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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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Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, stand at attention during a deployment ceremony on June 14, 2021, at Southampton Armory, Philadelphia. More than 200 Soldiers are set to deploy to the middle east to support U.S. Central Command. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler)

1-104th Cav. Soldiers depart for Middle East deployment

By Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | June 17, 2021

PHILADELPHIA -- More than 200 Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat team, 28th Infantry Division, departed June 15 for a deployment to the Middle East...

Brig. Gen. Michael Regan, commander of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, passes the unit colors to 111th Attack Wing Commander Col. Deane E. Thomey, during an assumption of command ceremony here June 13, 2021. Regan, presided over the ceremony recognizing Thomey, who officially assumed command of the 111th when he arrived here from the Pentagon in April.

111th Attack Wing welcomes new commander

By Senior Airman Wilfredo Acosta | June 14, 2021

The 111th Attack Wing welcomed Col. Deane E. Thomey as its new wing commander during an assumption of command ceremony June 13, 2021...

(Left to right) Spanish Army Sgt. 1st Class Javier Navarro-Blasco, CH-47 helicopter repairer; U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class David Boyles, Aircraft Maintenance Instructor with the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site; and Spanish Army Sgt. 1st Class Lorena Monge Prieto, CH-47 helicopter repairer, pose for a photo in front of a CH-47F Chinook at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. Navarro and Monge, recently graduated from the 15U20/30 Chinook Repairer course at EAATS.

Spanish Soldiers graduate from Chinook repairer course at Fort Indiantown Gap

By Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | June 11, 2021

Two Soldiers from the Spanish Army recently completed the Chinook Repairer course at the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site at Fort Indiantown Gap...

Col. Mark A. Goodwill, Wing Commander of the 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, receives vaccination for COVID-19 from 1st Lt. Heather M. Edsall, registered nurse assigned to 171st ARW Medical Group, in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, Jan. 23, 2021.

171st Air Refueling Wing supports COVID vaccination efforts

By Capt. Jodi Snyder | June 10, 2021

The 171st Air Refueling Wing supported COVID vaccination efforts at the installation and within the community...

A Pennsylvania National Guard Soldier takes aim with his M4 carbine during the Adjutant General's Combined-Arms Match June 5, 2021, at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. More than 40 service members from the Pennsylvania Army and Air National Guard competed with a different series of weapon systems for several awards, and the chance to be invited to be assessed for state team selection to represent Pennsylvania at the Marksmanship Advisory Council Region II (MAC II) Regional Competition.

Soldiers, Airmen compete in 2021 Adjutant General’s Combined-Arms Match

By Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | June 9, 2021

Soldiers and Airmen from the Pennsylvania National Guard competed in the annual Adjutant General’s Combined-Arms Match June 4 through 6 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa...

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