Guard News - The National Guard

Air Guard marks training center's 40th anniversary
August 1, 2008 — ARLINGTON, Va. - The Air National Guard celebrated the 40th anniversary of its Training and Education Center (TEC) at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tenn., July 30-31 with several events that...

South Dakota wraps up engineer missions in Suriname
August 1, 2008 — PARAMARIBO, Suriname - Suriname citizens may not recognize the De Nieuwe Grond Clinic thanks to 210 Soldiers from the South Dakota Army National Guard participating in Beyond the Horizon 2008.A...

Air Guard medics cast off for Continuing Promise
August 1, 2008 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Eight Air National Guard medical technicians boarded the USS Kearsarge in Norfolk, Va., Friday to participate in the second phase of Continuing Promise 2008, a four-month humanitarian...

New York agencies partner to help returning Soldiers
August 1, 2008 — ALBANY, N.Y. (Army News Service) - Starting today, citizen Soldiers here will now receive mental health screening thanks to a new partnership between the New York State Division of Veterans Affairs,...

Down-range Soldiers: Life as mentors for the Afghan National Police
August 1, 2008 — CAMP AIRBORNE, WARDAK PROVINCE - Like their brothers assigned to Embedded Training Teams (ETTs) for the Afghan National Army, members of Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix serving on Police Mentoring...

Texas National Guard medics help South Texas communities in Operation Lone Star
July 30, 2008 — CAMP MABRY, Austin, Texas - Texas National Guard personnel had to dodge flooded streets, downed power lines and trees after Hurricane Dolly to begin Operation Lone Star, but they are in place and the...

JTF sentinel mission becomes 'wait and see'
July 30, 2008 — MATHER AIRFIELD, Calif. - Since the California fires began June 21, Army and Air National Guard aircrews have flown continuously, supporting the massive fire fighting operation.At the height of the...

Active, Guardmembers give back to disabled vets
July 30, 2008 — OMAHA, Neb. - As disabled veterans tested their limits during the National Disabled Veterans Wheelchair Games, which wrapped up here yesterday, nearly 400 military volunteers provided the...

'Noble Resolve' experiment tests emergency-response communications
July 30, 2008 — WASHINGTON - Defense Department agencies as well as state and local emergency-preparedness organizations in Virginia, Oregon, Colorado and Indiana are honing their communication and coordination...

Awards program strives to improve Army Guard installations
July 30, 2008 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Installations are among the things that Army National Guard Soldiers take for granted. They are like the uniforms, the morning formations and the noon meals that are part of the...

Guard capability tears down communications walls between first responders
July 30, 2008 — ARLINGTON, Va. - A National Guard capability can rapidly bridge communications gaps between first responders to domestic incidents, senior defense officials saw during a hands-on demonstration at the...

New Mexico flood victims look to the skies for help
July 30, 2008 — SANTA FE, N.M. - New Mexico Army National Guard aviators put their hoist training to the test not once, not twice, but 57 times on July 27 after Tropical Depression Dolly caused flooding in the high...

Maintenance: 'Heartbeat' of JTF Sentinel's flying mission
July 30, 2008 — MATHER AIR FIELD, Calif. - For nearly a month, aircraft from the California National Guard and 14 other states have continuously battled the fires raging in different parts of the state with great...

Georgians train 'Georgians' to save lives in combat
July 29, 2008 — VAZIANI MILITARY BASE, Tbilisi, Georgia - In the world of the combat medic, the "golden hour" is the time that he has to triage, stabilize and get a wounded comrade off the battlefield and into the...

Families tied by war: Sisters pilot Afghan skies
July 29, 2008 — BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - They never planned on being pilots and Afghanistan was the last place they expected to see each other, but that's just what happened for two sisters from White Salmon,...

California Guard rescues nation's largest Ponderosa Pine
July 29, 2008 — HAYFORK, Calif. - California National Guard's Task Force Pick came to the rescue when the wild fires here in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest threatened our nation's tallest Ponderosa Pine tree...

ARNG Soldier writes contest's top country song
July 29, 2008 — WASHINGTON - A Marine in Fallujah pens a song about standing watch. A sailor stationed in Hawaii scribbles a lullaby for his son while in the Iraqi desert. A soldier raps into a tape recorder to...

Air Force communications support aids fight against California fires
July 29, 2008 — HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. - When California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently called on several Air National Guard units to help fight wildfires, one of those units, the 149th Combat...

Exercise Helps Partner Nations Overcome Cultural Barriers
July 28, 2008 — WASHINGTON - A training exercise in the country of Georgia is helping partner nations overcome language and cultural barriers to work together more effectively in combat situations, a U.S. official...

After the storm: Hurricane Dolly brings out the Texas Guard
July 28, 2008 — Texas military forces help residents of the Rio Grande Valley recover after hurricane DollyRAYMONDVILLE, Texas - Residents of Rio Grande Valley are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Dolly after...

New PSYWAR Course Strengthens Guard Capabilities

Idaho Guard Strengthens Wildland Firefighting Capabilities

West Virginia Air Guard Trains for Complex Trauma Response

Connecticut Guard Strengthens Engineering Skills in Alaska

Montana Guard Chinook Crew Returns From Washington Wildfire Mission