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• Kentucky National Guard's 202nd Army Band Celebrates Armed Forces Day with Concert
  Friday, April 18, 2008
  On Armed Forces Day, May 17th, the Kentucky Army National Guard's 202nd Army Band will be playing a free concert at the Thomas D. Clark Center in Frankfort, Ky.
• Kentucky National Guard, Emergency Management prepared to respond to earthquake
  Friday, April 18, 2008
  Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and Adjutant General Edward W. Tonini are confident in the state's ability to respond to seismic disaster.
• World Premiere of the Award Winning Documentary highlighting the Soldiers of a Harrodsburg armory unit during World War II's Bataan Death March
  Wednesday, March 19, 2008
  The Kentucky National Guard will present an award-winning documentary on the Harrodsburg Tankers that endured the Bataan Death March of World War II on April 26, 2008.
• Kentucky Guard History efforts garner two awards
  Friday, March 07, 2008
  Two Kentucky National Guard history projects have been recognized by the Kentucky Historical Society and Historical Confederation of Kentucky.
• Carrollton based National Guard unit to return home from Afghanistan
  Wednesday, March 05, 2008
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Governor Steve Beshear will join hundreds of friends and family welcoming home more than 150 Kentucky Army National Guard Soldiers returning home from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan.
• Kentucky Air Guard assists USSOUTHCOM, USAID to airlift flood relief supplies to Ecuador
  Wednesday, March 05, 2008
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- In the midst of the largest disaster exercise ever conducted by the National Guard in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Air Guard has sent one of its C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft on an actual humanitarian relief mission to Ecuador.
• Kentucky National Guard Earthquake Exercise Attracts International Observers
  Monday, March 03, 2008
  FRANKFORT, Ky. – Two senior government officials from the South American nation of Ecuador will visit Kentucky this week to observe the earthquake response exercise being conducted by the Kentucky National Guard.
• Kentucky National Guard offers Earthquake Response Exercise Media Opportunities
  Monday, March 03, 2008
  FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky National Guard, in conjunction with federal, state and local emergency response agencies, is currently conducting its largest disaster emergency response exercise March 3-6, 2008. This exercise is based on a simulated 7.5 Richter-scale magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault and will combine Army and Air National Guard resources to test and validate the Guard’s emergency response capabilities. Exercise-related activities will primarily occur in the 24 Kentucky counties comprising Kentucky Division of Emergency Management Areas 1, 2 and 3 (Ballard, Calloway, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess, Fulton, Graves, Hancock, Henderson, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Todd, Trigg, Union, and Webster counties). Residents of these counties can expect to see increased military vehicle and aircraft (helicopter) traffic in their areas during this event.
• Kentucky National Guard hosts departure ceremony for troops departing for Afghanistan
  Thursday, February 28, 2008
  Ashland, Ky. -- The Kentucky Army National Guard will host a departure ceremony for the Soldiers of the 201st Engineer Battalion at 1 pm EST, March 1, at the Boyd County Middle School Gymnasium in Ashland, Ky.
• Kentucky Army Guard Military Police Company Mobilizes for Operation Iraqi Freedom
  Tuesday, February 19, 2008
  FRANKFORT, KY. -- Kentucky Adjutant General Edward W. Tonini today announced that the Kentucky Army National Guard's 223rd Military Police Company has mobilized in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A departure ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. EST Feb. 20, at the Thomas Jefferson Middle School Gymnasium, 1501 Rangeland Road in Louisville.
• Guardsmen stand ready during State of Emergency
  Friday, February 08, 2008
  The Kentucky National Guard continues to provide support in Western and South Central Kentucky following the deadly tornadoes that left a path of destruction across the Commonwealth in the late evening hours of Feb. 5 and early morning Feb. 6.
• Kentucky Guard still supporting storm response mission
  Friday, February 08, 2008
  FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky National Guard continues to support local and state agencies in the relief efforts currently taking place in Western and South Central Kentucky.
• Kentucky National Guard responds to severe storms emergency
  Friday, February 08, 2008
  FRANKFORT, Ky. -- By direction of Gov. Steve Beshear and under command of Maj. Gen. Edward W. Tonini, Adjutant General for Kentucky, more than 100 troops have been mobilized in response to last night's severe weather.
• Kentucky's Adjutant General Tonini receives second star
  Friday, January 18, 2008
  FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Governor Steve Beshear pinned Adjutant General Edward W. Tonini with his second star, signifying his promotion to the rank of major general, today, Jan. 17, 2008. Tonini, a Louisville resident, was appointed last month by Beshear to serve as the 52nd Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.