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181st SFS Defenders Conduct Multiday ACE Exercise
June 13, 2023 — MUSCATATUCK URBAN TRAINING CENTER, Ind. - Airmen from the 181st Security Forces Squadron conducted an agile combat employment and domestic response exercise at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center and...

Arkansas Airmen Complete Combative Training Exercise
June 9, 2023 — EBBING AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ark. - Members of the 188th Security Forces Squadron honed their combat skills during a rigorous combative training session June 8.The training exercise, which aligns...

Cyber Yankee Prepares Military, Business for Cyber Threats
June 8, 2023 — NIANTIC, Conn. - In the face of rising cyber threats, the Department of Defense has increased its efforts to recruit and build cyber capabilities. According to the 2023 DOD Cyber Strategy, the...

IRT Hoosier Care Offers Free Medical Care to Community
June 8, 2023 — TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - An Innovative Readiness Training mission called IRT Hoosier Care provides vision exams, single-vision eyeglasses, dental exams and extractions and basic medical exams — including...

Maryland Army National Guard ‘Takes Flight’ with Raven
June 6, 2023 — JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – Soldiers with the Maryland Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, trained with the RQ-11 Raven at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in...

Guard Leaders Welcome Ukraine Family Support Organizers
June 2, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Virginia – Caring for those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine took a personal turn for National Guardsmen at the Temple Army Readiness Center recently.Members of TAPS Ukraine, a...

SEA Whitehead Honors Families of the Fallen
June 2, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Senior Enlisted Advisor Tony Whitehead, SEA to the chief of the National Guard Bureau, honored surviving military families May 26-29 during a Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors...

Virginia, West Virginia Guardsmen are Regional Best Warriors
June 2, 2023 — FORT BARFOOT, Va. - Virginia National Guard Staff Sgt. Dan Abbott and West Virginia National Guard Spc. Bret Williams took top honors in the five-day Army National Guard Region II Best Warrior...

New York Army National Guard MPs Aid Car Crash Victims
June 2, 2023 — MANORVILLE, N.Y. - Seven New York Army National Guard MPs worked together to help two people severely injured in a car accident on Long Island’s Sunrise Highway May 20.The Soldiers, assigned to the...

194th Wing Conducts Phoenix Dawn Readiness Exercise
May 31, 2023 — CAMP MURRAY, WASH. - Washington Air National Guard Airmen from the 194th Wing participated in a multi-day, base-wide readiness exercise to evaluate their ability to generate, employ and sustain combat...

National Guard Provides Medical Care to Idaho, Nevada Tribes
May 30, 2023 — LAPWAI, Idaho - Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota and Nevada National Guard members provided medical, dental and eye care for Native American Tribes in Idaho and Nevada as part of Operation Nimiipuu Health in...

Iowa National Guard Trains in Wyoming’s Higher Elevation
May 30, 2023 — CAMP GUERNSEY, Wyo. – Iowa National Guard infantry and aviation units traveled west by ground convoy and air to conduct annual training at the Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center in Wyoming at the end...

Texas Air Guard Medical Group Completes Required Training
May 30, 2023 — HONOLULU - Nearly 50 Texas Air National Guardsmen assigned to the 136th Medical Group traveled in the wing’s C130J Super Hercules to Tripler Army Medical Center, Army Post Schofield Barracks, and...

188th Wing Hosts Emergency Management Course
May 30, 2023 — EBBING AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ark. - The 188th Wing hosted the Air National Guard’s Specialized Personnel and Equipment for Austere Reconnaissance and Surveillance (SPEARS) course at the Fort...

National Guard Honors Fallen in Memorial Day Observances
May 26, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Va. - The National Guard is honoring service members who died for their country in Memorial Day observances across the country this weekend. “When we remember what the fallen have given us,...

40th Infantry Division Hosts Urban Operations Planner Course
May 26, 2023 — LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. - With over half the world’s climbing population living in cities, the future of urban warfare is inevitable. Consequently, the same military strategies used in desert and forest...

173rd Fighter Wing to Host F-35 Training Squadron
May 26, 2023 — KINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. - The Air Force has selected the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing as the preferred location to host the service’s next F-35A Lightning II training squadron. The...

Texas Army Guard Team Wins Marksmanship Contest
May 25, 2023 — CAMP ROBINSON, Ark. – Four Texas Army National Guard members won the 52nd Annual Winston P. Wilson Championship in Little Rock April 29-May 5.The National Guard annually hosts the competition to...

Army National Guard Support Vital to EDGE 23
May 25, 2023 — YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. - The Army Futures Command Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team (FVL CFT) held its Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event 23 at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground over...

National Guard’s Joint Staff Emphasizes Tactical Wellness
May 25, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Va – Nearly 100 Soldiers, Airmen and family members of the National Guard Bureau’s joint staff participated in a Joint Staff Tactical Wellness event May 18 at the Herbert R. Temple Jr. Army...

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