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Below are links to this week's stories about all the great work being done by you and your fellow National Guard members – both here at home and overseas.
Maybe your state and your unit are featured in this week's lineup!
Please visit our Website at http://www.nationalguard.mil and our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/TheNationalGuard for these and many other stories, photos and videos.
COL Eric D. Maxon
Director, NGB-Public Affairs
HAGEL EMPHASIZES DEPARTMENT'S RESOLVE IN SUICIDE PREVENTION
WASHINGTON (9/3/13) - As the nation observes Suicide Prevention Month, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued a message to the men and women of the Defense Department today, emphasizing the department's collective resolve in its efforts to prevent military suicides.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2013/09/090313-Hagel.aspx
FOREST SERVICE ENDS AIR NATIONAL GUARD FIREFIGHTING ACTIVATION FOR NOW
BOISE, Idaho (9/5/13) - The U.S. Forest Service, through the National Interagency Fire Center here, has decided to end current military C-130 Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System operations as of the end of the day today.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2013/09/090513-Forest.aspx
DELAWARE NATIONAL GUARD SENIOR LEADERS VISIT REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (9/4/13) - Senior leaders from the Delaware National Guard visited the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Delaware’s state partner. The visit was a goodwill mission, building and growing the existing partnership. The trip included visits to the Embassy and the various training bases of the Defence Forces.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2013/09/090413-Delaware.aspx
FINANCES AFFECT SERVICE MEMBERS' READINESS, OFFICIAL SAYS
WASHINGTON (9/5/13) - Financial readiness in service members' lives has a direct effect on mission readiness, the director of the Defense Department's office of family policy, children and youth said in a recent interview.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2013/09/090513-Finances.aspx
CALIFORNIA AIR GUARD MEMBERS HELP RE-DO LATVIAN HIGH SCHOOL
ALUKSNE, Latvia (9/6/13) - Forty members of the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing Civil Engineering Squadron (CES) deployed to Latvia in August to refurbish a high school in the town of Aluksne about 13 miles from Latvia's border with Russia.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2013/09/090613-California.aspx
ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN SOLDIERS VOLUNTEER TO DIG FOR INFANT'S REMAINS
ZION, Ill. (9/4/13) - The Army values were on display Aug. 25 when Citizen-Soldiers from the Wisconsin and Illinois National Guard volunteered their time to search for the remains of a murdered five-month-old child in a landfill here.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2013/09/090413-Illinois.aspx
HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD AIR DEFENSE EXPERTS SHARE WITH PHILIPPINE AIR FORCE PARTNERS
MANILA, Philippines (9/4/13) - Air defense experts from the Hawaii Air National Guard recently traveled to Col. Jesus Villamor Air Base, Pasay City, Philippines, to conduct an Air Defense, Command and Control Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) with Philippine air force (PAF) partners.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2013/09/090413-Hawaii.aspx
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