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Retired Ky. Guard Airman honors vets with homemade wreaths
November 23, 2018 — LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Christmas season can be a joyous time of family and community, but it's also tinged with sadness for many whose loved ones have passed away. One retired Kentucky Air Guard member...

Md. Army Guard member reflects on support his unit gave him
November 20, 2018 — ANNAPOLIS, Md. – On the day Sgt. 1st Class Quintin C. Steele was promoted to his current rank, he took time to speak on the overwhelming support his unit provided him at a time when it was needed...

History: At end of WWI, N.Y. Guard helped occupy Germany
November 19, 2018 — SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In just 24 hours, the warm welcome for New York National Guard Soldiers serving in the Allied Army of Occupation shifted 180 degrees. New York Doughboys marching into Germany...

Pennsylvania Guardsman zeroes in on President’s 100 award
November 14, 2018 — PITTSBURGH - Imagine lying in a large open field, supporting a long-range rifle. You gaze down the barrel through iron sights attempting to hit a target 600 yards away while using just your hands to...

Guard oxygen Airmen help 176th Wing aircrew breathe easy
November 13, 2018 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - When Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Connie Camama deployed to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, it was the security forces Airman's job to keep aircrew...

Ohio Air Wing recruiter finds success in innovation
November 9, 2018 — MANSFIELD, Ohio – Tech. Sgt. Nicholas M. Alexander, recruiter from the 179th Airlift Wing, is using innovation to bring awareness of the Ohio Air National Guard to the local area. Although Alexander...

Alaskan village welcomes Santa on his early rounds
November 8, 2018 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska National Guard and the Salvation Army united Nov. 1 to take Operation Santa Claus to the village of Emmonak. An HC-130J Combat King II aircraft...

133rd Army National Guard Band provides more than just music
November 7, 2018 — CAMP MURRAY, Wash. - “Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who was particularly noted for his fairy tales. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Scott Pierson, commander of...

History: National Guard assisted WWI allies in ending war
November 7, 2018 — ARLINGTON, Va. - At 11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on Nov. 11, 1918 ("the eleventh hour of the eleventh month"), an Armistice took place between the Allied and Central powers across all battle zones. It...

167th Airlift Wing officers participate in exchange program
November 5, 2018 — MARTINSBURG, W. Va. - Once opponents, the United States and Germany have grown a close alliance since the end of World War II. For more than three decades, their respective military members have...

Citizen-Warrior: Military, police work go hand-in-hand for Guard member
October 31, 2018 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Air Force Staff Sgt. Rodrigo Acosta, a security forces specialist with the Arizona Air National Guard's 162nd Wing, said he felt fortunate to belong to an Arizona-based unit when he...

U.S. Soldiers host Halloween fall festival in Ukraine
October 31, 2018 — YAVORIV, Ukraine - Soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard along with Canadian and Lithuanian counterparts hosted a Halloween fall festival Oct. 27 for Ukrainian soldiers and their families...

New Jersey Guard recruiter knows disabilities inside and out
October 30, 2018 — JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. - On Oct. 18, all eyes were on New Jersey Army National Guard Capt. Domenico Lazzaro as he walked up to the podium using two canes. Seventeen months had passed...

Guard members answer the call to serve as volunteer firefighters
October 30, 2018 — HARRISBURG, Pa. - With a critical shortage of volunteer firefighters, some National Guard members find themselves stepping up to serve in another uniform. The volunteer firefighter shortage is so...

Armistice left some New York Guard Soldiers with mixed feelings
October 26, 2018 — SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The last American Soldier to die in World War I—and the last Soldier of any of the warring powers to die during the war—was a member of the 313th Infantry Regiment, made up of...

Idaho Army National Guard member builds pizza chain
October 23, 2018 — POCATELLO, Idaho - Idaho Army National Guard Sgt. Brian Padigimus had never been to New York, taken a culinary arts course or worked in a restaurant before opening a New York-style pizzeria, but he...

Horsham Air Guard Station makes efforts to conserve energy
October 19, 2018 — HORSHAM AIR GUARD STATION, Pa. - October is Air Force Energy Action Month. This is part of the Energy Flight Plan, which the Air Force established to enhance mission assurance through energy...

Coolest job in the Air Force, in a manner of speaking
October 15, 2018 — HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Oxygen begins to boil at -297 degrees Fahrenheit and will freeze at around -361 degrees Fahrenheit — in between these two temperatures you have oxygen in liquid form...

Ohio Air National Guard recruit follows her father's path
October 12, 2018 — MANSFIELD, Ohio - Col. Gary McCue has been in the Ohio Air National Guard for 35 years. In his current position as the director of staff for Air at the Ohio Joint Force Headquarters in Columbus, McCue...

Physician assistant helps to put New York Guard Soldiers first
October 10, 2018 — WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. – For New York Army National Guard Physician Assistant Maj. Stephen Carson, service to his community was part of his life before graduating high school. Now, 12 years after...

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