Story by Staff Sgt. Steven Tucker | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 04.02.2020
Tractor-trailers arrived at Western Connecticut State University on April 1, 2020, and within hours over 200 beds had been set up by Soldiers and Airmen from the Connecticut National Guard, transforming the O’Neill Center, home of WCSU’s basketball and volleyball teams, into a field hospital for potential patient use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sgt. Luk Silk, 23, a......
Story by Lori Egan | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 06.25.2019
FORT BENNING, Ga. – Fifteen teams of military working dogs and their handlers took part in the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s first military working dog predeployment training here June 17 through 21, 2019....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Tamara Dabney | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 06.05.2019
Husband and wife, Jacob and Brooke Cournoyer smiled as they drew large, red, white and blue block letters on a poster board. The letters read “Welcome Home.”...
Story by Sgt. Christopher Lindborg | U.S. Army Central | 02.15.2019
191 service members serving in U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility earned the right to wear the Air Assault Badge on Feb. 15, 2019. Air Assault’s Class 301-19 began with 240 students on day zero of the 10 day school. Service Members pre-qualified to have the rare opportunity of attending the school held in theater....
Story by Maj. MICHAEL PETERSEN | Connecticut National Guard Public Affairs Office | 01.02.2019
Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Simon, a Public Affairs NCO assigned to the Connecticut National Guard's Joint Force Headquarters, earned his teaching certification after years of "life" getting in the way....
Story by Sgt. Christopher Hernandez | Mobilization and Deployment, DPTMS Fort Bliss | 12.20.2018
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. – Roaring down a concrete road not far from the base of the Organ Mountains, two M1142 Tactical Fire Fighting Trucks hastily position themselves away from the downed helicopter set ablaze. The roof turrets from each truck discharge streams of pressurized water onto the flames, and firefighters adorned in structural bunker gear and self-contained breathing......
Story by Adam Holguin | Mobilization and Deployment, DPTMS Fort Bliss | 01.15.2016
The Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion Forward, 42nd Infantry Division, New York Army National Guard and the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 192nd Military Police Battalion, Connecticut Army National Guard, returned stateside Jan. 15....
Story by Sgt. David Marquis | KFOR Regional Command East | 09.21.2015
Armenian soldiers celebrated the Republic of Armenia’s independence day with a ceremony and meal alongside their Kosovo Force allies assigned to Multinational Battle Group-East, Sept. 21, 2015, on Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo....
