DENVER (2/13/12) – Army Medal of Honor recipient Salvatore Giunta was the guest of honor for the Colorado Avalanche’s Military Appreciation Night Feb. 10 at Pepsi Center.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (1/31/12) – Members of a key civic group toured Colorado National Guard facilities across the state and learned about some of the Colorado National Guard’s key missions Jan. 18.

ASPEN, Colo. (1/29/12) – The Colorado National Guard’s 8th Civil Support Team, combined with the Hawaii National Guard’s 93rd Civil Support Team, were on hand as first responders at the Winter X Games.

Colorado Army National Guard 1st Lt. Christopher Doerfler stands next to a non-descript truck and trailer against a backdrop of snow-covered mountain peaks half a mile from the site of the 2012 Winter X Games.

For some, jobs can be menial, boring, day-to-day duties that are worked solely to survive and stay afloat.

SNOWMASS, Colo. (1/27/12) – The U.S. Navy participated in the Winter X Games as one of the major sponsors in Aspen, Colo., Jan. 27.

SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. (1/25/12) – The Hawaii National Guard’s 93rd Civil Support Team joined the Colorado National Guard’s 8th Civil Support Team to train up on cold weather survival tactics.

SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. (1/25/12) – Colorado Army National Guard Special Forces Soldiers trained more than 25 Hawaii National Guard in essential tasks for extreme cold weather survival in here today.

On a pristine, sun-drenched morning near Snowmass ski area, Colorado and Hawaii National Guardsmen trained in more than three feet of snow, learning basic techniques and skills in order to survive in an extreme cold weather mountain environment.

For more than 100 years, the National Western Stock Show has brought western heritage, a horse show and the sport of professional rodeo to Denver.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (1/17/12 ) – The small western slope town of Montrose, Colo., welcomed home more than 75 members of the Colorado Army National Guard’s 928th Area Medical Support Company in grand fashion Jan. 13.

“With around 200 Soldiers in the company, we’re saving just under $7 per Soldier, which averages out to about $1,400 per drill that we’re saving on meals,” said Colorado Army National Guard Capt. Mark Tommell.

WASHINGTON (12/31/11) —The chief of the National Guard Bureau is a statutory member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

More than a schoolhouse, the High-altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site in Gypsum, Colo., is the home of some of the nation’s most experienced and dedicated search-and-rescue professionals. And they don’t need any special equipment to do it.

Since the Colorado’s High-altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site opened 26 years ago, it’s never had any injuries or fatalities. In June 2012, a new curriculum will be introduced, which will include a course for enlisted crew members.

Among the Army National Guard aviation schools, this one is considered to be the only graduate-level training course, providing life-saving combat aviation skills to pilots serving in Afghanistan and other mountainous regions around the globe.

WASHINGTON (12/23/11) – As children go to bed tomorrow with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, the staff at North American Aerospace Defense Command will be busy tracking Santa Claus’ global flight.

As the socially-inept oddball in the family, it’s always been important to extract my family’s heritage. Until recently, though, tracing the tree branches seemed an impossible task.