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Nebraska Guard Infantry Trains on Survival Tactics
March 1, 2024
Soldiers with the Nebraska Army National Guard’s Company B, 2-134th Infantry (Airborne), conduct survival, evasion, resistance and escape training Feb. 3-4, 2024, at the Mead Training Site near Yutan, Nebraska. The 59 Soldiers were trained by six U.S. Air Force instructors from the 55th Operations Support Squadron from Offutt Air Force Base.
SERE, Nebraska National Guard Team up for Hoist Training
November 7, 2023
Airman 1st Class Bridger Michaud, 55th Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, is hoisted into a Nebraska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter along with a medic during hoist training Nov. 4, 2023. Company G, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 104th Regiment flew the helicopter from Lincoln to Offutt, enabling personnel from both units to carry out mandatory training.
Nebraska Army Guard, Alaska Air Guard Team Up for Training
October 3, 2023
Nebraska Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Kevin Nelson, right, assistant jumpmaster, inspects a parachute worn by Capt. Ben Jochum, 2-134th Infantry Battalion (Airborne) logistics officer, in preparation for a static line jump Sept. 29, 2023, in Lincoln, Neb. Twenty-eight paratroopers of the Nebraska Army National Guard's 2-134th Infantry Battalion (Airborne) completed the jump from a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard's 144th Airlift Squadron, 176th Wing.
Fallen Army Guard Sniper Honored in Memorial Competition
March 1, 2023
Spc. Chris Horton, a sniper with 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma Army National Guard, in Paktia, Afghanistan, in 2011. He died in an ambush Sept. 9, 2011.
Nebraska Guard Conducts TOW Missile System Training Exercise
December 27, 2022
Soldiers with the Nebraska Army National Guard 1-134th Cavalry Squadron and 2-134th Infantry Battalion set up tripods before a TOW Missile System training exercise at Fort Riley, Kansas, Dec. 13, 2022. The unit was given 32 missiles and each Soldier was able to shoot at least twice.
Nebraska Training Center Command Hosts Heartland Fury
September 7, 2022
Company command teams across the Nebraska Army National Guard attend Operation Heartland Fury at the Camp Ashland and Mead training sites, Nebraska, Aug. 27, 2022. The event, hosted by Training Center Command, 209th Regional Training Institute, demonstrated the capabilities available to support all of Nebraska’s units.
‘Keep Truckin’: Army National Guard Finds its Best Warriors
August 1, 2022
Spc. Daniel Reading, an infantryman with the Maryland Army National Guard’s D Company, 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, secures an area during the tactical combat casualty care event at the Army National Guard’s 2022 Best Warrior Competition at Volunteer Training Site-Milan, Tennessee, July 26, 2022.
Nebraska Guard recognized for protecting whooping crane
March 31, 2022
Col. Brent Flachsbart, Nebraska Army National Guard construction and facilities maintenance officer, and Lawrence Vrtiska, environmental program manager for the Nebraska Military Department, outside Army Aviation Support Facility #1 in Lincoln, Neb., March 1, 2022. The Nebraska Army National Guard was awarded 1st place for Natural Resources Management (Individual/Team) in the 2022 Secretary of the Army Environmental Awards for its work with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Crane Trust to study endangered whooping crane behavior during their annual migration through central Nebraska.
134th Infantry’s lone WWII Medal of Honor recipient a ‘One Man Army’
March 24, 2022
Army Staff Sgt. Junior James Spurrier of Company G, 134th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II against the enemy at Achain, France, Nov. 13, 1944.
Nebraska Soldier recognized for lifesaving actions
March 23, 2022
Nebraska Army National Guard Sgt. Brittany West is awarded the Meritorious Service Medal at a ceremony conducted by Company A, 1st Battalion, 376th Aviation Regiment, at Campo Border Patrol Station in Pine Valley, California, March 15, 2022. West took emergency actions to revive a fellow Soldier who collapsed and had no discernible pulse Feb. 18,
Nebraska Guard helps restore Djibouti village water supply
January 7, 2022
Nebraska Army National Guard Sgt. Beau Heithoff, engineer specialist, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), installs a pipe coupling during a well-leak repair at Chabelley Village, Djibouti, Dec. 22, 2021. CJTF-HOA personnel at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, regularly work with government leaders and citizens on a variety of projects to promote stability in East Africa.
Nebraska Army Guard helps contain wildfire
June 25, 2021
Soldiers flying a Nebraska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter above the Spring Creek division of the Brush Creek fire drop water from a 2,000-gallon bucket June 25, 2021, in Holt County, Nebraska.
Army Guard command CWO reflects on 2 years in the position
September 23, 2020
Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Teresa A. Domeier, right, the command chief warrant officer of the Army National Guard, receives a briefing on the capabilities of the UH-72 Lakota helicopter from Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Jeff Caniglia, executive officer of the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 376th Aviation Regiment, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center's Hohenfels Training Area, Hohenfels, Germany. Domeier is the first woman to serve as the command chief warrant officer of the Army Guard.