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Oregon National Guard Stands up First-Ever Oregon Joint Task Force (Exercise Only)
October 17, 2007 — The Oregon National Guard has stood up Oregon's first-ever Joint Task Force (JTF) during the large multi-state, anti-terrorism training exercise known as TOPOFF 4, Oct. 16-19 at the Portland Air...

Oregon National Guard Participates in Global TOPOFF Exercise (Exercise Only)
October 17, 2007 — The 102nd Civil Support Team, Oregon Army National Guard, mobilized today at Portland International Raceway during TOPOFF 4, a large multi-state, anti-terrorism training exercise. The 102nd CST...

Guam National Guard Respond to Cabras Island Explosion - Exercise Only
October 16, 2007 — Guam Governor, the Honorable Felix P. Camacho, has been advised that President George W. Bush has issued a Presidential Disaster Declaration for Guam. Dept of Homeland Security and Guam Fire...

New agreement to help balance active Army, National Guard
October 12, 2007 — WASHINGTON - A new agreement between the active Army and Army National Guard represents a big step toward achieving the force structure balance Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. calls...

Recruiting and retention numbers exceed goal
October 12, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - During Fiscal Year 2007, the Army National Guard exceeded its congressional end strength goal for the first time in more than three years, and the Air National Guard just missed its...

Guard unit helps protect nation's skies
October 12, 2007 — MIAMI, Fl. (AFPN) - On Feb. 4, 2007, the Indianapolis Colts played the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI in Miami's Dolphin Stadium.As the Colts' offense took the field with 1:32 left in the third...

Soldiers killed in January helicopter crash interred at Arlington Cemetery
October 12, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters thundered over Arlington National Cemetery in an aerial salute for a group interment to 12 Soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq earlier this...

Guard Soldiers compete with Army's top 24 warriors
October 11, 2007 — FORT LEE, Va. - Out in a field here behind an operations center for the U.S. Army's 2007 Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Year event, Staff Sgt. Mark Dornbusch and Spc. Erik Nowak both made...

National Guard celebrates Army recruitment success
October 5, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Several Army National Guard Soldiers shared in a piece of Big Army's sweet recruiting success on Thursday. Twelve Soldiers from each of the Army components participated in a...

Guard unit recognized for record deployment
October 5, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - A recently-returned Minnesota National Guard unit is getting the kudos it deserves this week.The House of Representatives passed a Concurrent Resolution Oct. 1 that commended Soldiers...

Ohio air show features World War II Mustangs
October 3, 2007 — COLUMBUS, Ohio - James Denman was one of the first to arrive at Ohio's Rickenbacker International Airport for the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends, a four-day air show hosted in conjunction with Air...

Policy Change Boosts G.I. Bill Eligibility for Some Guard, Reserve Members
October 2, 2007 — A recent Defense Department policy change widens the eligibility window for some Reserve-component troops who want to use their Montgomery G.I. Bill education benefits, a senior DoD official said here...

Orange County Choppers unveil Guard's "Patriot Chopper"
October 2, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Hundreds of Soldiers gathered here in front of the Army National Guard Readiness Center on Sept. 27 to witness the unveiling of the "Patriot Chopper," the first of three bikes to be...

Non-standard load: Pennsylvania Chinook airlifts C-130 fuselage
September 28, 2007 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - Residents of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area may have been a tad startled on the afternoon of Sept. 14 when they saw the fuselage of a C-130 aircraft flying through the sky...

NGB chief and Pakistan military officials visit Stryker brigade in Pennsylvania; relationship forming
September 28, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The chief of the National Guard Bureau and Pakistani military officials visited the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard Training in central...

Air Force Heritage Week soars in Ohio
September 26, 2007 — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AFPN) - Ohio officials honored the Air Force when the lieutenant governor proclaimed Sept. 24 to 30 as Air Force Heritage Week in a ceremony held Sept. 24 at Rickenbacker Air National...

Disabled Veteran Foundation riders visit Oregon National Guard Headquarters in Salem
September 26, 2007 — SALEM, Or. - Emmy-nominated actor, Jack Scalia, visited Soldiers at the Oregon National Guard's Anderson Readiness Center in Salem, Ore., on Sept. 24. But instead of arriving in a limousine, as is...

Kentucky Soldiers clean up Iraqi neighborhood
September 24, 2007 — The call came across the radio as the humvee rattled and shook down a dirt road in the Al Furat section of Baghdad - activity in a nearby abandoned building directed at Soldiers manning guard towers...

Blum addresses National Guard issues with defense scribes
September 24, 2007 — WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Guard has its highest-quality, best-trained personnel force in history but continues to face a domestic equipment shortage, said LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the...

143rd Infantrymen join Hondurans on range, in sky
September 21, 2007 — SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Airborne infantrymen from the Texas Army National Guard's 36th Infantry Division shared their small weapons training expertise with an elite group of Honduran military...

New York Guardsmen Earn Danish Military March Ribbon

Kentucky Guard Builds Portable Air Base for Patriot 26

Three Components, One Army: LaNeve Stresses Guard’s Role in Army’s New Priorities

Pennsylvania Guardsmen Demonstrate Drone Innovation Project

Nordhaus, Raines Outline a National Guard Focused on the Future