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Diamond pilots assigned to the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, perform the barrel role break maneuver during the Fort Worth Air Power Expo at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform 68 demonstrations at 34 locations across the U.S. in 2014, including one at Pease Air National Guard Base in Newington, N.H. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan Vargas/Released)

U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, is scheduled to perform at Pease Air National Guard Base, Sept. 6 - 7, 2025.

position, while Gillian serves at Pease Air National Guard Base in Newington, New Hampshire, as a respiratory therapist with the 157th Medical Group. They participated in a brief National Twin Day Q&A this year to recognize the holiday.

From left, Col. Nelson Perron, commander of the 157th Air Refueling Wing, Col. Pablo Soriano, chief of staff of the Salvadoran Air Force, Chief Master Sgt. Kevin Reiter, command chief of the 157th ARW, and Col. Rafael Melara, commander of the Salvadoran Air Force Academy, exchange gifts at the Ilopango Air Show in El Salvador on Feb.1, 2025.

Campers and staff of Copper Cannon Camp mingle with New Hampshire Guardsmen and tour a 238th Medevac Company Black Hawk helicopter on Aug. 1, 2024, in Bethlehem, N.H.

From left, Col. Saúl Orantes, commander of First Air Brigade, Salvadoran Air Force, poses for a photo with Chief Warrant Officer 3 Luke Koladish, a pilot with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment (MEDEVAC), prior to boarding their flight July 11, 2023, at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Concord, New Hampshire.

State congressional staffers gather in front of the Spirit of Portsmouth, KC-46A Pegasus on Aug. 23, 2022, at Pease Air National Guard Base in Newington, N.H.

New Hampshire Guardsmen and military aviators from Cabo Verde, including Col. Domingos Correia (middle), the West African nation’s director of national defense, convene at the Army Aviation Support Facility on May 10, 2024, in Concord, N.H.

Civilian employers from New Hampshire pose at Fort Drum, New York, while visiting with Guardsmen in the field July 21, 2022.

International competitors from El Salvador, Cabo Verde and Canada convene on the firing line at the 2024 New Hampshire National Guard Combat Marksmanship Match on June 6 at Fort Devens, Mass. About 90 competitors formed 21 teams during the three-day match and fired various rifle and pistol courses of fire. Cabo Verde and El Salvador are NHNG's official state partners, pursuant to the Department of Defense-sponsored State Partnership Program.

As part of annual training, the 238th Medevac Company, NHARNG, conducts sling-load training June 22, 2022, at Joint Base Cape Cod in Bourne, Mass.

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Command Sgt. Maj. William Ferland, outgoing state command sergeant major of the New Hampshire Army National Guard, gives a farewell speech during his retirement ceremony June 8, 2025, at the Edward Cross Training Complex in Pembroke. Photo by Pfc. Makayla Panzer, 114th PAD.

It Was Always About The Soldiers

By NHNG Public Affairs | June 12, 2025

William Ferland joined the New Hampshire Army National Guard in 1984 to become a welder. On a hazy drill Sunday more than four decades later, he retired as the state command sergeant major.

Soldiers from the 12th Civil Support Team, New Hampshire National Guard, transfer a notional victim to a decontamination line during a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response exercise April 9, 2025, at Storyland in Glen, N.H.

Far From a Fairy Tale

By Pvt. Josephine Malloy | May 5, 2025

On a cold, windy morning just after sunrise April 6, members of the 12th Civil Support Team zipped up their hazmat suits and donned protective masks in the abandoned parking lot of Storyland in Glen. The children and families who usually pack the fairy tale-inspired theme park had been safely evacuated as the specially trained New Hampshire Army and Air National Guardsmen prepared to respond to a chemical incident. The scenario was fictional, but the mission was anything but.

Sgt. Matthew Witcher, a fuel supply specialist with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment (MEDEVAC), NHARNG, builds a shelter during a search and rescue field training exercise April 12, 2025, at the Edward Cross Training Complex in Pembroke. Soldiers from the NHARNG company practiced building shelters during a final evasion tactics event.

Lost and Found

By Pfc. Makayla Panzer, 114th PAD | May 5, 2025

Despite an early spring snowstorm, soldiers from Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment (MEDEVAC) partnered with New England K-9 Search and Rescue for a joint training exercise April 12 at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Concord and the Edward Cross Training Complex in Pembroke.