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National Guard Responds to Weather Disasters
About 3,000 National Guard members were responding to weather-related domestic disasters in 11 states on Friday (April 29), the majority in tornado-ravaged Alabama, while hundreds still tackled rising waters in North Dakota, epicenter of flooding challenging seven states. In Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi, tornadoes killed and injured people and destroyed property; in Texas, drought fueled wildland fires; in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota and Tennessee, swollen rivers either escaped their banks or threatened to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Disasters, Humanitarian Assistance, Military, Tornado Outbreak April 2011
Air Guard Engineers Help Haitians
The U.S. military response to the January earthquake in Haiti was almost immediate. Within hours, equipment, supplies and personnel began to arrive in Haiti to assist those affected by the earthquake and its aftershocks. Many Air National Guard units and personnel were among the first to respond to the disaster. For some, it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Air Force Staff Sgt. Oscar Trevino of the 190th Civil Engineering Squadron … Read entire article »
Our Best: Comforting the Wounded Edition
Capt. Lisa Causey cares for a litter patient on board a C-130 Hercules April 2 in Southwest Asia. She and four other medics and the C-130 aircrew made a 15-hour flight to four cities in Iraq and one air base in the Middle East. They airlifted 19 patients, 16 of whom were ambulatory, to the Persian Gulf, where most of the patients were transferred to a C-17 Globemaster III headed for Germany. Captain Causey is … Read entire article »
Filed under: Military, Our Best: Military Women
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