop-off of the third abandoned vehicle during a GuardHELP community project in the Edgewood Oak Brush Plains Preserve near Ronkonkoma, Long Island.
The Tethered Aerostat Radar System is a low-level surveillance system that uses aerostats as radar platforms. An aerostat is a lighter-than-air, inflatable, aerodynamic balloon filled with helium and air. The primary mission is to provide low-level radar surveillance along the southwest border of the United States and Mexico, the Straits of Florida and the Caribbean in support of federal agencies involved in the nation's drug interdiction program. (File photo).
A Hawaii County police officer (left) and an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (right) confer with the pilot of a Hawaii Army National Guard OH-58 Kiowa before a joint marijuana-eradication mission on the Big Island of Hawaii. April 1, 2006 (by Steve Harding)