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Funding stops for tuition assistance; other benefit options may exist
March 11, 2013
Beginning March 8, 2013, funding for tuition assistance stopped and Soldiers cannot submit new requests for tuition assistance.
Lt. Gen. William Etter takes over reins of First Air Force
March 8, 2013
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. William H. Etter, right, passes the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region flag to U.S. Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, NORAD commander, during the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region-1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern) change of command ceremony.
Alaska National Guard members teach Mongolian forces about C-130 Hercules aircraft
March 8, 2013
Alaska Air National Guard members Lt. Col. David McPhetres, left, and Master Sgt. Pat McGrain, center, discuss C-130 operations and maintenance with Mongolian Maj. Enkhzorgol Baatarkhuu during an aviation maintenance exchange in in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, March 4, 2013.
Workshop helps Guard Soldiers leaving active duty hone job-hunting skills
March 8, 2013
Transition Assistance Program instructor Michele Lewis looks on as her class completes a group project about strengths and weaknesses of hiring a veteran during a workshop March 3, 2013. The class is required of returning veterans.
National Guard members in Delaware, New York and Virginia support snow relief
March 7, 2013
Soldiers from the Charlottesville-based Company C, 429th Brigade Support Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team work with Virginia officials to clear an abandoned vehicle March 6, 2013, near Nellysford, Va.
Montana Citizen-Airman named senior enlisted advisor to chief, National Guard Bureau
March 7, 2013
Air Force Command Chief Master Sgt. Mitchell Brush will be the next senior enlisted advisor to the chief of the National Guard Bureau.
Army Criminal Investigation Command warns of email scam, criminals posing as police
March 7, 2013
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Army releases new Soldier Record Brief for personnel and pay information
March 7, 2013
The Army is releasing a new version of the Soldier Record Brief.
New virtual reality simulator teaches Airmen how to fall
March 7, 2013
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Alex Butler of the 169th Airlift Squadron navigates the virtual skies in a parachute simulator at the 182nd Airlift Wing, Peoria, Ill., on March 4, 2013.
Maryland Guard partners with Bosnia for peace, security
March 6, 2013
Maryland National Guard members and their Bosnian counterparts joined forces in Kandahar.
South Carolina National Guard leaders visit Colombian military partners
March 6, 2013
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Livingston, Jr., the adjutant general of South Carolina, speaks with Colombian Army Maj. Gen. Jorge Salgado, army planning and transformation, in front of a Colombian army Mi-17 search and rescue helicopter, in Tolemaida, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2013.
Army, Air Guard units recognized for outstanding family support programs
March 5, 2013
Army Capt. Matthew Sadler, commander of the South Dakota Army National Guard's 842nd Engineer Company, shakes hands with John Hastings, principal deputy, assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs, while accepting the Department of Defense Reserve Family Readiness Award on behalf of his unit during a ceremony at the Pentagon, March 1, 2013.
Task force established to close gaps between active, Guard, Reserve
March 5, 2013
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Kentucky veterinarians extend training in Afghanistan
March 4, 2013
Capt. Chase Kohne of Kentucky's Agribusiness Development Team 5 speaks with local herders about how to care for their animals in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, January 2013.
Air National Guard’s first female military training instructor named NCO of the year
March 4, 2013
Technical Sgt. Leslie Cummings, the first and only female military training instructor in the Air National Guard, is also the first and only Air National Guard member to be named the Air University Noncommissioned Officer of the Year.
Missouri National Guard’s civil support team trains to respond to chemical, biological warfare
March 4, 2013
Missouri National Guard Staff Sgt. Matthew Loehr opens a sampling kit during an exercise at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
Texas National Guard members join Mexican comrades for international ceremony
March 1, 2013
Staff Sgt. Pedro Villareal (2nd from left), along with the color guard detail from 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, Texas Army National Guard, participate at the 2013 George Washington Birthday Celebration Parade in Laredo, Texas, Feb. 23, 2013.
Virginia ceremony to remember Airmen, Soldiers killed in 2001 plane crash
March 1, 2013
The Virginia Air National Guard's 203rd RED HORSE Squadron conducted a memorial service at the State Military Reservation March 3, 2011, to honor 18 unit members and three Florida Army Guard aviators who perished in a military transport crash 10 years ago.
Painting honoring Benedict Arnold finds new home in New York Military Museum
March 1, 2013
A detail from the mural "Benedict Arnold, Triumphant at Saratoga," by military artist George Gray, depicts the moment on Oct. 7, 1777, when American Gen. Benedict Arnold, despite an order from Gen. Horatio Gates confining him to quarters, led the Continental Army to victory during the Battle of Bemis Heights, a part of the larger Battle of Saratoga.
Florida's militia heritage remembered during Civil War battlefield visit
February 28, 2013
Florida Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Emmett Titshaw Jr. meets with Civil War re-enactors at the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park in north-central Florida, Feb.15, 2013.