M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket System gunner, Spc. Kenneth Fake, eases out of a mud caked M270A1 cabin, before his crew begins reloading the launcher, during a live fire exercise, April 29, 2011, at the Wyoming More
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and his wife Carol Mead welcome home Airman 1st Class Emily Kolja outside the WyANG dining facility May 11, 2011. Kolja, a loadmaster assigned to the 30th Airlift Squadron, Wyoming Air Na More
Soldiers from the Wyoming Army National Guard's 1041st Engineer Company piece together sections of the Dry Span Bridge during training at Fontenelle, Wyo., May 13, 2011. The DSB is new equipment to the 1041st.
Spc. Bill Spaulding, of Rawlins, Wyo., works in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011, passing sandbags to members of the Wyoming Smokebusters, a firefighting squad run by the Wyoming Department of Corrections. He is a More
Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011. He is among more than 40 soldiers and Airmen of the Wyoming National Guard who responded to Carbon Coun More
Soldiers from Companies C and D, 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry, Colorado National Guard, prepare to enter a three-story structure as they train for military operations on urban terrain, July 19, 2011, at the Ca More
Members of the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Civil Engineering Squadron fire department and 153rd Security Forces Squadron take part in a mass casualty exercise at the Cheyenne Regional Airport, Cheyenne, More
Sgt. Brian Coleman, a Wyoming Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief, assigned to the C Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, helps a child put on his helmet, while sitting in the helicopter More
Staff Sgt. Darren Johnson, assigned to the Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Security Forces Squadron, inspects the bag of a guest of the Air Power Air Show at the Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Cheyenne, Wy More
Lt. Col. Guy Beaudoin, Wyoming Army National Guard Construction and Facilities officer, speaks to an audience, during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Field Maintenance Shop No. 2, in Laramie, Wyo., Sept. 19 More
Staff Sgt. Jason McGinnis lifts his son into his arms just after stepping off of the C-130 Hercules he served on as crew chief during a deployment. Seventeen members of the 30th Airlift Squadron, 153rd Airlift More
Wyoming Honor Conservation Camp Smokebuster Evan Armstrong, of Casper, watches a fire damage tree fall on property at the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, Wyo., April 10, 2012. The camp is working to clear More
Flight nurse 2nd Lt. Leigh Miller, of Scottsbluff, Neb., assigned to the Wyoming Air National Guard's 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, signals a halt to further loading of a C-130, as the unit prepares fo More
A U.S. Forest Service lead plane directs two C-130s from the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, during Modular Airborne Firefighting System training, April 16, 2012, over Camp Guernsey Joint Traini More
Christian Gonzalez, 14, from Hanna (Wyo.) Middle School, prepares for the climb up to the start of the Wyoming National Guard Counter Drug Support Program's High Ropes Course, at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Ce More
Wyoming Youth ChalleNGe Cadet Alex Aiken, of Casper, Wyo., receives some words of wisdom from Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, May 1, 2012, at the WYCP campus at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, Wyo. The WYCP is a p More
Bureau of Land Management engine captain Randy Jack, from Grand Junction, Colo., works the engine's pump during training at the Rocky Mountain Engine Academy, May 15, 2012, at the Camp Guernsey Joint Training C More
Wyoming Army National Guard flight medic Staff Sgt. Matthew Harmon, a firefighter for the City Grand Junction, Colo., Fire Department, prepares to be lowered on a hoist to treat and rescue a patient with simula More
A California Air National Guard C-130, carrying the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, flies over firefighters from the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, battling the Sawmill Canyon Fire on the camp’s No More
Firefighters with the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center Fire Department move to another section of the camp's North Training Area during the Sawmill Canyon Fire on the camp’s North Training Area, July 16, 201 More
A Joint Training and Experimentation Center unmanned aerial vehicle being prepared to help with firefighting efforts at the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center's North Training Area, July 20, 2012, takes a test More
Col. Pat Moffett, commander of the 153rd Maintenance Group, Wyoming Air National Guard, sits atop his horse as he renders honors during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner at Frontier Park, in Cheyenne, Wyo More
Civil Air Patrol Cadet 2nd Lt. Patrick Cussen, of Johnstown, Colo., begins an orienteering course at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, during the Wyoming Wing, Civil Air Patrol Encampment, Aug. 7, 2012. The More
Cheyenne Police Officer Dan Long, also a captain in the Wyoming Army National Guard and commander of the 197th Public Affairs Detachment, speaks with a motorist who was pulled over for allegedly not having curr More
Spc. Brandon Duggan, of Cheyenne, Wyo., embraces his girlfriend Brittany Wilber upon his return to Cheyenne from a year-long deployment to Kosovo with Detachment 3, B Company, 777th Aviation. The Soldiers left More
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead presents Staff Sgt. Travis Wood, a certificate of appreciation for his service to Wyoming and the nation, during a retirement ceremony, Sept. 20, 2012, at the Wyoming National Guard’s Joi More
Wyoming Cowboy ChalleNGe Academy cadets Alexander Romero, 16, of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Rawlyn Lohr, 16, of Gering, Neb., both members of Class 14, receive help on an assignment from their teacher, Angie Schultz, More
Staff Sgt. Shawn Hauf, the training noncommissioned officer for the Wyoming Army National Guard’s 960th Brigade Support Battalion’s B Company, based in Torrington, makes a cutting strike at a Wyoming Department More
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management’s Tyler Crofutt, of Billings, Mont., watches over a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules operated by the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, in Che More
Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center Firefighters Anthony Ennen, of California, Nick Long, of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Miguel Sandoval, of Cheyenne, race to put on their protective equipment, known as bunker gear, du More
Wyo. Air National Guard Lt. Col. Dave Herder accepts a plaque signed by the fulltime staff at Camp Guernsey from Col. Richard Knowlton during a “Hail and Farewell” ceremony at the camp Nov. 26, 2013. Herder wil More
Wyoming Machinery Company representative Casey Turcato talks to an interested job seeker during the Hero 2 Hire job fair in Cheyenne on Thursday. Over a dozen different local companies showed up to event. US Ar More
Joshua Beaver, 3, waits for his dad, Spc. Andrew Beaver, of Rock Springs, to arrive in Laramie. Beaver's unit, the 133rd Engineer Company, returned from a 9-month deployment to Bahrain April 13.
Spc. Cory Provstgaard preps a stick of C4 for the next task on the demo range during demolition training for the 1041st Engineer Company, at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, Wyo., April 25, 2014. Wyoming A More
STARBASE camper Grady Burghard, 11, from Gilchrist Elementary programmed his robot to navigate a specific course on the Twister mission during a four-day robotics camp at its Raper Armory facility, in Cheyenne, More
Wyoming Game and Fish Department Wildlife Technician Krysta Demere sets up a microphone, linked to an acoustic bat detector, to determine a particular bat species’ presence. The recordings are later digitally rendered.
Tech. Sgt. Brice Portwood, of Cheyenne, gives a land navigation lesson before the SFS embarked on the land navigation course.
Cadet Senior Master Sgt. Christian Gopperton, of Casper, Wyo., helps Cadet Capt. Callum Schneider, of Laramie, Wyo., into a proximity PPE suit at the Camp Guernsey Fire Dept.
Wyoming Army National Guard medics validate their skills during an annual training event at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center Aug. 19. Medics from all of Wyoming's line units are assembled once a year for val More
Jaesa Whitesell, 8, and Luke Salsgiver, 9, both students at Jessup Elementary School in Cheyenne, watch the foamy chemical reaction created by adding potassium iodide to hydrogen peroxide during one of four exp More
Wyoming Veterans Commission Vice Chairman Lee Alley speaks to the assembled veterans during the Wyoming Vietnam Veterans Reunion Welcome Home ceremony, June 5 at Casper Events Center. Alley deployed to Vietnam More
UH-60 Black Hawks arrives to the Wyoming Army Aviation Support Facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The new aircraft will be used in a command aviation unit in the Wyoming Army National Guard.
Gillette Area Leadership Institute members visit Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center as part of their leadership curriculum. While there, they visited Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy, fired various weapons at More
Wyoming Army National Guard soldiers practice urban combat operations at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center Feb. 27. B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 300th Field Artillery is conducting pre-mobilization training at More
Army Sgt. Phil Buettner, a crew chief at C Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, replaces a main rotor blade tip on a UH-60 Black Hawk at the Army Aviation Support Facility, in Cheyenne.
Brig. Gen. Mount reminisces about his Army career and time in South Korea as he finishes his last mission there. He is scheduled to retire in May.
A map depicts the locations of the signs to be place within the North Training Area.
Wyoming Army National Guard Sgt. Shelby Atkins hits the ground during the High Physical Demands Tasks (HPDT) test at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center May 14. The nine-event graded evaluation came early in th More
Wyoming Army National Guard Sgt. Kyle Kindle of Camp Guernsey Training Command and range control lines up azimuths to the "target box" for an artillery unit that is ready to fire at the north training area.
Wyoming Air National Guard Col. Paul Lyman, commander, 153rd Airlift Wing, addresses the crowd at the first ever Wyoming Military Department and U.S. Air Force co-sponsored diversity celebration dubbed “Equalit More
Maj. Gen. Luke Reiner, Wyoming adjutant general, thanks Gov. Matt Mead, commander in chief of the Wyoming National Guard, before a crowd of military members, first responders, veterans health care and service p More
A day after a hail storm uprooted and bared trees, totaled hundreds of cars, broke thousands of windows, flooded basements and shredded the siding and roofs on most homes, a team of Wyoming Army National Guard More
A wildland firefighting crew from New Jersey loads its gear and prepares to depart for one of the many fires burning in the region at the temporary Rocky Mountain Area Mobilization Center at Guernsey. Camp Guer More
Civil Air Patrol cadets and leaders fly above Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center in a Wyoming Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter August 4, 2016. The Wyoming Wing of Civil Air Patrol holds encampm More
Wyoming Army National Guard Spc. Desiree Mattson, a military pay technician, dropped, covered and held on under her desk at the Joint Force Readiness Center in Cheyenne during a national earthquake preparedness More
Members of the 153rd Airlift Wing's Structural Maintenance Section restore a T-33 Shooting Star static aircraft. The process took two weeks and was a combined effort from full time and traditional Guardsmen in More
Wyoming National Guard soldiers practice taser use Nov. 5, 2016 during their drill weekend in Laramie, Wyo. The soldiers from the 133rd Engineer Company learned several non-lethal training techniques as part of More
Sgt. Alex Goldfard, assigned to the Wyoming Army National Guard, and a member of its biathlon team, skis and shoots toward an eighth place finish at the Western Regional National Guard Biathlon Championship at More
Lt. Col. Bruce Delaporte, who took command of the WYARNG’s Recruiting and Retention Battalion last August, and was instrumental in the test's early development, explains the purpose of OPAT during a familiariza More
Wyoming National Guard soldiers responded to a Feb. 11 request from the governor and Wyoming Homeland Security to mitigate ice-jam induced flooding in Worland and surrounding areas. By Saturday morning, upwards More
The Wyoming Army National Guard Fallen Heroes Memorial Wall at the Joint Forces Readiness Center in Cheyenne, was dedicated at a Feb. 22 ceremony. Since September 11, 2001, four Wyoming soldiers, Capt. Robert L More
U.S Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Carden, a communications officer with the Wyoming National Guard one weekend a month, and a rocket fuel manufacturer at other times, enters the retired Atlas Missile silo that hou More
Camp Guernsey Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance Manager Bob Blaise, drops one of 12 coded target markers prior to the first test mission for the training center’s UAS Land Analysis Project. Reconstructing geo More
Lt. Col. Ryan Scofield, a MAFFS instructor pilot with the Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing, prepares to fly a training sortie on April 22, 2017, during MAFFS annual training at Gowen Field, in Bo More
Spc. Dakota Burd, of Glenrock, a gunner assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, fires a M-240 B at 400-800 meter targets at the North Training Area at Camp Guernsey. He is part of the cre More
Second Lt. Brian Martin, from Sierra Vista, Arizona, Spc. Justin Francis, from Newcastle, and Master Sgt. Michael Smith, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, assigned to the 115h Field Artillery Brigade prepare on More
Staff Sgt. Shawn Songy, Maj. Tom Blackburn, Sgt. Jon Pratt and Spc. Joseph Then, information technology specialists assigned to the 115th Field Artillery Brigade work on the CPOF (command post of the future) tr More
High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers, assigned to A and B Batteries, 2nd Battalion, 300th Field Artillery and used by the 213th Regional Training Institute to teach the 10 level HIMARS driver reclass More
Maj. Mike Fields, Camp Guernsey JTC’s operations officer explains the camp’s part in the new emergency preparedness plan to Guernsey/Sunrise staff during a tabletop exercise August 24 at the Sim Center. The pla More
Leaders from A, B and the Headquarters Batteries, 2nd Battalion, 300th Field Artillery, conduct a pre-mission briefing at the tactical operations center at the North Training Area of Camp Guernsey Joint Trainin More
Spec. Nolan Budweg and Sgt. Trisha Fegler, vocalists with Independence Rock, the rock, pop and country ensemble from the Wyoming Army National Guard's 67th Army Band, perform for band students at Cheyenne Centr More
Julius Schram, from Huntington Beach, Calif., a self-described airborne grunt who was injured in 1991 during a mission in El Salvador, makes his way around the course Sept. 28, at the Adaptive Biathlon Camp at More
Wyoming Cowboy ChalleNGe Academy, class 32-graduate, Beau Renquist, from Casper, cuts tar paper that will be placed on the roof of a shed he, his classmates and WCA’s Carpenter Instructor Abel Ortiz, right, bui More
Tech. Sgt. Edgardo Lopez, an aircraft mechanic, and Tech. Sgt. Victor Jimenez, a non-destructive tester, assigned to the Puerto Rico Air National Guard’s 156th Airlift Wing conduct a sway brace inspection on a More
Home-schooled fifth grader Tristen Rayburn, looks on as Trowa Elbert-Armstrong, a 16-year-old East High School student works to get his team’s robot functioning during an exhibition at the Laramie County Libra More
Wyoming Air National Guard State Command Chief Master Sgt. Bill Whipple and Brig. Gen. Gregory Porter, director of the Joint Staff, address Wyoming Cowboy ChalleNGe Academy Recruiting, Placement and Mentors Coo More
A herd of antelope as seen from a Wyoming Army National Guard UH60 Black Hawk helicopter flying above Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center's North Training Area on Jan. 24, 2018. The flight enabled environmental More
Sgt. 1st Class Stacey Hiser, a platoon sergeant assigned to the Wyoming Army National Guard’s 133rd Engineer Company, fires a Taser at a target as trainer Tech. Sgt. Danny Simonson, assigned to the Wyoming Air More
Alpha Team’s Spc. Doug Brown, a rifleman, straps on his snowshoes in preparation for a live-fire exercise. Wyoming soldiers from C Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment participated at Arctic Eagle 20 More
Lauren Gurney takes freshly baked loaves of bananna bread from the oven iin her Jackson, Wyo bakery at Dornans resort.
Camp Guernsey JTC Deputy Commander lt. col. William Patton and Camp Guernsey Fire Department Station Captain Mark Streets discuss a potential fire break in an area of Sawmill Canyon on Camp Guernsey’s North Tra More
Camp Guernsey posts the flags of out-of-state units training at the facility as trainloads of their equipment roll into the Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC railyard, in Guernsey, Wyo., May 29, 2018. Arkansas’ More
The Fort Sill (Oklahoma) Field Artillery Half Section, visited Cheyenne July 20-22 to help kick off Cheyenne Frontier Days and to demonstrate how artillerymen operated 100 years ago. The Wyoming Military Depart More
Staff Sgt. Parker Koetters employs a mine detector and a long length of cord while approaching a notional bomb and booby-trapped weapons cache during a training exercise at Pole Mountain Aug. 1. Members of the More
A Wyoming Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter performs a medical evacuation drill Aug. 1, with members of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base’s 90th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight, during a training More
Wyoming Army National Guard Medical Detachment and department of health personnel evaluate Wyoming Cowboy ChalleNGe Academy cadet and patient roleplayer Brendan Diede, during a joint exercise at Camp Guernsey J More
Soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 300th Field Artillery, Forward, inventory and assemble their newly-issued night vision equipment Sept. 6, 2018 at the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center. The soldiers are pr More
Wyoming Army National Guard Officer Candidate Wyatt Winget, leading a survey team deployed to a residence north of Cheyenne for a training exercise, tests an unknown white powder at the scene. Soldiers and airm More
Maj. Gen. Luke Reiner, Wyoming’s adjutant general, poses for a groupie at the Wyoming Military Department’s first LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) workshop, Nov. 5 in Cheyenne. The 15 participants w More
Staff Sgt. Travis Scharosch, Staff Sgt. Dean Dawes and Staff Sgt. Stephen O’ Donnell fold the flag during a rotation of the final exam at the Wyoming Army National Guard's Military Funeral Honors Team 40-hour c More
Sgt. Matthew Iffert, a medic, and the course noncommissioned officer in charge, assigned to the Wyoming Army National Guard's Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion 2/300 Field Artillery Battalion, shows his s More
Sgt. Chris Olmstead, a crew chief, chats with a team member prior to a Jan. 15, 2019, patch ceremony where his former platoon became part of Task Force Iron Dragons, the Iron Eagle Brigade, 1st Armored Division More
Spc. Josh Adkins and Spc. Brianna Dukart prepare their enlistment options and programs lesson during the Wyoming Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion’s Recruiter Basic Training course at the J More
Pvt. Justin Widenham, an infantryman assigned to the Wyoming Army National Guard’s C Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment (Forward), tries to find the correct sight picture at Camp Guernsey Joint Tra More
Wyoming Army National Guard Master Sgt. Glenn Worley competes in a rifle match at the 48th Winston P. Wilson Rifle and Pistol Championships at the National Guard Marksmanship Training Center, Camp Robinson, Ark More
Tunisia’s Minister of Defense, Abdelkarim Zbidi, left, and acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs, Michelle Lenihan, right, sign the annual strategic bilateral agreement between the Un More
Meet Your ESGR Rep: Don Erickson Name: Don Erickson, Volunteer Support Coordinator Location you represent: Statewide Background: Public Health and Medical Education Hometown: Chicago Q. What did you do for a ca More
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Greg Porter, adjutant general, Wyoming National Guard, signs an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between the department and Troops to Teachers at Join Forces Readiness Center, Cheyenne, Wyo More
Family of Soldier of the 297th Infantry Regiment. Pre-Deployment Ceremony, May 28, 2019, Afton, WY.
Cadets of the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy Class of 39 serve the last few hours of community service before unwinding at a nearby bowling alley in Guernsey June 5 just 10 days before graduation. (U.S. Army More