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Hall: New Policies to Relieve Stress, Promote Unit Cohesion
January 17, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The new Defense Department policy limiting the duration of call-ups to 12 months is already in effect for National Guard and reserve members being ordered to active duty, the senior DoD...

Kentucky Guard Unit Checks Air Quality at Derailment Site
January 16, 2007 — WASHINGTON - A special team of National Guardsmen is conducting an environmental survey at the site of a train derailment that occurred this morning in Brooks, Ky.The derailment occurred south of...

Department Builds on Stryker Experience to Support Extended Guard Unit
January 12, 2007 — WASHINGTON - Tapping into lessons learned after an active-duty unit in Alaska had its deployment in Iraq extended, the Defense Department is rushing assets to Minnesota to help families of deployed...

"Surge" extends Minnesota Guard unit's Iraq tour up to 125 days
January 11, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - At least 4,000 National Guard Citizen-Soldiers may spend an extra four months in Iraq as part of the president's troop increase announced Wednesday.The Minnesota Army National Guard's...

Texas National Guard Team Puts Training to Good Use
January 10, 2007 — AUSTIN, Texas - In a scene reminiscent of emergency measures seen in cities across the country after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, downtown Austin was temporarily blocked to people and...

Hudson represents all enlisted members of transformed Guard
January 9, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - He wears a U.S. Army uniform, but Command Sgt. Maj. David Ray Hudson once was in the U.S. Air Force. That makes him uniquely qualified to be the senior enlisted advisor to the chief...

Honors from ‘sea to shining sea’
January 5, 2007 — Guard members help lay former president to restARLINGTON, Va. - National Guard men and women across the nation paid their respects and supported the country’s tribute to Gerald R. Ford, the 38th...

National Guard rescues people, cattle after severe winter storms
January 5, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen in eight states rescued people and hauled hay to livestock following a severe end-of-year winter storm that stretched from America’s northern to southern...

Squad runs gamut of convoy escort missions
January 4, 2007 — CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq - Staff Sgt. Michael Warmenhoven and his squad from Company B, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry have run the gamut of convoy escort security missions for the 1st Brigade Combat Team,...

Platoon's mission changes for the better
January 4, 2007 — LSA ANACONDA, Iraq - During their first three months in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Brad Lahti and his platoon from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 136th Combined Arms Battalion manned an entry control point 24 hours...

Retired Kentucky Guard Soldier helps expand Freedom Calls program for families
January 4, 2007 — Links families to Soldiers serving in five areas in Middle EastOn the third Saturday in December, the Cats and Cards squared off once again in the commonwealth’s most heated state rivalry, and many...

Minnesotan Trades Crown for Cammies
January 1, 2007 — WASHINGTON - A 22-year-old college student recently traded her beauty-queen tiara for the Kevlar helmet she'll wear when she deploys with her Minnesota Army National Guard unit to Iraq.For the past...

National Guard Responds to Second Colorado Storm
December 29, 2006 — WASHINGTON - About 165 members of the Colorado National Guard have been activated since yesterday in the wake of the state's second blizzard in 10 days, the state adjutant general said today.This...

Michigan Guard Members Prepare for President Ford's Burial
December 29, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Hundreds of Michigan National Guardsmen are preparing to welcome home President Gerald R. Ford, who died Dec. 26 at age 93 at his residence in Rancho Mirage, Calif.Ford grew up in Grand...

Mortar Operations in Fallujah, Iraq
December 28, 2006 — CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - In just a couple of minutes, Soldiers of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 136th Combined Arms Battalion, can make the enemy have a bad day.That is the time it takes four Soldiers...

Puerto Rico Guardsmen experience combat up close
December 27, 2006 — SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) - As luck would have it, Staff Sgt. Victor Vega and his C-130 Hercules aircrew were just about to take off when the attack started. The 198th Airlift Squadron transport had just...

Deployment in Iraq is a family affair for Kentucky National Guard unit
December 27, 2006 — Like many units in the Kentucky National Guard, the 410th Quartermaster Company, based in Danville, Ky., considers itself family. When you eat, sleep, and work with the same people day in and day out,...

370th birthday painting captures Guard’s history since 9/11
December 21, 2006 — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - “It’s a gift to Soldiers in the Guard and their families,” said Springfield native John Fulton, creator and artist of a watercolor painting presented to the Missouri National...

National Guard aids victims of holiday winter storm
December 21, 2006 — ARLINGTON, Va - The first day of winter hammered the Midwest, and the National Guard helped to soften the blow.More than 60 Colorado National Guard members and their equipment jumped into action Dec...

Military Aircrews Continue Supporting Mount Hood Rescue Effort
December 19, 2006 — WASHINGTON - After finding the body of one missing climber on Mount Hood, Ore., members of the Oregon Army National Guard, Nevada Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve continued the search Monday...

Massachusetts Guard Welcomes Fifth‑Generation Fighter

Alabama Guard Helps De-Escalate Metro Station Confrontation

Alaska Guard Rescues Pilots From Two Plane Crashes

Retired Texas Air National Guard Pilot Recalls Protecting Air Force One on 9/11

Nebraska Guard Strengthens Disaster Response Readiness