Posted by Don Veitch on January 6, 2011 at 23:27
LOWELL, Mass. – Spc. Vannek Pech, a radar operator with Battery E, (Target Acquisition Battery), 101st Field Artillery Regiment, Massachusetts National Guard, holds his newborn daughter Evelyn , with wife Leakhena Ian in the background, shortly after arriving at Lowell General Hospital here, Dec. 6 2010. Pech had just boarded a plane and was prepared to deploy when senior leaders pulled him off to rush him to be with his wife. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, Massachusetts National Guard Public Affairs)
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, Massachusetts National Guard
LOWELL, Mass. – Seventy deploying Soldiers filed from the bus that had brought them across the flight line to the waiting command group and the aircraft that would fly them from Hanscom Air Force Base to their mobilization site at Fort Bliss, Texas on Dec. 6, 2010.
The line snaked along with starts and stops as the Soldiers, apparently preoccupied with their own thoughts, hesitated briefly as they acknowledged the general and two command sergeants major waiting to wish them off as they reached the foot of the boarding stairs.
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Posted by Don Veitch on June 10, 2010 at 10:55
Brig. Gen. Sellars introduces Sheriff Cummings to the troops
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CAMP EDWARDS, Mass. – Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Sellars, commander of the Massachusetts Army National Guard and Barnstable County Sheriff James M. Cummings address members of the 972nd Military Police Company prior to the formal ceremony in which the Soldiers were Deputized June 8, 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, 65th Press Camp Headquarters)
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, 65th Press Camp Headquarters
CAMP EDWARDS, Mass. — More than 60 military police from the Massachusetts National Guard were deputized in an official swearing-in ceremony conducted at the Joint Visitors Information Bureau here, June 8, 2010.
The Soldiers from the 972nd Military Police Company, based out of Reading, are conducting law enforcement operations here in support of the eXportable Combat Training Capability, or XCTC, exercise and were sworn in by Barnstable County Sheriff James M. Cummings.
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Posted by Don Veitch on April 16, 2010 at 23:04
LITTLETON, Mass. - Industrial pumps transfer thousands of gallons of water per minute from spectacle pond to the opposite side of Route 119 here to alleviate flooding concerns while Massachusetts Department of Transportation employees work to repair damage from a collapsed culvert, April 8, 2010. Littleton emergency response officials borrowed several of the pumps from as far as Michigan and Pennsylvania to supplement the Massachusetts equipment on hand. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, 65th Press Camp Headquarters)
Story by Army Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, 65th Press Camp Headquarters
MILFORD, Mass. – Massachusetts National Guard photographers working with state and federal disaster response officials provided invaluable supporting documentation for the Commonwealth’s formal request for federal emergency funding during the recent flooding in Massachusetts.
Soldiers from the 65th Press Camp Headquarters, 1st Civil Support Team and the Joint Force Headquarters – Public Affairs Office accompanied representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency during preliminary damage assessment missions and provided photographic documentation of flood damage throughout the hardest hit communities in the Commonwealth.
The photos are intended be used to backup written assessments, said Bill Winn, a project specialist with FEMA. The photos could also be used for planning purposes during repair and mitigation projects, said Winn.
The Soldiers were among the more than 1200 Massachusetts National Guard Soldiers and Airmen called to state-active-duty to help combat the widespread flooding in eastern Massachusetts.
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