Guard News - The National Guard

North Dakota Guard prepares for possible spring flood
February 23, 2010 — BISMARCK, N.D., - The North Dakota National Guard recently spent three days responding to a simulated flood.It's a comprehensive training exercise for a scenario that could potentially become a...

Alaska Air Guardsmen train Guam maintainers on KC-135
February 23, 2010 — EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - Alaska Air National Guardsmen from the 168th Air Refueling Wing flew to Andersen Air Base in Guam Feb. 14 to train Guardsmen there on KC-135 aircraft maintenance...

New York families prepare for homecoming
February 23, 2010 — LATHAM, N.Y., - Families of the New York Army National Guard's 206th Military Police Company marked the mid-point of their Soldiers' deployment to Iraq Feb. 20 with a meeting designed to help them...

Pennsylvania Airman chosen for Tops in Blue
February 23, 2010 — PITTSBURGH, - When asked during the panel interview for Tops in Blue, how she would handle a diva, Airman First Class Lisa Weiss answered: "Flatter the diva.""Doesn't that get old?" they asked."For...

Rohbock wants 'four great runs' in bobsled
February 23, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - Sgt. Shauna Rohbock is not ready for what she isabout to experience in the women's bobsledding event tonight and tomorrow atthe Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia,...

West Virginia Guard still helping snowbound communities
February 23, 2010 — MARTINSBURG, W.V., - More than a week after the last of twoback-to-black blizzards pounded the Eastern Panhandle, the West VirginiaNational Guard is still assisting hard hit communities.Stay Behind...

Task force vows sharper focus on Soldier suicides
February 23, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - The number of suspected soldier suicides increased for the first month of this year, and the Army's head of suicide prevention vowed today to sharpen the focus on combating the...

Teela finishes 29th in 15K, prepares for final event
February 23, 2010 — WHISTLER, British Columbia, - Biathlete Sgt. Jeremy Teela of the Vermont National Guard battled illness to finish 29th in the Olympic men's 15-kilometer mass start Feb. 21 at Whistler Olympic Park...

VFW provides airline tickets to Haiti
February 23, 2010 — Kansas City, Mo., - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is providing U.S. service members — with relatives currently located in Haiti — with the funds necessary to purchase airline tickets to the...

Wyoming Airmen plan medical exercise with Tunisia
February 23, 2010 — RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany, - A group of Tunisian officers traveled here Jan. 20-25 to work with U.S. Air Forces Africa on preparations for an upcoming medical exercise focusing on potential response...

Every day is a snow day in Antarctica
February 22, 2010 — Staff Sgt. Michael Warn is an Electrical/Environmental specialist on C/LC-130H aircraft and is stationed at the 109th Airlift Wing, Stratton Air National Guard Base, Scotia, New York. Sgt. Warn's...

Generals discuss Guard, Reserve, on call Air Force
February 22, 2010 — ORLANDO, Fla., - Two Air Force generals explained the importance of the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard to the on-call Air Force during the Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium and...

Georgia Guard mentors achieve counter-IED milestone
February 22, 2010 — MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan - On a long, dusty road littered with potholes and winding ruts, one Afghan National Army unit came into its own by conducting its first ever route-clearing...

Holcomb leads Team USA in Olympic bobsled event
February 22, 2010 — WHISTLER, British Columbia - Former Utah National Guard bobsled driver Steven Holcomb finished sixth in the two-man Olympic Bobsled competition late today and said he looks forward to the upcoming...

Minnesota Guard trains Norwegian youths
February 22, 2010 — CAMP RIPLEY, Minn.,- A group of 60 Norwegian Home Guard youth, who arrived here on Feb. 12, enjoyed a week of intense Army training and finished off with a weekend of sightseeing and shopping in...

Army Guard asks states to validate eligibility for PDMRA
February 22, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - At the request of the Army National Guard, states are determining if thousands of Soldiers are entitled to receive extra money for serving long overseas deployments."The Army...

Retirement conference to eliminate communication disconnect
February 22, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - To jumpstart the flow of information between the National Guard Bureau and the states on retirement services, the Soldier Family Support and Services branch will convene March 1-5 in...

Military eases thumb drive, flash media bans
February 22, 2010 — WASHINGTON, - New guidelines from U.S. Strategic Command officials allow servicemembers to use "thumb drives" and other flash media to store computer data under specific circumstances.Strategic...

Soldiers to get new uniform for Afghanistan
February 22, 2010 — WASHINGTON - Starting this summer, Soldiers sent to fight in Afghanistan will wear an Army Combat Uniform with the "MultiCam" pattern instead of the standard-issue universal camouflage...

Air Guard scales back Haiti relief efforts
February 19, 2010 — ARLINGTON, Va., - The number of Air National Guard members supporting Operation Unified Response dropped to a little over 200 this week as Haitian authorities and nongovernmental organizations begin...

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