Sgt. Chris Boni, crew chief from the 1-140th Aviation Battalion (Air Assault) out of Los Alamitos Joint Training Base (JFTB), releases water from over head while battling the Rim Fire in Kern County. The UH-60 Crew doused the Rim fire with a total of 30,111 gallons the past three days while battling the Jawbone complex wildfires in support of Bureau of Land Management, Kern County fire, and CAL FIRE.(Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Julie Avey)
At right, Spc. Kevin Valencia dodges a baton strike by Staff Sgt. Brooke Parras during civil disturbance training July 16 at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. The Soldiers are members of the 40th Military Police Company, 185th Military Police Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade, California Army National Guard. The 185th sponsored the training. (Army National Guard photo/Spc. Eddie Siguenza)
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California Army and Air National Guard helicopter pilots from the 1st and 3rd Battalion of the 140th Aviation Battalion (Air Assault), based out of Los Alamitos, Stockton and Mather, and the 129th Rescue Wing, out of Mountain View, fly their UH-60 Black Hawks and HH-60 Pave Hawks, Aug. 29, 2013, to the dip site at the Cherry Lake dam just west of Yosemite National Park to various bucket drop sites nearby. The aircraft rotated from dropping to dunking, sometimes with other civilian choppers and could drop as many as 20 buckets before having to refuel. The pilots move in, directed by Cal Fire managers, who spot U.S. Forest Service fire fighters on the ground or follow other guidance on where best to lay the line of water. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Paul Wade/Released)
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A member of the 40th Military Police Company, based in Los Alamitos, Calif., comforts and guides a simulated improvised nuclear blast victim towards a decontamination containment area as part of their role to secure a notional collapsed building destroyed in the explosion during the 2011 Arizona Statewide/Vigilant Guard Exercise held Nov. 3-5, 2011. California National Guard participated side by side with National Guard members from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. (Army National Guard photo/Sgt. Salli Curchin)
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Pvt. Rosa Ruiz of the 149th Chemical Company, 579th Engineer Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade, California Army National Guard, scans a civilian for gamma radiation Nov. 4 during the 2011 Arizona Statewide Vigilant Guard Exercise in Phoenix. The exercise is designed to enhance the California National Guard’s disaster response capabilities to devastating state emergencies such as an improvised nuclear device detonation. Vigilant Guard is preparing the 49th Military Police Brigade to assume the role as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region IX military disaster coordinator, or Homeland Response Force asset. (Army National Guard photo/Spc. Eddie Siguenza)
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