Guard News - The National Guard

Guard teams finish in top 15 of Best Ranger event
May 12, 2010 — FORT BENNING, Ga., - The Army National Guard made a strong showing in the 27th annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition here last weekend, with three teams competing against the active duty...

DoD to study Guard compensation, incentives
May 12, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - Defense Department officials today announced the start of the congressionally mandated 11th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation.The review's focus, officials said, will be on...

Alaska Guard rescues infant in respiratory failure
May 12, 2010 — CAMP DENALI, Alaska - The Alaska Army National Guard's 207th Aviation, based out of Bethel, was tasked by the 11th Rescue Coordination Center to support a medical evacuation mission of a...

Louisiana Guard continues to push in Grand Isle
May 12, 2010 — GRAND ISLE, La., - The Louisiana National Guard is conductingaround-the-clock operations to fill in a breach near Grand Isle, La., insupport of operations related to the oil spill off the coast of...

81st CST practices air load at Minot
May 12, 2010 — MINOT, N.D., - North Dakota's 81st Civil Support Team (CST) dispatched personnel and equipment though blustery winds to Minot Air Force Base May 5, to practice air load operations onto a C-17...

Partnership offers new options with C-130 training
May 12, 2010 — WASHINGTON - The secretary of the Air Force announced May 4 that officials will proceed with a plan to augment the C-130 Hercules training fleet with C-130s from Air National Guard and Air Force...

VA officials cutting insurance premiums for families
May 11, 2010 — WASHINGTON - Department of Veterans Affairs officials announced here that military members insuring their families under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, which is administered by the VA, will...

Louisiana Guard begins filling breaches
May 11, 2010 — BATON ROUGE, La., - The Louisiana National Guard began fillingone of five breaches by dropping large sandbags airlifted by UH-60 Blackhawkhelicopters into the gaps near Port Fourchon, La., May 10."We...

DoD officials authorize medal for Haiti relief efforts
May 11, 2010 — RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas - Department of Defense officials have approved the Humanitarian Service Medal for personnel assigned to Operation Unified Response who directly participated in...

Guard teams finish in top 15 of Best Ranger event
May 11, 2010 — FORT BENNING, Ga., - Army National Guard teams from North Carolina and Rhode Island finished 10th and 14th, respectively, in the 27th annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger competition held at Fort...

Guardsman, referee sees it all in international rugby
May 11, 2010 — CAMP ATTERBURY JOINT MANEUVER TRAINING CENTER, Ind., - Heavy breathing, pounding hearts and screams of pride and anguish could be heard as 30 elite warriors, literally, servicemembers from across the...

North Dakota Guard helps students 'Stay on Track'
May 11, 2010 — BISMARCK, N.D., - For teachers looking for help educating their students on real life experiences and instilling healthy choices, lessons in goal setting, and building good decision making skills...

TRICARE launches one-stop information portal for Guard
May 10, 2010 — FALLS CHURCH, Va. - National Guard and Reserve members who may not live near a military treatment facility or TRICARE Service Center no longer have to rely on printed publications as a main source of...

Dog tags connect families to loved ones
May 10, 2010 — KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - "With love from Dad. U.S. Army. Afghanistan. 2010."Soldiers in the 135th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, mothers as well as fathers, had the opportunity to send a...

Louisiana Guard delivers oil booms to Amelia
May 10, 2010 — NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana National Guard's 1084th TransportationCompany, 165th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, delivered boom materialto Amelia, La., this morning in support of operations...

Soldiers train on Bambi bucket to fight fires in Kosovo
May 10, 2010 — GJAKOVA/DJAKOVICA, Kosovo, - Multinational Battle Group Eastaviation Soldiers carried the water, literally, as they tested theirfirefighting skills recently at Lake Radonjicko.The training took place...

Louisiana Guard engineers fill in breach
May 10, 2010 — GRAND ISLE, La., - Soldiers from the Louisiana Army NationalGuard's 922nd Horizontal Engineer Company, 769th Engineer Battalion,bulldozed sand to close the gap between two peninsulas here May 7.The...

Louisiana Guard builds bridge for oil spill boom distribution
May 10, 2010 — NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana National Guard's 205th EngineerBattalion constructed an improved ribbon bridge to be used in support ofoperations related to the oil spill in St. Bernard Parish May 6.About...

Kentucky ADT mobilizes for Afghanistan
May 10, 2010 — FRANKFORT, Ky., - Maj. Gen. Edward W. Tonini, adjutant general for Kentucky, joined hundreds of friends and family today in saying farewell to more than 60 members of the Kentucky National Guard's...

Maine Guard conducts its first ever air assault in Afghanistan
May 10, 2010 — PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, - Afghan national security forces and Soldiers with Company B, 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment of the Maine National Guard conducted their first ever combat air...

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