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| ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 15, 2008 - Taking people to dry places became a top mission for National Guard troops after Hurricane Ike hammered Texas and Louisiana. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 15, 2008 - After two days of intense search-and-rescue missions, National Guard personnel in Texas and Louisiana are moving on to recovery operations. |
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| LAKE CHARLES, La., Sept. 15, 2008 - While more than 7,000 Louisiana National Guardsmen were activated to assist in hurricane recovery operations in Louisiana, an officer with the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team had the great satisfaction of taking part in the rescue of one of his own family members. |
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| BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 15, 2008 - Louisiana National Guardsmen have used high-water vehicles, boats and helicopters to save more than 330 flooding victims in the wake of Hurricane Ike.
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| GULF OF GONÂVES, Haiti, Sept. 15, 2008 - The amphibious ship USS Kearsarge delivered an estimated 114 metric tons of supplies as it continued its support to remote communities in Haiti hit by recent storms. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2008 - President Bush announced that he would be heading to Texas Tuesday to see the first-hand damages left by Hurricane Ike. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2008 - Search and rescue missions began immediately in areas of Texas left in Hurricane Ike’s trail and continue to be the main focus of relief efforts, a Texas National Guard spokesperson said. |
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| TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Sept. 13, 2008 - For the first time, military chaplains and the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster are collaborating their efforts to provide cohesive spiritual response to those affected by the next hurricane. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2008 - About 25 pararescuemen, combat controllers and support troops from the Kentucky Air Guard deployed to coastal Texas to conduct rescue operations for Hurricane Ike victims. |
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| LAKE CHARLES, La., Sept. 13, 2008 - As Hurricane Ike slammed ashore, the National Guard was already at work evacuating stranded citizens from their homes and other locations across Southwest Louisiana. |
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| HACKBERRY, La., Sept. 13, 2008 - Louisiana National Guard personnel helped evacuate three families stranded in their homes by flooding caused by Hurricane Ike. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2008 - Federal and State response forces have begun what Texas Gov. Rick Perry is calling the largest search and rescue ever in his state as more than 100,000 residents are estimated to have ignored Hurricane Ike evacuation warnings.
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| MOFFETT FEDERAL AIRFIELD, Calif., Sept. 13, 2008 - California Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing rescued eight people in Galveston, Texas. The air guardsmen deployed to Kelly Field in San Antonio for Hurricane Ike search and rescue support operations.
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| MYRTLE GROVE, La., Sept. 13, 2008 - On the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, soldiers and airmen of the Louisiana National Guard assisted Plaquemines Parish by sandbagging a levee that protects Highway 23, the main artery for entering and exiting Plaquemines Parish, as a precaution against Hurricane Ike’s storm surge. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2008 - In an effort to prevent looting of area residents’ property and local businesses, Louisiana National Guardsmen began patrolling the waters along the north shore of Grand Isle, La. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2008 - The Lone Star State's National Guard commander vowed to resume relief missions as soon as Hurricane Ike vents its anticipated fury on the Houston region sometime Saturday. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va. , Sept. 12, 2008 - Although Hurricane Ike is expected to lose power after hitting Texas tonight, National Guardsmen in four other states are preparing for the worst when it becomes a tropical storm later this weekend. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2008 - With Hurricane Ike forecast to make landfall tonight or early tomorrow on the Texas coast, the Defense Department already is assisting civilian agencies. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va. , Sept. 12, 2008 - When Mother Nature strikes, combat vehicles become "high-water vehicles" essential to the mission of rescuing people from flood waters.
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| KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss., Sept. 12, 2008 - Citizen-airmen of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, charged with flying directly into the eye of nature's most powerful storms, are conducting around-the-clock flights into Hurricane Ike to give forecasters the best possible data. |
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| JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 11, 2008 - About 100 Mississippi Army National Guard soldiers of deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help local authorities as they deal with rising flood waters in two counties. |
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| ABOARD USS KEARSARGE AT SEA, Sept. 11, 2008 - The USS Kearsarge continues to provide disaster relief to remote areas of Haiti hit hardest by this season's tropical storms and hurricanes. |
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| BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 11, 2008 - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has directed National Guard troops to prepare for Hurricane Ike. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 10, 2008 - The Texas National Guard began evacuating special-needs patients from the Corpus Christi area in advance of Hurricane Ike. |
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| GULF OF GONAVE, Haiti, Sept. 10, 2008 - Relief efforts like the one the USS Kearsarge is performing in Haiti are a core mission for U.S. forces in U.S. Southern Command, said a U.S. Navy admiral during a visit to the amphibious ship. |
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| ABOARD USS KEARSARGE AT SEA, Sept. 10, 2008 - The USS Kearsarge has been delivering supplies to sections of Haiti hit by tropical storms Fay, Gustav and Hanna and Hurricane Ike. |
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| KEY WEST, Fla., Sept. 9, 2008 - Members of the Florida Army National Guard helped local law enforcement officers avert what could have been a disaster for some people ignoring safety warnings as Hurricane Ike passed to the south of Key West, Fla.. |
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| CAMP MABRY, Texas, Sept. 9, 2008 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has authorized the call-up of up to 7,500 Texas soldiers and airmen in response to the threat Hurricane Ike -- over Cuba and heading west – poses to the Gulf Coast. |
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| KEY WEST, Fla., Sept. 9, 2008 - With Hurricane Ike churning across Cuba, Florida National Guard Special Forces teams patrol Key West, Fla., helping city workers identify potential areas where water and wind damage from the massive storm could pose a danger. |
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| OKEECHOBEE, Fla., Sept. 8, 2008 - As Hurricane Ike moved westward toward Cuba, the National Guard prepared and emergency management officials cautioned Key West and South Florida residents to track the storm.
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