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The headquarters for the Maine National Guard is at Camp Keyes in Augusta, Maine. The Adjutant General of Maine, Major General John W. ("Bill") Libby, commands the Maine National Guard and serves as the State's Commissioner of Defense, Veterans, and Emergency Management (DVEM).
As of 2006, the Maine Army National Guard had produced 200 "Flat Daddy" and "Flat Mommy" cutouts for the families of soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Maine program was started based on information received at a National Guard conference. The state's family-support director noted the enthusiastic response to the program, stating that "If there's something we can do to make it a little easier on the families, then that's our job and our responsibility. It brings them a little bit closer and might help them somewhere down the line."12
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- ^ MacQuarrie, Brian via The Boston Globe. "HE’S FLAT, BUT HE’S HOME: Life-size replicas comfort families of Guard members", San Francisco Chronicle, August 31, 2006. Accessed August 25, 2008.
- ^ "Sexual Harassment Scandal Forces Florida Representative Mark Foley To Resign; Thwarted Plot To Attack Inside Green Zone; 1st Cavalry Division Deployed to Iraq; Life-Size Pictures of Soldiers Help Families Back Home; Tips on Easing Pain Of Parent Sent To War; Destructive Squirrel on Texas Campus", CNN Newsroom, September 30, 2006. Accessed August 25, 2008.
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