Family Hug
March 29th, 2012 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
The sweet embrace of loved-ones awaited the more than 170 members of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team that returned to Oklahoma, March 29, 2012, after spending more than eight months in Afghanistan. (Maj. Geoff Legler/Army)
Snow Patrol
March 4th, 2012 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Members of the Minnesota National Guard along with Norwegian instructors are seen ski marching to their next training location. Minnesota National Guard personnel were in Norway from February 9, 2012 to February 23, 2012 participating in the 39th Annual United States/Norwegian Troop Reciprocal Exchange. (National Guard photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Ralph J. Kapustka)
Equine Therapy
February 7th, 2012 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Robert MacTamhais, a National Guard veteran who was a medic in Iraq in 2008, gives a goodbye hug to Mel after his equine assisted therapy session, at Rocky Top Therapy Center, in Keller, Texas. The center recently received a grant for its new Horses for Heroes program to work with veterans and their families to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological injuries and adjustment issues. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Lara Solt)
Home for Thanksgiving
November 24th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Valerie McElwaney, 51, McDonough, hugs her son, Spc. Miles Crook, 22, of Kennesaw, Ga., as members of the Georgia Army National Guard Dragon Masters (1-171st Aviation Regiment) arrive home from a yearlong duty in Iraq just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday at the Clay National Guard Center at Dobbins Air Base Nov. 23. It was Crook’s first deployment. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton)
Wisconsin Guard Comes Home
November 23rd, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Sgt. Aaron Grudich of Oakfield walks back to the car with his family after returning back from Iraq at the West Bend Armory on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in West Bend, Wis. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 135th General Aviation Support Battalion returned home from Iraq. After 51 weeks, the last Wisconsin National Guard Unit returned home. (AP Photo/West Bend Daily News, John Ehlke)
Surprise Homecoming
September 28th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Alabama National Guard Master Sgt. Catina Hyatt, surprises her daughter, Erykah Hyatt, during the Constitution Day Parade at Dannelly Elementary School in Montgomery, Ala on Monday Sept. 26, 2011. The school postponed the parade till Monday so that Hyatt could surprise her daughter on Erykah’s birthday. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh)
Rescue in Pennsylvania
September 9th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Sgt. Alex Pell-Kline with the West Pittston Army National Guard rescues Tiffany Horner from her residence on Luzerne Avenue in West Pittston, Pa., from the raging Susquehanna River on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/The Citizens’ Voice, Ralph Francello)
Hurricane Damage Assessment
September 1st, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Sgt. Thomas Stanley, left, Sgt. Joshua Roman and Staff Sgt. Jesse Blomgren, all engineers from the Vermont National Guard’s 131st Engineering Company, assess the repair work to be done on a collapsed stretch of East Dover Road in Wilmington, Vt., after Hurricane Irene made its way through Vermont 8/31/2011. (Rob Curtis/Staff)
Bailing Out After Irene
August 28th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Spc. Caleb Lowery with the Army National Guard Unit 1st C.A.B., 120th Infantry Regiment, Bravo Co., helps clean out a homeowners hot tub after if flooded in the wake of Hurricane Irene in the Kennels Beach section of Arapahoe, Pamlico County, N.C. on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chris Seward)
Waiting for Irene
August 27th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Members of the Maryland National Guard watch waves crash onto a beach from their Humvee while on patrol in Ocean City, Md., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)