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  • Teens line up to help unload tents and sleeping bags during the week-long Laramie River Valley Rendezvous program near Ft. Collins, Colo. July 6-12. The kids, who are identified as being high-risk for potential drug use, participate in various games and activities throughout the week and are mentored by members of the Colorado National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard Photo by Tech. Sgt. B. Kevin Coulter)

    Laramie River Valley Rendezvous 2014

    Children in the Ft. Collins area had a chance to get away from it all and spend a week in the woods experiencing some of the best that the Laramie River Valley has to offer.  In 1984, local police officers started a program for at-risk youths that would get them out of their comfort zone and help them increase their self-esteem and reduce criminal
  • Employers of traditional Colorado National Guardsmen step off a Chinook to visit the 233rd Space Group, Greeley Air National Guard Station, Greeley, Colo., September13, 2014. The Colorado Employee Support of the Guard and Reserve hosted an ‘Employer’s Day’ for members of the community who were nominated by an employee and member of the Colorado National Guard. Founded in 1972, ESGR promotes free education, consultation, and if necessary, mediation for employers of Guard and Reserve employees. Its goal is to support America’s employers who share their employees with the nation to ensure U.S. national security. (Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Nicole Manzanares)

    Colorado ESGR gives support to Guardsmen, employers

    Fewer than one percent of the United States' population serves in the military today.  That means most of the nation's civilians don't have first-hand experience of what military service entails.  Employers who hire Guardsmen and Reservists know they are doing military 'stuff,' but when they suddenly disappear for random periods of time, that
  • Lt. Col. (ret) Anthony Landry, Active Relationships Center Master Trainer, explains the importance of communication and the challenges extraverts and introverts face in relationship to a group of Strong Bonds instructors. Chaplains and support personnel from around the nation gathered March 17-21, 2014 to teach and learn from each other at Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colo. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. Ben Garland)

    Build relationships for a better Air National Guard

    Twenty Air National Guard chaplains, spouses and Airmen and Family Readiness coordinators from all over the country, including Guam, attended Strong Bonds Instructor Training at Buckley Air Force Base March 17-21, according to Lt. Col. (ret) Anthony Landry, Active Relationships Center Master Trainer."The goal of the Strong Bonds Instructor Training
  • Capt. Eric Miller, 140th Medical Group, Colorado Air National Guard, with his son, Garrett, after he was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma malignant brain tumor at the age of five. (Photo courtesy of Capt. Eric Miller)

    COANG Guardsman finds inspiration out of hardship

    Eric Miller is a captain in the Colorado National Guard. He is a humble member of the 140th Medical Group's CERFP Team; however he is also a hero.Some may remember the day he and six other military members came to the rescue when a car sped out of control and crashed back in March 2011. Captain Miller was heading to his monthly military training
  • The Colorado Army National Guard opened its newest readiness center in Windsor, Colo., Oct. 13, 2012. The 17-acre facility is the home of approximately 130 Soldiers in the 1157th Forward Support Company of the 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment. (Official Army National Guard photo by 2nd Lt. Skye A. Robinson/RELEASED)

    Remembering Windsor: Colo. Guard provides calm presence after devastating storm

    On May 22, 2008, at 11:26 a.m., an EF3 tornado ripped through Windsor, Colo. Winds reaching up to 65 mph killed one person destroyed 78 homes in a 39-mile swath of chaos and destruction.Within two hours of the twister's departure, Colorado National Guardsmen from the 137th Space Warning Squadron (now the 233rd Space Group) in nearby Greeley, Colo.,
  • Jordan Armed Forces soldiers provide security for Syrian refugees at the Tal shehab Reception Center near Ash Shajarah in northern Jordan, April 2, 2013. Today alone, hundreds of men, women and children of all ages braved sniper fire in order to cross the border. Photographed here are just some of the 1.2 million refugees fleeing violence in their homeland. (US Air Force Photo by Air National Guard Capt. Darin Overstreet)

    'Jordan First'; Hospitality, brotherhood for all

    A simple blue kite punctuates the sky in Ash Shajarah, Jordan; a land of rolling hills pinstriped in olive groves and tree-lined streets. Just a few kilometers north, in Al Ramtha Governance, a man who has been shot by a sniper is carried into Jordan from across the Syrian border. Now lying on a litter inside a medical trailer at Tal shehab
  • Lieutenant Col. John Stevenson, range commander, 140th Operations Support Squadron, talks with the pilots flying overhead to coordinate the specified targets prior to bomb drops. (U.S. Air Force Photo / Capt. Kinder Blacke)

    Home on the Range – Airburst Range provides critical training to all services

    It's easy to recognize the sound of the 140th Wing's F-16s flying overhead, yet while they are the most conspicuous component of the wing's mission, there are many other aspects that warrant recognition. This feature is the first in a series that will recognize the people in the 140th Wing, Colorado Air National Guard, who work hard every day to
  • Members of the Colorado Air National Guard 140th Medical Group pose for a photo with kids that have been given fake wounds and temporary are cast during the health fair for the Southern Ute Tribal members, Ignacio, Colo., July 27, 2012. The 140th Medical Group is in Southwest Colorado this week hosting a health fairs for the regions three Ute Tribes and the surrounding communities. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Wolfram M. Stumpf)

    Operation CoCare, a benefit for the Ute Nation

    More than 30 members of the Colorado Air National Guard's 140th Medical Group travelled to southwest Colorado to spend a week learning from and providing health services to the Native American Ute Tribes as part of a health promotion fair, Operation CoCare. The Operation CoCare mission would not only help fellow Coloradoans, but would also help
  • U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Philip Mabie, right, Master Sgt. Brian Kelly, center, and Staff Sgt. Matthew Milne, 140th Security Forces Squadron, plot cordons on a map as part of an unexploded ordinance scenario during an Operational Readiness Exercise at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 21, 2012. The exercise evaluates service members’ mission readiness for real world deployments. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. John Nimmo, Sr.)

    An insider's perspective... ORE

    It is dark and cool at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado. An Operational Readiness Exercise has been running since yesterday, but sleepy Airmen are arriving to a dark parking lot that has been transformed to a giant dressing room. Standing near their cars, you can see silhouettes getting dressed for the day. They're struggling with protective over
  • The author: Colorado Air National Guard Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Theiral gets some fresh air atop Dome Peak, a landing zone at 12,200 feet above sea level, Aug. 25, 2011, while waiting for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter she rode there on to return. Theiral is working on a story series about the Colorado Army National Guard’s High-altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site in Gypsum, Colo. (Photo © 2011 Deborah Grigsby Photography | www.deborahgrigsby.com) (Used with permission)

    The ‘write’ stuff: Military genealogy shows I had it all along

    Many families carry a legacy of military service. Mine doesn't. The last of six kids, I was the only one who joined the military. Shaped by our upbringing, we're all patriots, each in his or her own, unique way. We rarely agree with each others' political viewpoints and none of us look anything alike. In fact, I'm the only one for at least three
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