Guard News - The National Guard

Gates: 'Bait-and-switch' pulled on reserve components?
March 12, 2010 — A U.S. MILITARY BASE IN SOUTHWEST ASIA - The recently releasedrequest for proposals for the Air Force's next-generation tanker aircraft wasfair, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here March 11,...

Alaska Army Guard partners with Coast Guard to save hiker
March 12, 2010 — CAMP DENALI, Alaska - The Alaska Army National Guard and CoastGuard teamed up March 10 to help rescue a 28-year-old hiker stranded withoutfood for days on Meade Glacier near Haines, Alaska.The 11th...

Renuart: Guard vital to U.S. Northern Command mission
March 12, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - The National Guard is critical to U.S. NorthernCommand's mission, the combatant commander told a congressional committee onThursday."National Guard and Reserve forces are critical to...

Tavares reflects on golden Olympic memories
March 12, 2010 — WHISTLER, British Columbia - U.S. Army World Class Athlete Programbobsled coach Sgt. Bill Tavares was the man behind Team USA's athletes asthey blasted off the starting block throughout the 2010...

Employment program to resume for enrolled spouses
March 11, 2010 — WASHINGTON - The Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts program, commonly known as MyCAA, will resume March 13 for the more than 136,000 spouses who already have established an account, the...

Sharing medical ideas during Botswana workshop
March 11, 2010 — GABORONE, Botswana - Lt. Col. Rick Vatt, an officer from the North Carolina Air National Guard and U.S. Army Africa's Maj. Terry Clark and Sgt. 1st Class Roddy Rieger spent the last week of January...

Guardsman earns bronze star with 'V' device
March 11, 2010 — WASHINGTON - A Soldier being treated at Walter Reed for wounds sustained in Afghanistan received the Bronze Star Medal with "V" Device during a ceremony here in Doss Memorial Hall Feb. 26.Spc...

Chief visits Washington Guard facilities
March 11, 2010 — CAMP MURRAY, Wash., - The Washington National Guard welcomed Gen.Craig R. McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau here on Wednesday.During his visit, McKinley was briefed by several key...

Colorado Army Guard provides disaster relief to quake-ridden country
March 11, 2010 — CENTENNIAL, Colo., - The task of rapidly transporting small groups of people to remote places of the world is no problem at all for one particular Colorado Army National Guard unit.The COARNG's...

National Guard announces media contest winners
March 11, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - Judges waded through a record-setting number of entries in the National Guard's annual media contest this year, which included more than 700 print stories and about 140 broadcast...

Employment program to resume for enrolled spouses
March 11, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - The Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts program, commonly known as MyCAA, will resume March 13 for the more than 136,000 spouses who already have established an account, the...

Georgia Guardsmen on the Pakistan border
March 11, 2010 — DAND PATAN, Afghanistan - Combat Outpost Dand Patan clings to the side of a hill about 200 yards from the Pakistan Border."You can throw a rock and hit Pakistan," said 1st Lt. Timothy Moran, executive...

U.S. Navy builds new Guam readiness center
March 11, 2010 — SANTA RITA, Guam, - Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas awarded a $18.4 million firm-fixed-price contract March 10 to dck pacific guam LLC of Barrigada Guam for the design and construction...

Indiana firefighter protects base, Airmen
March 11, 2010 — SOUTHWEST ASIA - With the alarm sounding and 60 seconds on the clock, Senior Airman Joshua Wolff must be fully geared and heading to the truck to leave the station.As a crash and fire rescue...

Airman joins President in Rose Garden ceremony
March 11, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - President Barack Obama recognized nine military members along with other federal, state and nongovernment relief workers here today for their service to earthquake-ravaged Haiti."Today I...

Texas trains with Czech public affairs officers
March 11, 2010 — AUSTIN, Texas - Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell once said, "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds."For the military public affairs...

Utah Airmen among first military responders to Chilean earthquake
March 11, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - First they feared for their own lives, then Utah Air National Guardmembers helped others as a training mission in Chile took a no-notice turn to humanitarian relief.Air Force Lt...

Support helps children cope with deployments
March 10, 2010 — WASHINGTON - Children with a strong nondeployed parent or caregiver and a solid support system have a better ability to cope with deployments, two recent studies have shown.Anita Chandra, a behavioral...

National Guard program boosts Africa Command, Ward sa
March 10, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va. - The National Guard's State Partnership Program is a superb tool for Africa Command, the combatant commander told a congressional committee on Tuesday."The benefits … are many and...

Georgia CBRNE unit participates in Florida exercise
March 10, 2010 — NAVAL AIR STATION JACKSONVILLE, Fla., - More than 200 Soldiers and Airmen of Kennesaw's Joint Task Force 781 (JTF), their Florida Guard counterparts and the naval hospital and Navy Region Southeast...

Washington Guard Strengthens Fiscal Readiness

Kentucky Guard Prepares Incoming Command Teams for Leadership

New PSYWAR Course Strengthens Guard Capabilities

Idaho Guard Strengthens Wildland Firefighting Capabilities

West Virginia Air Guard Trains for Complex Trauma Response