KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army General Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of International Security Assistance Forces, disembarks a Black Hawk with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment, Delaware National Guard, Task Force Knighthawk, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Falcon, to greet Afghan National Army commander during his visit to Korengal outpost as part of Operation Mountain Decent II, April 8. (Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Victor Egorov, 55th Combat Camera)
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A National Guard Soldier in the Army Air Assault School at Camp Gruber, Okla, rappels from a UH-60 helicopter. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt.1st Class Kendall James, Oklahoma National Guard)
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The personal security detachment for the Wisconsin National Guard’s 724th Engineer battalion rolls out on a convoy training mission at Fort McCoy, April 7. The High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles, or HMMWVs, used in training at Ft. McCoy, have been replaced on convoy missions in Iraq and Afghanistan with Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles like the “Bus” variant to the left. The 724th is preparing for its second deployment to Iraq in seven years. (112th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Jopek)
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Georgia Air National Guard joint terminal attack controllers assigned to 1st Squadron, 108th Cavalry Regiment, Task Force Mountain Warrior set up operational communications during an aerial assault mission at an Afghan outpost near an Afghanistan/Pakistan mountain border in Nazyan. The joint mission was a show of unity for the Troops of Task Force Rough Rider and the Afghan border police 6th Kandak protecting the Safid Kho Mountain Ranges. (Photo by Sgt. Tracy J. Smith)
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Guardmembers and active duty servicemembers of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Kapisa engage targets on the “Stress Fire” range at the National Guard's Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in central Indiana at dawn, Aug. 24. The range is intended to give servicemembers an opportunity to engage targets under physically demanding and mentally stressful situations by combining a 500 meter tactical sprint and cadre addressing servicemembers with words of “motivational” inspiration. (Photo by Spc. John Crosby)