Guard News - The National Guard

West Virginia wing, FEMA test prepositioning program
May 20, 2010 — MARTINSBURG, W.Va., - Members of the West Virginia Air National Guard’s 167th Airlift Wing and Federal Emergency Management Agency held a joint inspection exercise here at the air base May 12 to...

North Dakota security forces attend Army combatives course
May 20, 2010 — MINOT, N.D., - More than 20 North Dakota active-duty and National Guard Airmen grappled under the tutelage of North Dakota Army National Guard Modern Army Combatives (MAC) program instructors at...

Missouri ADT tends the 'breadbasket' of Afghanistan
May 20, 2010 — NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, - During a typical day, members of Nangarhar Agribusiness Development Team can travel from green farmlands to sand-covered plains that seem as desolate as the...

Louisiana Guard's construction of shoreline barrier progresses
May 20, 2010 — VENICE, La., - The Louisiana National Guard's construction of theTiger Dam shoreline protection system near Venice, La., in the southwestpass of the Mississippi River Delta continues to move...

Army investigates complaints by Oregon Guardsmen
May 20, 2010 — JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash., - An inquiry launched May 17 by Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., I Corps commanding general, is investigating complaints from Oregon National Guard Soldiers that...

Winnefeld Takes NORAD, Northcom Reins
May 20, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - Navy Adm. James Winnefeld accepted command of U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates at Peterson Air Force Base,...

Ohio Army Guard wins Baldrige award
May 20, 2010 — COLUMBUS, Ohio, - The Ohio Partnership for Excellence (OPE) has awarded the 2010 Gold Level Achievement of Excellence to the Ohio Army National Guard for its outstanding organizational performance...

ANG Security Forces protect Ardent Sentry participants
May 19, 2010 — SAVANNAH COMBAT READINESS TRAINING CENTER, Ga., - While more than250 participants of Exercise Ardent Sentry 2010 are here honing their skillsto protect American citizens against threats from the air,...

Guard CBRNE Challenge Team wins Air Force-wide event
May 19, 2010 — FORT SMITH, Ark., - The Air National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Challenge Team took first place overall in last week's Air Force-wide CBRN competition held at the...

Car problems plague Earnhardt at Dover
May 19, 2010 — DOVER, Del. - Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event in Dover was a tough one for Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 National Guard Chevrolet.A suspected broken part translated into a mid-race...

National Guard never stops training for hurricane season
May 19, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - Although most hurricanes occur between the months of June and October, remaining prepared to respond to the after effects of a hurricane is almost a year-round task for the National...

National Guard releases new book about Hurricane Katrina
May 19, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - "In Katrina's Wake: The National Guard on the Gulf Coast, 2005," a book that chronicles the National Guard's involvement in the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history, has...

Utah Air Guard conducts chemical training With Moroccan counterparts
May 19, 2010 — AGADIR, Morocco - The Utah Air National Guard's 151st Expeditionary Medical Group kicked off two weeks of mutual medical training with their Moroccan counterparts as part of Exercise AFRICAN LION...

Minnesota, Ohio Guard prepare to deploy with partners
May 19, 2010 — HOHENFELS, Germany - In preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan with Hungarian Soldiers, Staff Sgt. Timothy Harmon has given himself a crash course in the language.Harmon and fellow...

Air National Guard names 2010 Youth of the Year
May 18, 2010 — CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Dakota C. Johnson, the son of Air Force 2nd Lt. Eric Johnson and Capt. Stephanie Johnson who are members of the North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Medical Group, was recently...

Louisiana Guard constructs water diversion system
May 18, 2010 — VENICE, La., - Soldiers of the Louisiana National Guard's 1023rdVertical Engineer Company, 528th Engineer Battalion continued laying outwater diversion system materials here in the southwest pass...

Louisiana Guard preserves coastal shoreline
May 18, 2010 — GRAND ISLE, La., - The connection between Soldiers of theLouisiana National Guard's 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company and thecommunity becomes even stronger as they work to prevent oil from...

Illinois Guard participates in medical exercise in Tunisia
May 18, 2010 — PEORIA, Ill., - Two Illinois National Guard Soldiers recently joined the Wyoming National Guard and Nevada Army Reserve for a joint training mission called Medlite-10 to Kharrouba Air Base in...

New York Guard hosts South African defense force chief
May 18, 2010 — LATHAM, N.Y., - South Africa's top general visited New York National Guard headquarters here Monday on the second day of a weeklong tour of American military headquarters.Gen. Godfrey Ngwenya, chief...

Texas ADT goes back to school
May 18, 2010 — GHAZNI PROVINCE. Afghanistan - Sanayee High School in Ghazni City invited the Texas Agribusiness Development Team back to school, May 3, to check up on a project designed to give students hands-on...

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

Kentucky Guard Prepares Incoming Command Teams for Leadership

New PSYWAR Course Strengthens Guard Capabilities