Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen participate in a collective training exercise while conducting search and extraction procedures May 23 2024, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. The team's search and rescue element practiced skills needed to help find and rescue survivors on a training site constructed by the VNG Soldiers and Airmen. Assigned to the Richmond-based 34th … [Read more...]

JULY 15, 2024 - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the signing of a state partnership agreement between the New York National Guard and Sweden as part of the State Partnership Program. Maj. Gen. Raymond Shields, the adjutant general of New York, and Marcos Soler, deputy secretary for public safety of New York, took part in the signing ceremony at One World Trade Center … [Read more...]

1st Lt. Jennifer Vanden Busch, the Joint Readiness Training Center Aid Station Rear operations officer, prepares a syringe June 13 during the 24-08 training rotation for the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 32nd “Red Arrow” Infantry Brigade Combat Team. She was among the medics, nurses and physicians from the Wisconsin National Guard and surrounding states who responded to a … [Read more...]

Maryland Army National Guard Sgt. Emmanuel Unaka, cyber threat intelligence analyst with Cyber Protection Team 169, listens to Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina Lt. Armin Kolašinac, a Security Operations Center member, as part of a blue team during the Adriatic Regional Security Cyber Cooperation exercise at the Slovenian Armed Forces Baron Andrej Čehovin barracks in … [Read more...]

Hawaii Air National Guard Airmen from the 154th Medical Group Detachment 1 and Urban Search and Rescue teams from across the U.S. receive a briefing June 5, 2024, at Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Training Center in Livermore, Calif. The briefing, conducted during the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Medical Specialist Course, covered critical strategies for effective disaster response … [Read more...]