California National Guard

U.S. Army Pfc. Cody Perez of the California Army National Guard’s Headquarters Company, 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 224th Sustainment Brigade, tosses canned goods into boxes June 23, 2020, at th More

Afghan contractors and Soldiers of Train, Advise and Assist Command-South, comprised of the 40th Infantry Division, California National Guard, and the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, fi More

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The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: World War II veteran and former Army Air Corps Lieutenant (LT) Richard "Hank" Sciaroni stands with Major General (MGEN) Paul D. More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Command Chief Master Sergeant David Dunlap reads the citation to accompany the Bronze Star Award to World War II veteran and fo More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: United States Representative Anna G. Esho, from the 14th Congressional District, California presents the Bronze Star Medal to W More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: World War II veteran and former Army Air Corps Lieutenant Richard Hank Sciaroni sits with Major General Paul D. Monroe, the Adj More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: World War II veteran and former Army Air Corps Lieutenant Richard Hank Sciaroni receives congratulations and applause fom Major More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: 129th Rescue Wing Command Chief Master Sergeant David Dunlap, United States Representative Anna G. Eshoo, of the 14th Congressi More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: World War II veteran and former Army Air Corps Lieutenant Richard Hank Sciaroni stands for a photograph with Major General Paul More

Undated photo of Joseph DePhillips, who served with the California National Guard's 40th Infantry Division during the Korean War. DePhillips died in Oct. 2016 at the age of 84. (Courtesy photo)

"Group of National Guard Officers from the 112th & 233rd California National Guard, AAA Brigade at fueling area, "B" Battery, 9th AAA Missile Bn., Fort Cronkhite. Included in group is Brigadier General James W More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Big Sur State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Paul J. Harrington Release Status: Released t More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Secretary of Defense William Cohen talks with soldiers from a platoon of the 3rd Battalion, 160th Infantry (Mechanized), a unit More

A portrait is displayed during a memorial service with full military honors to remember U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul D. Monroe, Jr., Oct. 14, 2019, in Mather, California. Monroe, who died Sept. 18 at age 83, served More

Wife and mother, 22 year old Jacqueline Feeney is the first female recruit in the California Army National Guard to be sworn into a combat arms role today, June 12th at Cal Guard’s Joint Forces Headquarters. Sh More

Pearl Harbor survivor Leo Priest, 96, of Palm Springs, California, waves to the crowd while riding in a fire truck Nov. 11, 2017, during the 21st annual Palm Springs Veterans Day Parade in Palm Springs, Califor More

Soldiers at Camp Bondsteel took off running at the start of a 3 km race Aug. 15. The race started a day of celebration for Polish Armed Forces Day, hosted by the Multinational Battle Group-East Polish Contingen More

Vanessa Martinez, 13, of Sequoia Middle School in Porterville, California, breathes a sigh of relief after delivering a speech on immigration as part of the California Cadet Corps’ Individual Major Awards (IMA) More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Parks State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: California National Guard Scene Camera Oper More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Nathan Heusdens, USMC Release Status: Released t More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd BN 7th MAR Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Nathan More

Then, Sgt. Christopher Davis, and Spc. Erikka Lynn Gretter, served in Iraq in 2003-2004 with the 649th Military Police Company, California Army National Guard, near Baghdad. Davis was part of their Criminal Inv More

The purple amole, a 4- to 16-inch tall member of the Agavaceae family, is known to exist only two places in the world: the California Army National Guard training base Camp Roberts in Monterey and San Luis Obis More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST Scene Camera Operator: SP More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST Scene Camera Operator: SP More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST Scene Camera Operator: SP More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST Scene Camera Operator: SP More

Christian Wellisch looks out from the cage at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif., on April 1, 2006, during a fight with Dan Evensen. Wellisch won the fight.

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JUMP START Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: SOUTHEA More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Santa Rosa State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD Scene Camera Oper More

Students build rockets at the STARBASE Academy in Sacramento, Calif. The California National Guard runs two STARBASE Academies that are designed to get fifth-grade students interested in science, technology, en More

Japanese soldiers move in to clear a village where California National Guard soldiers with the 1/184th are in a field training excercise scenario as terrorists in the village, Fort Hunter Liggett, Nov. 15.

California Army National Guard 184th Infantry soldiers from Modesto, Calif., are activated to help civil authorities with the San Diego fire disaster. Soldiers were deployed from Modesto Airport. A staging area More

Sgt. Eric S. Hille, a native of Reedley, Calif., serving with the 1-160th Infantry Battalion out of Inglewood, Calif., looks down at a ceremony program while waiting for his Soldier to become a naturalized citi More

Capt. William Swenson, left, assists severely wounded Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Westbrook onto a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter Sept. 8, 2009, during the Battle of Ganjgal in Afghanistan. Sgt. Marc Dragony, right, an More

Staff Sgt. Erik Vargas, California National Guard, efficiently engages targets during the Reflexive Fire match July 10, 2020 during the Marksmanship Advisory Council Region Seven Championships held at Camp Will More

A C-23 Sherpa from the California Army National Guard’s Detachment 1, Company I, 185th Theater Aviation Brigade, flies over San Diego. The cargo plane, which has served the Guard since 1990 and is considered a More

The California National Guard's Work for Warriors program has placed 1,850 Cal Guardsmen into jobs since the program started March 29, 2012.

California Air National Guard Deputy Adjutant General Brig. Gen. Randall Ball, center, addresses a crowd of military members and their families who had just completed a 90-minute train ride on BNSF Railway's Ho More

Second Lt. Jorge Ramirez, a member of Joint Task Force Domestic Support-Counterdrug, receives his Ranger tab after completing Ranger School July 16, 2010. (U.S. Army National Guard photo/ 2nd Lt. Kara Siepmann More

A California Army National Guard Soldier from the 649th Military Police Company out of San Luis Obispo, California cleans illegal water diversion piping out of an illicit marijuana grow site in support of Opera More

A cadet at the Stanislaus Military Academy raises his hand to ask a question during a presentation by Master Sgt. Ron Biggs, a Drug Demand Reduction team member with the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force.

Ugah, then a second lieutenant in the California Army National Guard, attends a family appreciation event with his wife, Olga, and children, Sofia and Rian, on Fort Sill, Okla., in 2010.

Sgt. Angelo Dubuisson and Sgt. 1st Class Ian Bones, members of the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force, stand with employees from the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists before the kick More

A member of the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force Drug Demand Reduction Team watches as a student attempts to peddle a cart while wearing Fatal Vision goggles meant to simulate the effects of bei More

Staff Sgt. Rory A. Nichols, Spc. Luke Arredondo, Spc. Sinue Ali Garcia-Guzman and Spc. Adam Funk, members of the search and rescue team of the 235th Engineer Company, 579th Engineer Battalion, 49th Military Pol More

A mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP vehicle, barrels down a dirt road at the Task Force Warrior off-road driver training course at Camp Roberts, Calif., June 26, 2011.

Spc. Anthony Melendez and Pvt. Chris Fernandez watch as Staff Sgt. Alden Camaya, with the Task Force 9th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package search and ext More

After extracting a victim from a crushed car during a training scenario at the Joint Patriot Exercise July 2011 in Volk Field CRTC, Wis., Pfc. Mark Quezada, and Air National Guard medics, Staff Sgt. Carlos Chav More

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jerald Clements of Rancho Cordova, Calif., the Detachment 1 commander for the 40th Infantry Division and senior planning officer for Talisman Sabre’s Combined Forces Land Component Command (C More

A member of the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force, working with a multi-agency team in support of Operation Full Court Press hoists into an illicit marijuana grow site in the Mendocino National F More

Members of the Graduate Recognition and Internship Program, a program of the California National Guard's Grizzly Youth Academy, walk to their designated platoons at Camp San Luis Obispo July 22. The students ar More

During marijuana reclamation activities at an undisclosed site within the Mendocino National Forest, members of the California National Guard Joint Task Force Domestic Support - Counterdrug along with several f More

U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Donald Fisher, front, of the California Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 143rd Field Artillery Battalion, Alpha Battery, practices an urban movement exercise with fellow soldiers, July 26 More

Spc. John Gietzen from the California Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 160th Infantry, Alpha Company, hurries to reassemble an M4 carbine, an M249 light machine gun and an M240B machine gun during the Iron More

Spc. Caesar Gurierrez and Spc. Kenneth Galante, range controllers and observers, remotely control multiple targets while escorting Soldiers from the California National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 160th Infantry Reg More

Spc. Leonardo Becerra, a medic with the California Army National Guard, came to the rescue of a woman who had been stabbed in the chest on March 11, 2014. His actions stopped her bleeding before paramedics arri More

Spc. Brian Quinonez of the 224th Sustainment Brigade, Long Beach, Calif., performs sit-ups during an early morning Army Physical Fitness Test at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif., Sept. 12, 2011. The APFT was the fi More

California National Guardsmen stand in front of the State Veterans Memorial monument during a 10th anniversary ceremony commemorating those who lost their lives on 9/11, held in Sacramento, Sept. 11.

Donovan Gray, a firefighter and paramedic from the South Placer Fire Department, places an American flag next to the name of a 9/11 victim during the 10th anniversary commemoration event held at the Capitol Mal More

Staff Sgt. Demetrius McCowan (right) of Fresno, Calif., a sheet metal aircraft structural mechanic for the 1106th Theater Aviation Support Maintenance Group, sits with his sponsor Sgt. 1st Class James Palleres, More

Soldiers from the 49th Military Police Brigade of the California National Guard conduct communications operations during Vital Connection training exercise here, Sept. 13. More than 40 agencies and 260 personne More

Spc. Steven Pfeiffer, left, and Spc. Christopher Montoya, from the California Army National Guard’s Bravo Company, 79th Brigade Special Troops Battalion Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System team conduct a se More

Twelve-year-old Juan Meza of Santa Ana, Calif., leads his team on “Trollies,” as a member of the Drug Demand Reduction Team, Joint Task Force Domestic Support – Counterdrug, Southern Region Command, California More

Spc. Dennis Yi with Bravo Troop, 1-144th Field Artillery Battalion, California Army National Guard, pulls the lanyard on an old cannon during the Wings, Wheels and Rotors Expo at Joint Forces Training Base Los More

Students from Empire Oaks Elementary School in Folsom, Calif., watch and cheer as an Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from California Joint Task Force Domestic Support - Counterdrug Team Hawk land More

California National Guard's adjutant general, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, centered in white dress uniform, gets the final after action review comments during a Headquarters Update Brief from Col. Robert Spano, More

Air Force Staff Sgt. Aaron Bisher, a member of the 162nd Fighter Wing from Tucson, Ariz., observes a “deceased civilian” after a simulated nuclear detonation Nov. 4 during the 2011 Arizona Statewide Vigilant Gu More

Airmen from the California and Arizona National Guard combine to form a Fatality Search and Recovery Team, Nov. 4 during the 2011 Arizona Statewide Vigilant Guard Exercise in Phoenix. After getting their assign More

Airmen from the California and Arizona National Guard combine to form a Fatality Search and Recovery Team Nov. 4 during the 2011 Arizona Statewide Vigilant Guard Exercise in Phoenix. After getting their assignm More

A large-scale simulated disaster site, which included crushed buildings, overturned vehicles, a four-story tower and confined spaces below the surface, was designed to be as realistic as possible by Oklahoma Ci More

Participants in the Dec. 4-9 Driver’s Training Course, sponsored by the 115th Regional Support Group, California Army National Guard, unite prior to their Dec. 9 graduation at the 115th Armory in Roseville, Cal More

Graduates of the Huntington Park Police Departments' Juveniles-At-Risk Program pose for a photo with their instructors after their graduation ceremony Dec. 17, 2011. (U.S. Army National Guard photo/ Released)

From far left to right: Spc. Douglas Huston, a full-time student, speaks with Sgt. Tawfic Rashid, a corrections officer, while Sgt. Steven Sokheang, a security guard, shows Sgt. 1st Class Victor Maurizzio and S More

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III, listens to a briefing about the renovations taking place during his tour of Camp Roberts, Calif., Jan. 25, 2012. The purpose of the visit was to see the soldier's More

Lt. Col. Zac Delwiche, commander for 95th Civil Support Team, California Army National Guard, engages in an multiple agency integration brief with local law enforcement agencies while anticipating in Operation More

Airmen from the 144th Security Forces and the 146th Security Forces set up tents during Operation Red Snow. During the multi-force, multi-agency exercise the two Security Forces squadrons will act as OPFORS, or More

Pictured is Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Pickel Meadows, about 20 miles northwest of Bridgeport, Calif. Nearly 100 California Air and Army National Guardsmen conducted cold weather training, More

Members of the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force conduct a tactical medical training seminar for law enforcement officers in support of the California Border Alliance Group, Feb. 21-23, 2012. (U. More

Command Chief Master Sergeant Denise Jelinski-Hall, senior enlisted leader of the National Guard Bureau, signs a list of visitors to the California Military Departments “Wall of Heroes,” in Sacramento, Calif., More

A member of the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force mans a table that emphasizes the importance of healthy lifestyles at the annual Kick Butts Day in Niland, Calif., March 21, 2012. The event was h More

The 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Division, Brigade Special Troops Battalion, Minnesota Army National Guard, transferred authority to the 140th Chemical Company, California National Guard here April 19. The comm More

Spc. Julian Batz, a cavalry scout with K Troop, 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry Regiment, eagerly anticipates the start of the 60-yard shuttle sprint event in the new Army Physical Readiness Test during the 2012 Re More

Maintenance crew from the 146th Airlift Wing prep a C-130J Super Herc equipped with Modular Airborne Firefighting System II July 1, 2012, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. They are deployed th More

MAFFS 8, a C130-H from the 145th Airlift Wing in Charlotte, N.C., taxis out to return home on July 3, 2012 from Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. The 145th Airlift Wing lost MAFFS 7 in a fatal ac More

A C130-H equipped with Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems from the 153rd Airlift Wing in Cheyenne, Wyo., drops retardant near the Squirrel Creek fire about 70 miles east of Cheyenne, July 6, 2012. MAFFS is a More

Sgt. Ruben Sanchez, an explosive ordnance technician with the 217th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, California Army National Guard, shows Spc. Matthew Renke and Sgt. Harold Adams, also technicians with the More

Riverside, Calif., native Staff Sgt. Ruben A. Sanchez, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team Leader with the Camp Roberts-based 217th Ordnance Company (EOD), California Army National Guard, demonstrates hand-entr More

A California Army National UH-60 Black Hawk crew from the 1-140th Aviation Battalion (Assault) in Los Alamitos, Calif., lifts off July 15 in its shocking pink-painted helicopter during the Robbers Fire in Place More

A C-130 J equipped with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System from the 146th Airlift Wing, California Air National Guard is marshaled into the reloading pit at the Boise tanker base Aug. 7, 2012. The 146th A More

The 12,500-square-foot Organizational Maintenance Shop will provide work bays and offices for several units. Solar tubes light the maintenance, office and common areas in the day time.

Two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters from the 129th Rescue Wing, Califorina Air National Guard, out of Moffett Field, and one UH-60 from 1-140th Aviation Battalion (Air Assault), California Army National Guard, out More

El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini talks to a group of officials from state and federal agencies during a tour of an illicit marijuana grow site Aug. 21, 2012. The tour was part of Operation Mountain Swee More

California Army and Air National Guard firefighting aircraft and their crews from the 129th Rescue Wing, out of Moffett Field, and the 3-140th Aviation Battalion, out of Los Alamitos, work out of a wildfire sta More

Brig. Gen. Keith D. Jones, commanding general of the 40th Infantry Division, and Brent Jett, chairman of the 40th Infantry Division Korean War veterans greet members and their families at the welcoming ceremony More

Senior Master Sgt. Daniel Greenawalt, the Senior Intelligence Analyst for the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force, speaks with members of the Mothers of Molestation Survivors (MOMS) during a monthl More

Sgt. Joseph R. Reyes, of Manteca, Calif., checks the wires connecting explosives to a detonator at one of the firing ranges on Camp Bondsteel Oct. 10. The French forces in Kosovo contacted Reyes' unit, the 217t More

Global Information Network Architecture (GINA) subject matter expert, Dave Tinsley briefs California National Guard Commander Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin with 129th Rescue Wing Vice Commander, Col. Jeffrey Magra More

Col. Laura Yeager, commander of the 40th Combat Aviation Brigade, is lowered from a UH-72 Lakota helicopter during a training assembly at Camp Roberts, Calif., in November. (Army National Guard photo/Staff Sgt. More