Colorado National Guard helicopter and helibase support crews aided response efforts to the Spring Creek Fire in the southern Colorado counties of Huerfano and Costilla in early July.
Equipped with aerial water buckets,...
Continue ReadingThe California Army National Guard’s 132nd Multirole Bridge Company played a crucial role in the containment of a wildfire in northern California this summer.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL...
Continue ReadingHow would Wisconsin fare if its power grid was under attack, resulting in a long-term mass power outage? To answer that question, public safety agencies from across the State, along with the Wisconsin National Guard,...
Continue ReadingOnce a year, members of the New York National Guard’s 24th Civil Support Team (CST) jump out of a helicopter and into the waters of Gravesend Bay off the southern tip of Long Island.
... Continue ReadingWhile a Kentucky Derby-record rainfall of nearly three inches doused the track, more than 157,000 spectators filled Churchill Downs for the nation’s biggest horse race May 5 in Louisville. Soldiers of the Kentucky Army National...
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