Air Guard focuses on equipment for domestic operations

Air Force Maj. Gen. Garry Dean, commander of 1st Air Force and U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, addressed nearly 450 Guardmembers during the Air Guard's Domestic Operations Equipment Requirements conference in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 2, 2010.

Wyatt joins joint chiefs on military children panel

Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, director of the Air National Guard, shares how his granddaughter coped with his son's combat deployments. Wyatt spoke July 26 with other senior military and elected officials to discuss military deployments, programs and policies that affect the children of active duty, Guard and Reserve servicemembers at the Military Child Education Coalition held in National Harbor, Md.

Texas Air Guard teaches a 'Total Force' lesson

Active duty Air Force security forces Airmen are debriefed after a convoy live fire exercise by an instructor from the Texas Air Guard's Desert Defender Regional Training Center area security operations course at the McGregor Range outside El Paso, Texas, June 30, 2010.

Air Force honors top youths at Pentagon

Dakota Johnson, left, shakes hands with Air Force Lt. Gen. Richard Newton, deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel at U.S. Air Force Headquarters, while being recognized as the Air National Guard's Youth of the Year as part of the 2010 Air Force Youth of the Year awards program during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Thursday, June 24, 2010. The program, in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club, recognizes young people from each Air Force major command who have taken on leadership roles in their community while achieving academic and other success. Johnson is the son of Air Force Capt. Stephanie Johnson and Air Force 2nd Lt. Eric Johnson, both from the North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Medical Group.

Air Guard pauses to reflect on suicide, high-risk behavior

Col. John Slocum, the Air National Guard's safety director, discusses high-risk behavior, suicides and Wingman concepts with Airmen from the Air Guard Readiness Center at the base theatre on Joint Base Andrews, Md., during an Air Force-wide Wingman Stand-down June 9, 2010.

Air Guard recognizes outstanding honor guards

Master Sgt. Velia Mireles, the Air National Guard 2010 Honor Guard Member of the Year, left, and Master Sgt. Brian Mays, the Air Guard Honor Guard Program Manager of the Year, were honored during an awards banquet at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2010.

McKeague: Diversity strengthens U.S. military

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Kelly McKeague, assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Guard Matters, addresses those in attendance at the 2010 Forum on Asian Pacific American Council, at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., Monday, May 3, 2010.(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy)(Released)

Air National Gaurd Supports Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution, Jersey City, N.J.

Major Julie Carpenter, Medical (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or Explosive) Enhanced Response Force, conducts a preliminary health assessment on a firefighter from the Jersey City Hazmat Team, Jersey City Fire Department, N.J., before he conducts field operations and recovery during the Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution on May 11, 2010 at the U.S. Army Reserve Center/Jersey City Police Facility in Jersey City, N.J. The RMFMTE focuses on fatality management techniques and procedures and assists in the development of local and regionalized response plans for response to a mass fatality event resulting from terrorist attacks or natural disasters. The week long joint training effort include the Air National Guard, Department of Homeland Security, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, along with numerous medical examiners/coroners, fire departments, law enforcement, and other federal and local agencies from the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

Air National Gaurd Supports Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution, Jersey City, N.J.

Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Leah Marino, Survey Team Chief, New York Joint Forces Headquarters Army/Air National Guard 24th Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team, documents a simulated contaminated decedent during the Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution on May 11, 2010 at the U.S. Army Reserve Center/Jersey City Police Facility in Jersey City, N.J. The RMFMTE focuses on fatality management techniques and procedures and assists in the development of local and regionalized response plans for response to a mass fatality event resulting from terrorist attacks or natural disasters. The week long joint training effort include the Air National Guard, Department of Homeland Security, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, along with numerous medical examiners/coroners, fire departments, law enforcement, and other federal and local agencies from the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

Air National Gaurd Supports Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution, Jersey City, N.J.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Ammons, 132nd Force Support Squadron, Des Moines, Iowa, helps erect a Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter M-Series Tent during the Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution on May 10, 2010 at the U.S. Army Reserve Center/Jersey City Police Facility in Jersey City, N.J. The RMFMTE focuses on fatality management techniques and procedures and assists in the development of local and regionalized response plans for response to a mass fatality event resulting from terrorist attacks or natural disasters. The week long joint training effort include the Air National Guard, Department of Homeland Security, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, along with numerous medical examiners/coroners, fire departments, law enforcement, and other federal and local agencies from the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

Air National Gaurd Supports Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution, Jersey City, N.J.

Jerry Vega, Jersey City Hazmat Team, Jersey City Fire Department, N.J., assists Senior Airman Justin Joyner, 186th Force Support Squadron, Meridian, Miss., prepare for field operations and recovery during the Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution on May 11, 2010 at the U.S. Army Reserve Center/Jersey City Police Facility in Jersey City, N.J. The RMFMTE focuses on fatality management techniques and procedures and assists in the development of local and regionalized response plans for response to a mass fatality event resulting from terrorist attacks or natural disasters. The week long joint training effort include the Air National Guard, Department of Homeland Security, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, along with numerous medical examiners/coroners, fire departments, law enforcement, and other federal and local agencies from the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

Air National Gaurd Supports Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution, Jersey City, N.J.

Air National Guard Capt. Ronald McCarthy, Survey Team Leader, New York Joint Forces Headquarters Army/Air National Guard 24th Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team, takes simulated contamination detection readings off of a simulated contaminated decedent during the Regional Mass Fatality Management Training Evolution on May 11, 2010 at the U.S. Army Reserve Center/Jersey City Police Facility in Jersey City, N.J. The RMFMTE focuses on fatality management techniques and procedures and assists in the development of local and regionalized response plans for response to a mass fatality event resulting from terrorist attacks or natural disasters. The week long joint training effort include the Air National Guard, Department of Homeland Security, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, along with numerous medical examiners/coroners, fire departments, law enforcement, and other federal and local agencies from the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

Senior Airman Terry Harris, 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., operates a John Deere 650J Bulldozer in preparation for excavation work at St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 18, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program linking military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

Staff Sgt. Jack Peed, 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., installs an external power box at St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 18, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program linking military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

Airman First Class Avian Jones and Airman First Class Kyra George, both from the 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., dig a trench for a power conduit at St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 18, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program linking military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

Airman First Class Avian Jones, 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., digs a trench for a power conduit at St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 18, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program linking military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

Airman First Class Matthew McMurray, 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., levels a flood control culvert with a T190 Bobcat at St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 17, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program linking military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

Airman First Class Matthew McMurray, 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., levels a flood control culvert with a T190 Bobcat at St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 17, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program linking military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

TSgt Brian Larose, 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach, Va., levels a flood control culvert with a T190 Bobcat at St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 17, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program linking military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Bynum/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Program

Members of the 203rd Red Horse Squadron, Virginia Beach Va., re-shingle a maintenance building at St. Michaels Association for Special Education school in Window Rock, Ariz., on May 16, 2010. The Red Horse team along with the 240th Civil Engineering Flight, 140th Wing, Aurora, Colo., are at St. Michaels preparing to break ground on new facilities across the campus. The effort to upgrade the complex for special needs children and adults is part of the Innovative Readiness Training program, a civil-military affairs program that links military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. Throughout the next five years several Civil Engineering teams across the Air National Guard will rotate every two weeks to help this under-privileged school. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicole Manzanares /RELEASED)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Project

A ?dirt boy? is leveling out the terrain of the land in order for the construction of the new nursing station at the St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 16, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program that links military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Paula Aragon/Released)

St. Michaels Association for Special Education Innovative Readiness Training Project

A member of the Air National Guard Civil Engineering team repairs the roof of a domed building at the St. Michaels Association for Special Education campus in Window Rock, Ariz. on May 16, 2010. Work is being conducted at the SMASE campus as part of the Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military affairs program that links military units with civilian communities for humanitarian projects. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Paula Aragon/Released)

Air Guard rescue unit practices skills during exercise

Members of the 212th Rescue Squadron ready their equipment prior to responding to an urban search and rescue mission as part of the training exercise Vigilant Guard in Anchorage, Alaska, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Vigilant Guard is an annual, disaster-based training scenario that tests the coordination of National Guard units with local, state, regional, and national disaster preparedness organizations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy)(Released)

Alaska hosts Vigilant Guard exercise this week

A member of the 103rd Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass Destruction), left, decontaminates a local first responder after responding to a simulated chemical spill as part of the training scenario of exercise Vigilant Guard in Anchorage, Alaska, Monday, April 26, 2010. Vigilant Guard is an annual, disaster-based training scenario that tests the coordination of National Guard units with local, state, regional, and national disaster preparedness organizations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy)(Released)