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Troops of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade

Troops of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade

Troops of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade move through the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk Louisiana during the brigade’s war-fighting exercises there in August, 2001.... More

An element of the Army Reserve 377th Chemical Company from Richmond, Va gets his vitals after he was decontaminated by his battle buddies during a mock explosion. This is one of many activities in support of Operation Red Dragon, a joint civilian-military exercise to test coordinated response to a simulated nuclear and chemical bomb attack at Fort McCoy, WI, from 23 June 2005, to 24 June 2005.  (U.S. Army PHOTO by SPC Brandi Marshall)(Released)

An element of the Army Reserve 377th Chemical Company from Richmond, V...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: RED DRAGON Base: Fort Mccoy State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: USAR S... More

An element of the Army Reserve 377th Chemical Company from Richmond, Va gets his vitals after he was decontaminated by his battle buddies during a mock explosion. This is one of many activities in support of Operation Red Dragon, a joint civilian-military exercise to test coordinated response to a simulated nuclear and chemical bomb attack at Fort McCoy, WI, from 23 June 2005, to 24 June 2005.  (U.S. Army PHOTO by SPC Brandi Marshall)(Released)

An element of the Army Reserve 377th Chemical Company from Richmond, V...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: RED DRAGON Base: Fort Mccoy State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: USAR S... More

Sgt. Chris Coats and Pfc. William Westmeyer, 561st

Sgt. Chris Coats and Pfc. William Westmeyer, 561st

Sgt. Chris Coats and Pfc. William Westmeyer, 561st Military Police Company, attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, pull security outside an open-air market in subdistrict 9 of Kandahar City... More

Spc. Kristin Steakley, who coordinated the 230th Signal

Spc. Kristin Steakley, who coordinated the 230th Signal

Spc. Kristin Steakley, who coordinated the 230th Signal Company Fallen Soldier March at Fort Bliss, Texas, watches the march held back home in Lebanon Tennessee shortly after finishing her own. Soldiers in Afgh... More

Devil brigade paratroopers speak out about drunken driving

Devil brigade paratroopers speak out about drunken driving

Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, all assigned to companies noted for being free of drunken driving incidents in the fiscal year, said they have many reasons for not drinki... More

Racing the sun, US Army Photo

Racing the sun, US Army Photo

U.S. Army soldiers run up Jackson Avenue on Fort Myer, Va., as the sun rises above the District of Columbia skyline, Oct. 4, 2013. (DOD photo by Army Staff Sgt. Sean K. Harp)

Asking the hard questions

Asking the hard questions

Ensuring a Soldier’s overall well-being sometimes means leaders and battle buddies must go the extra mile and even dive into sensitive subjects headfirst if they sense something may be wrong. Changes in behavio... More

Shared journey: trio inseperable since 8th grade

Shared journey: trio inseperable since 8th grade

Pfc. Derek Jones, Pvt. Joshua Anderson and Pfc. DeAndre Kinlaw graduated from Food Service Specialist Course Sept. 10 as members of Tango Company, 266th Quartermaster Battalion. The 19-year-old Jacksonville na... More

Brothers in Arms - Two soldiers standing in front of a tank

Brothers in Arms - Two soldiers standing in front of a tank

Staff Sgt. Joshua Hough and Staff Sgt. Jacob Hough are twins assigned to Battery B, 2d Battalion, 114th Field Artillery Regiment. They are preparing to deploy with the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team as canno... More

Cadet Dominic Presley, from the University of Central

Cadet Dominic Presley, from the University of Central

Cadet Dominic Presley, from the University of Central Florida, washes the CS gas off his face after completing the confidence chamber during Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) training July 1... More

Cadet Christian Yaques, from Florida International

Cadet Christian Yaques, from Florida International

Cadet Christian Yaques, from Florida International University, does the one-rope commando crawl to complete the Rudder's Ropes Course pretraining on July 15 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The confidence course helps C... More

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade sips water from his camelbak while speaking with civilian role players at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, Louisiana d... More

Soldiers, wounded warriors, and command and staff members

Soldiers, wounded warriors, and command and staff members

Soldiers, wounded warriors, and command and staff members assigned to Rear Detachment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, talk Colorado Springs community members about services and programs availab... More

Sgt. 1st Class Angela Haslip-Farris (right) and Command

Sgt. 1st Class Angela Haslip-Farris (right) and Command

Sgt. 1st Class Angela Haslip-Farris (right) and Command Sgt. Maj. Winsome Laos following the 79th Sustainment Support Command retirement ceremony April 6 at Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos, Calif.

Georgia Army National Guardsman Sgt. Pierce T. Franklin,

Georgia Army National Guardsman Sgt. Pierce T. Franklin,

Georgia Army National Guardsman Sgt. Pierce T. Franklin, an infantryman assigned to the Cumming-based Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, assists Spc. Ricktavious Anderson, an infantryman wit... More

A sweat-soaked Soldier of the New York Army National

A sweat-soaked Soldier of the New York Army National

A sweat-soaked Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade moves through the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, Louisiana during the brigade’s war-fighting exercises ther... More

Spc. Caleb Pedersen, a heavy equipment operator with

Spc. Caleb Pedersen, a heavy equipment operator with

Spc. Caleb Pedersen, a heavy equipment operator with 94th Engineer Battalion, 103rd Engineer Company, 3rd Platoon, out of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., operates a backhoe loader behind a hydraulic excavator operated ... More

Staff Sgt. Randy DeMoss, Sgt. Paul Podhorn, Staff Sgt.

Staff Sgt. Randy DeMoss, Sgt. Paul Podhorn, Staff Sgt.

Staff Sgt. Randy DeMoss, Sgt. Paul Podhorn, Staff Sgt. Andrew Valadez and Sgt. Corey Dwyer, all cavalry scouts with the 1st Cav. Div., stand together after the Warrior 5K Walk, Run or Roll fundraiser at Harker ... More

The 82nd Airborne Division field artillery paratroopers

The 82nd Airborne Division field artillery paratroopers

The 82nd Airborne Division field artillery paratroopers finish up 'Best of the Best' with the final event the 20k ruck march. Energy was abundant as the Paratroopers worked hard all week to get to this point.

U.S. Army Pfc. Robert Nelson, left, assigned to 687th

U.S. Army Pfc. Robert Nelson, left, assigned to 687th

U.S. Army Pfc. Robert Nelson, left, assigned to 687th Rapid Port Opening Element, conducts a 12-mile ruck march during the 2017 Army Materiel Command's Best Warrior Competition July 17, 2017, at Camp Atterbury,... More

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord Wa., conduct security operations during Decisive Action Rotat... More

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade scans for opposing forces (OPFOR) at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk Louisiana during the brigade’s war-fighting exerc... More

U.S. Army Spc. Thomas Jones of Crosby, Texas and U.S.

U.S. Army Spc. Thomas Jones of Crosby, Texas and U.S.

U.S. Army Spc. Thomas Jones of Crosby, Texas and U.S. Army Pfc. Cody Short of Garden City, Mich., members of Task Force 2-28, 172nd Infantry Brigade pull watch over a valley from a courtyard in the small villag... More

Hunkered down behind his ruck sack, a Soldier of the

Hunkered down behind his ruck sack, a Soldier of the

Hunkered down behind his ruck sack, a Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade guards his sector at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, Louisiana during the brigade... More

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

A Soldier of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade uses a radio at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk Louisiana during the brigade’s war-fighting exercises there in August,... More

U.S. Army scouts from Headquarters and Headquarters

U.S. Army scouts from Headquarters and Headquarters

U.S. Army scouts from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Spartan, pile into a small room to rest for a few hours after walking through the night, in minus ... More

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord Wa., conduct security operations during Decisive Action Rotat... More

Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th

Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade refill their canteens and camelbaks at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk Louisiana during the brigade’s war-fighting exer... More

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 14th Calvary Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord Wa., scans for enemy targets with a set of binoculars during ... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Benjamin Herrmann, 3670th Maintenance

U.S. Army Sgt. Benjamin Herrmann, 3670th Maintenance

U.S. Army Sgt. Benjamin Herrmann, 3670th Maintenance Company, and Sgt. 1st. Class Jeremy Carver, Bravo Company, Recruiting and Retention Battalion, Oregon Army National Guard, discuss their next event during th... More

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers sit to eat Meal, Ready-to-Eat

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers sit to eat Meal, Ready-to-Eat

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers sit to eat Meal, Ready-to-Eat together after completing a multi-event simulation lane during the 2020 U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Sept. 6. Ove... More