Guard News - The National Guard

California Guard members at home on Border Patrol's range
July 26, 2006 — SAN DIEGO - When the U.S. Border Patrol officials needed range safety officers to help agents qualify with their weapons, they turned to the California National Guard.Guard members are supporting... MORE

ARPC conducts muster
July 25, 2006 — DENVER - The Air Reserve Personnel Center’s Personnel Readiness Center conducted a muster here yesterday for 57 individual ready reservists.The IRR Muster Program, mandated by Title 10 United States... MORE

DoD Announces Certification for WMD-CST Teams in Four States
July 25, 2006 — The Department of Defense notified Congress yesterday that Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams (WMD-CST) have been certified for four states.These teams are fully ready to assist civil... MORE

Air National Guard Ready, Relevant Force, Director Says
July 24, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The Air National Guard is an integral part of the National Guard force and is transforming to better meet its dual roles of assisting in homeland defense and contributing to the global... MORE

Guard, Reserve Members Relate Insights, Experiences
July 24, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Three reserve-component members related their insights and experiences from service in the war on terror to a congressionally chartered committee in San Antonio on July 19.Army National... MORE

Guard Bureau chief praises NAACP for making National Guard better
July 21, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The chief of the National Guard Bureau thanked the NAACP on July 18 for its help in recruiting minorities and for making the National Guard a better organization.LTG H Steven Blum made... MORE

LTG H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, displays the Meritorious Service Award that he received from the NAACP in Washington on July 18. The National Guard is better prepared today than ever before, Blum said during the NAACP's annual Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Awards Dinner.

West Virginia Air Guard unit jump starts medical care
July 20, 2006 — PLAYAS, N.M. – A former medical clinic is rising like a phoenix after years of neglect in this abandoned New Mexico borderland town as a group of West Virginia Air Guard members establish medical... MORE

A West Virginia Air National Guard member, not identified for security reasons, helps set up a medical clinic in the abandoned company town of Playas in isolated southwest New Mexico. The clinic will be used to treat personnel participating in Operation Jump Start, the National Guard's support to the Customs and Border Patrol.

52nd WMD
July 19, 2006 — CHILLI COTHE, Ohio – Soldiers and Airmen of the Columbus-based 52nd Weapons of Mass Destruction, Civil Support Team (WMD CST) passed a mandatory evaluation during a training exercise in Chillicothe... MORE

Members of the 52nd weapons of Mass Destruction, Civil Support Team don their protective chemicals suits.

Guard members bring civilian skills to Jump Start
July 18, 2006 — DEL RIO, Texas – The National Guard has kept Cpl. Rhett Saunders employed since high school, and that is just fine with the young man from Texas.Soon after returning from a year of force protection... MORE

This Texas Army National Guard Soldier gets to wear civilian clothes to prevent wear and tear on his military uniforms while caring for U.S. Border Patrol horses during the year he is serving with Operation Jump Start. Termite is one of his charges at the Del Rio Station in Texas. Border Patrol agents ride horses into areas unsuitable for vehicles. The National Guard is helping the Border Patrol secure the U.S. border with Mexico.

National Guard ahead of schedule for Operation Jump Start
July 17, 2006 — LAREDO, Texas – The National Guard troops flowing to the Southwest border are highly visible to drivers at an Interstate 35 inspection station north of this Texas border town as Soldiers assist Border... MORE

A Texas National Guard Soldier, who is not being identified for security reasons, welds a gun cage for the Border Patrol at the Laredo North Station in the Laredo Sector. The Soldier, a Hurricane Katrina refugee who made a new home in Texas, volunteered to serve in Operation Jump Start for a year. The National Guard is helping the Border Patrol secure the U.S. border with Mexico.

Blum: Army Guard Enjoying Big Recruiting Successes
July 14, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The Army National Guard is experiencing its biggest and longest-running recruiting success since the end of the draft, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told Pentagon reporters... MORE

National Guard, Border Patrol working as a team
July 12, 2006 — NEAR RADAR HILL, N.M. – Three men scurry around mesquite bushes in the open desert near the United States’ border with Mexico at about 10:45 on a mid-June night.The New Mexico desert just north of the... MORE

National Guard Bureau chief to address NAACP convention
July 11, 2006 — WASHINGTON – The chief of the National Guard Bureau will address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People two times next week.LTG H Steven Blum will speak on July 17 and again on... MORE

Servicemembers Achieve American Citizenship in Iraq
July 4, 2006 — CAMP VICTORY, Iraq - For soldiers like Army Spc. Guillermo Paniagua, a nuclear, chemical and biological specialist with Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, enlisting into the Army meant... MORE

Pace Thanks Troops, Families in Independence Day Interviews
July 4, 2006 — CAMP VICTORY, Iraq - For soldiers like Army Spc. Guillermo Paniagua, a nuclear, chemical and biological specialist with Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, enlisting into the Army meant... MORE

America Supports You: Florida Moms Help 'Cell Phones for Soldiers'
July 3, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Two teens' ongoing effort to help deployed servicemembers communicate with their loved ones back home inspired the Orlando-Conway, Fla., chapter of International Moms Club to donate... MORE

America Supports You: Baseball's Nationals Honor Armed Forces
July 3, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals honored members of the U.S. armed forces yesterday during pre-game festivities that highlighted the organization's annual military... MORE

New York gets assist from Pennsylvania
June 30, 2006 — WALTON, NY - Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion worked alongside residents here to help bring relief from catastrophe wrought by flooding in late June.In New... MORE

Guard provides rescue, recovery during northeast floods
June 30, 2006 — WALTON, NY - Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion worked alongside the residents here to help bring relief from the catastrophe wrought by the flooding of the town... MORE

NYS Governor George E. Pataki surveys the flood damage to New York's Southern Tier with Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Taluto, The Adjutant General for the New York National Guard. Approximately 350 New York National Guard Soldiers responded for evacuations and rescues during the late June flooding. Engineer Soldiers continue to provide recovery assistance in communities affected by the historic flood levels.

National Guard Units Respond to Flooding in Northeast
June 30, 2006 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - More than 1,000 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard were involved in water rescues, evacuations and other emergency operations during the past days as widespread... MORE

NGB Leaders Visit ’Top-notch’ Guardsmen in New Hampshire

Massachusetts Guard Civil Support Team Put to the Test

Alaska Air Guard, Coast Guard Rescue Pilot at Iliamna Lake

Idaho National Guard Trains with US, Indian Special Forces

New York Army National Guard Aviators Help Control Wildfire