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Working through their mission essential tasks lists, the Soldiers from the 228th Engineer Company, 337th Engineer Battalion, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, were tested with removing wire obstacles, creating a bridge over an anti-tank ditch, clearing a berm, and more.

Interview: Staff Sgt. Scott Haslett, a horizontal construction engineer with the 228th Engineer Company, 337th Engineer Battalion, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade.

(Video by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler)

228th Engineer Co. Soldiers conduct bulldozer training

Congratulations to the winners of the Region II Best Warrior Competition: Pfc. Alexander Gravely, West Virginia National Guard, Soldier of the year, and Sgt. James McGill, Maryland National Guard, NCO of the year. The four-day, nine event competition was held May 10 to 14 at Fort Indiantown Gap.

Video edited by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler

Music: "Rumble," by Bensound.com

Regional Best Warrior Competition concludes at Fort Indiantown Gap

Members of the 111th Security Forces Squadron conduct training at Biddle Air National Guard Base on May 6, 2021, consisting of mounted and dismounted patrols, convoys, IED recognition, route clearing and counter insurgency tactics.

Training with the 111th Security Forces Squadron

National Nurses Week 2021 is from May 6 to 12, and military nurses from the Pennsylvania National Guard are currently serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, helping administer and draw COVID-19 vaccines at the Esperanza Community Vaccination Center in North Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania National Guard has been supporting COVID-19 vaccine sites across the Commonwealth since mid-March. Guard members have supported vaccination centers that have administered more than 250,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses. (National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Ross A. Whitley / 111th Attack Wing)

Celebrating Pa. National Guard nurses for National Nurses Week

Key members of the 171 ARW Tiger Team discuss how they were able to implement procedures that kept members safe and mission ready during the COVID-19 pandemic, May 25, 2021. They accomplished this by implementing procedures to ensure all COVID-19 protocols were met. (US Air National Guard video by Tech. Sgt. Michael P. Fariss)

171st ARW Tiger Team attacks COVID-19

Soldiers from the National Guard graduated from Air Assault School at Fort Indiantown Gap, on April 17, 2021. The school consisted of 10 days of intense physical and mental training that required Soldiers to be detail oriented as they learned to sling-load, create a swiss seat, and to rappel from a tower and Uh-60 Black Hawk helicopter.

Created: Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler

Music: "Going Higher," by Bensound.com

Soldiers graduate from Air Assault School at Fort Indiantown Gap

Pennsylvania Air and Army National Guard members are supporting a state-run, federally-supported COVID-19 Community Vaccination Center in the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania National Guard and U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remain committed to providing continued, flexible Department of Defense support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of the whole-of-government response to COVID-19. (National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Ross A. Whitley / 111th Attack Wing)

Pa. National Guard members support COVID-19 vaccination center in Philadelphia

The Pennsylvania National Guard's Individual Training Branch conducted its Ranger Sapper Assessment Program Sept. 17 to 20 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.

RSAP is a rigorous four-day assessment designed to mirror the physical and mental demands of the assessment phase at the Army's Ranger School and Sapper Leader Course. This program identifies the most promising candidates and further prepares them for success at some of the Army’s most demanding schools. (Video by Capt. Ethan Merritt)

Pa. National Guard holds Ranger Sapper Assessment Program

Soldiers of the 1/109th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division conduct a 10-round fire mission Oct. 9, 2020, at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. The speed of the fire mission is the testament to the leadership of the noncommissioned officers of the battalion, and the skill of the indirect fire Soldiers.

Steel on Steel: 1/109th Infantry conducts mortar training

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U.S. Soldiers with Bravo Company, 628th Aviation Support Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade reinstall the main rotor head on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter after routine maintenance at an airfield in the 28th ECAB’s area of operations in the Middle East. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Francis Calabro)

628th ASB's performance 'remarkable,' awarded by AAAA

By Capt. Travis Mueller | Oct. 18, 2021

The 628th Aviation Support Battalion, after their year-long deployment to the Middle East, was recognized as the 2021 Outstanding Logistics Support Unit of the Year by the Army Aviation Association of America...

Capt. James Goslin, commander of the 228th Engineer Company, pins an award onto Cpl. Nicholas Nye, for his work during the training in preparation for their deployment during departure ceremony on October 10, 2021. The Soldiers were supported by friends, family, and fellow service members, that attended to support the Soldiers of the 228th on their mission (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler).

228th Engineer Company hold deployment departure ceremony

By Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | Oct. 15, 2021

Soldiers from the 228th Engineer Company, 337th Engineer Battalion, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, held their deployment departure ceremony at North Lebanon High School on October 10, 2021...

Brig. Gen. Michael Regan, Pa. deputy adjutant general-air (right), rubs shoulders with Gen. Carl Spaatz re-enactor Chris Boswell following a road dedication ceremony in Boyertown, Pa. June 28, 2018. Spaatz, the first Chief of Staff of the newly formed Air Force following the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947 grew up in Boyertown and is touted as one of their greatest citizens.

Titan of Air Force history recognized, celebrated in Boyertown

By Maj. Nicole Reigelman | Oct. 7, 2021

Pennsylvania’s prominence in U.S. Army history and its role in today’s force is well known - from watershed events at Valley Forge and Gettysburg to being the home of the U.S. Army War College and the third largest Army...

A UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter is parked on Muir Army Airfield for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new variant on Oct. 6, 2021, at the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. EAATS was the first unit in the Army – active duty, National Guard or Army Reserve – to receive the new variant.

Army unveils new Black Hawk variant at Fort Indiantown Gap

By Brad Rhen | Oct. 6, 2021

The U.S. Army unveiled the newest variant of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the UH-60V, during a ceremony Wednesday at the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site...

Attendees at the annual Maj, Octavius V. Catto Honor Ceremony pose for a photo at the Catto Monument at Philadelphia City Hall on Oct. 2, 2021.

Pa. National Guard Soldiers recognized as Catto Award recipients

By Brad Rhen | Oct. 5, 2021

Two Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers were recognized as the 2021 recipients of the prestigious Maj. Octavius V. Catto Medal during an event Oct. 2 at the Union League of Philadelphia...

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