Senior Airman Bryson Kondracki, 136th Medical Group, Texas Air National Guard, utilizes auto-refraction equipment to check the eye prescription of an Alabama resident at a Selma optometry clinic during the Innovative Readiness Training mission Alabama Car

Senior Airman Bryson Kondracki, 136th Medical Group, Texas Air National Guard, utilizes auto-refraction equipment to check the eye prescription of an Alabama resident at a Selma optometry clinic during the Innovative Readiness Training mission Alabama Care 2012 in Selma, Ala. Aug. 8, 2012. IRT Alabama Care 2012 is an Air National Guard led, multiservice mission comprised of active, reserve, and National Guard members from Army, Navy and Air Force components providing service members with readiness training while providing Alabama residents with free health services such as dental, optometry and medical screenings in the medically underserved and economically depressed community of Selma, Ala. Aug. 7-14, 2012. (National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Melissa E. Chatham/RELEASED)

Tech. Sgt. Erica Darnell, 136th Medical Group, Texas Air National Guard, utilizes auto-refraction equipment to check the eye prescription of an Alabama resident at a Selma medical clinic during the Innovative Readiness Training mission Alabama Care 2012 i

Tech. Sgt. Erica Darnell, 136th Medical Group, Texas Air National Guard, utilizes auto-refraction equipment to check the eye prescription of an Alabama resident at a Selma medical clinic during the Innovative Readiness Training mission Alabama Care 2012 in Selma, Ala. Aug. 8, 2012. IRT Alabama Care 2012 is an Air National Guard led, multiservice mission comprised of active, reserve, and National Guard members from Army, Navy and Air Force components providing service members with readiness training while providing Alabama residents with free health services such as dental, optometry and medical screenings in the medically underserved and economically depressed community of Selma, Ala. Aug. 7-14, 2012. (National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Melissa E. Chatham/RELEASED)

Tech. Sgt. Jacob Nugent, 123rd Medical Group, Kentucky Air National Guard, checks the blood pressure of an Alabama resident, while fulfilling his duties as medical staff noncommissioned officer in charge at a Selma medical clinic

Tech. Sgt. Jacob Nugent, 123rd Medical Group, Kentucky Air National Guard, checks the blood pressure of an Alabama resident, while fulfilling his duties as medical staff noncommissioned officer in charge at a Selma medical clinic during the Innovative Readiness Training mission Alabama Care 2012 in Selma, Ala. Aug. 8, 2012. IRT Alabama Care 2012 is an Air National Guard led, multiservice mission comprised of active, reserve, and National Guard members from Army, Navy and Air Force components providing service members with readiness training while providing Alabama residents with free health services such as dental, optometry and medical screenings in the medically underserved and economically depressed community of Selma, Ala. Aug. 7-14, 2012. (National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Melissa E. Chatham/RELEASED)

Brig. Gen. R. Scott Williams, Commander of the Air National Guard Readiness Center

Brig. Gen. R. Scott Williams, the commander of the Air National Guard Readiness Center, discusses his goals during an assumption of command ceremony after he assumed command of the ANGRC from Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, the director of the ANG, Aug. 7, 2012, at the ANGRC, Joint Base Andrews, Md. The ANGRC ensures ANG field units are properly resourced to train and equip in support of the state and federal missions across the entire spectrum of military operations and provide support sustaining ANG Airmen throughout their careers. (National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Marvin Preston/RELEASED)

Army Lt. Gen. Frank Grass

President Obama has nominated the deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command, Army Lt. Gen. Frank Grass, as the 27th chief of the National Guard Bureau

2012 Air National Guard Readiness Center Picnic

Members of the Air National Guard Readiness Center along with friends and family attended a summer picnic in Mount Vernon, Virginia on June 15, 2012. (National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Melissa E. Chatham)