Guard News - The National Guard

Guard, Reserve children need help in school
July 26, 2010 — WASHINGTON - Over the past year, I've spoken with many military families about the challenges they face, and a common issue is education for children from Guard and reserve families.These children...

Spouse jobs program to relaunch in October
July 26, 2010 — WASHINGTON - The Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts program will resume Oct. 25, but with some significant changes to the popular spouse employment program, a defense official announced...

New Jersey Airmen spend day at Panamanian school
July 26, 2010 — METETI, Panama - More than a dozen Airmen and Marines from Task Force New Horizons spent a day with local children building rubber-band airplanes and playing games July 12 at the elementary school in...

Spouse jobs program to relaunch in October
July 26, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - The Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts program will resume Oct. 25, but with some significant changes to the popular spouse employment program, a defense official announced...

Guard, Reserve children need help in school
July 26, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - Over the past year, I've spoken with many military families about the challenges they face, and a common issue is education for children from Guard and reserve families. These children...

Alaska trains with Kyrgyzstan search and rescue team
July 23, 2010 — CAMP DENALI, Alaska - The Alaska National Guard teamed up with a Kyrgyzstan Search and Rescue Team to train on procedures and techniques in mountain rescue this May on Mt. McKinley.The opportunity to...

Mississippi Guard complete air quality tests along coastline
July 23, 2010 — BILOXI, Miss., - The Mississippi National Guard on Friday found no abnormal readings after it completed monitoring the air quality this week at 20 different locations along the coastline in...

South Carolina National Guard unit builds relationships, infrastructure for Afghan people
July 22, 2010 — CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan - Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 178th Field Artillery are winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people by improving infrastructure in Kabul.Members of the civil...

Army, Air Guard adjust recruiting goals
July 22, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Both the Army and Air National Guard missed their recruiting goals for June, however, recruiting activities were adjusted and those goals were intentionally missed as a way to keep...

Louisiana engineers reinforce land bridge at Thunder Bayou
July 21, 2010 — GRAND ISLE, La., - The Louisiana National Guard’s 527th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade, completes reinforcement work on a land bridge on Elmer’s Island, La., in support of the Deepwater...

Guardmembers help wounded warriors through turbulent water
July 20, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - With some trepidation, Douglass Rink rolls his kayak over and disappears under the water. He frees himself, emerges a short time later and assures his instructor, “I was a scuba...

Guard Soldiers, spouses discuss reintegration programs
July 19, 2010 — TUCSON, Ariz. - Guard and Reserve members, much like their active duty counterparts, deploy routinely in service to their country. When they do, spouses remain to take care of the household. For...

Chief, governors visit Guardsmen in Middle East
July 19, 2010 — CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan, - Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, and governors from five states visited National Guard Soldiers and Airmen throughout the Middle East last...

Seven miles of barrier guard Cameron Parish
July 16, 2010 — HOLLY BEACH, La., - Soldiers from Louisiana National Guard’s 225th Engineer Brigade finished emplacing the first phase of a more than seven mile long Hesco barrier wall along the coast near Cameron,...

Louisiana Guard tops Myrtle Grove’s levees with 22,000 sandbags
July 16, 2010 — PINEVILLE, La., - Soldiers of the Louisiana Army National Guard's 528th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade, finished emplacing more than 22,000 sandbags in Myrtle Grove, La., July 16.The...

Air Guard invades Times Square today
July 15, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - Beginning today, the Air National Guard will be featured prominently at the crossroads of the world.Capt. Rondal Perry, the chief of ANG’s marketing and advertising branch, said two,...

Oklahoma Guard transports firewood to reservation
July 15, 2010 — RAPID CITY, S.D., - As quickly as the U.S. Forest Service felled trees here in the Custer National Forest of South Dakota, Soldiers of Oklahoma National Guard’s 1245th and 1345th Transportation...

Illinois Guardsman retires after 56 years
July 15, 2010 — SPRINGFIELD, Ill., - A young man working on a farm in Illinois decided to enlist in the National Guard in March 1953 after he received a challenge from his friend and employer. The Korean War's...

No more C-17s, defense officials tell Congress
July 15, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - The military has more than enough large transport planes, and the appropriation of any more in the next budget year will force some into premature retirement, Defense Department...

Iowa, Missouri ADTs link up for training
July 15, 2010 — CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., - The Iowa National Guard’s 734th Agri-Business Development Team and the Missouri National Guard’s ADT IV are joining forces here to prepare for their deployment to adjacent...

Ohio Guard Boosts Medical Skills While Providing No-Cost Care

Idaho Guard Strengthens Engineering Skills in Canada

Puerto Rico Guard Distributes One Million Gallons of Water in Drought Response

Guardsmen Boost Domestic Response Capabilities in Patriot 26

Washington Guard Strengthens Fiscal Readiness