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Four N.Y. Guard Soldiers will compete in '18 Winter Olympics
January 23, 2018 — LATHAM, N.Y. - Four New York Army National Guard Soldiers will compete in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month. The four New York Citizen-Soldiers are enrolled in the...

New York Guard Soldiers will compete in biathlon meet
January 19, 2018 — LATHAM, N.Y. - Three New York Army National Guard Soldiers are heading for Vermont next week to compete against 42 Soldiers from six other Eastern states in Eastern regional qualifying meet and...

Spiritual, mental, physical fitness can help G.I. stability
January 17, 2018 — CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – "When you're spiritually and emotionally fit, you'll take care of yourself because you love yourself," said Master Sgt. David Mundy, 35th Infantry Division chaplain assistant...

Young patriot given chance to be a 'Soldier for a day'
January 12, 2018 — NORMAN, Okla. - Since 19-year old Adrian Hinton was a little girl, she had a dream of becoming a member of the armed services. Specifically, she wanted to be a rifleman. During a career fair at the...

N.Y. Air Guard honors former President and Buffalo native
January 10, 2018 — NIAGARA FALLS AIR RESERVE STATION, N.Y. – With temperatures below zero, the 107th Attack Wing here honored the nation’s 13th president with a wreath laying ceremony at his grave at Forest Lawn...

Georgia National Guard recalls bitter winter of 1973
January 8, 2018 — ATLANTA - With brutally cold temperatures impacting the East Coast and with fresh memories of the snowfall accumulation that covered north Georgia in December, winter weather has been foremost in many...

'Dear Dorie' letters tell the story of World War II love
January 5, 2018 — NIAGARA FALLS AIR RESERVE STATION, N.Y.— The skies above Europe during World War II are cold and deadly but set the stage for a love story that spans more than two years. Nine months of that is spent...

Vet, 92, receives WWII recognition 70 years after the fact
January 4, 2018 — NORTH LAS VEGAS – More than seven decades after participating in some of the most harrowing battles of World War II, William Grant Jr.'s heroic and meritorious Army service was recognized with his...

Citizen-Warrior: Idaho Guard member keeps patients healthy in air, on ground
January 1, 2018 — BOISE, Idaho - As an undergraduate student, Army Capt. Derek Derkacs, an aeromedical physician assistant with the Idaho Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 183d Aviation Regiment, was studying to...

Joint Colorado Guard team trains to perform in hot zones
December 29, 2017 — CENTENNIAL, Colo. - The Colorado National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Package is a joint Army National Guard and Air National Guard team that...

Colorado National Guard takes mountain unit to new heights
December 29, 2017 — CENTENNIAL, Colo. - The 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment (Mountain), Colorado Army National Guard is one of only three mountain infantry battalions in the U.S. Army. Through a new partnership...

From Senegal to citizenship: One Conn. Soldier's story
December 28, 2017 — BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - He enlisted in April 2017, looking forward to accomplishing his training, returning to Connecticut as a qualified Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic assigned to Alpha Company, 192nd Engineer...

Christmas Eve road march honors deployed service members
December 27, 2017 — GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — New York National Guard Soldiers, Airmen, families and community supporters made up more than 1,200 marchers here Dec. 24 as part of a Christmas Eve Road March to remember the...

North Carolina Soldier finds his match in love and kidney
December 26, 2017 — RALEIGH, N.C. - In 2001, when Sgt. 1st Class Martcello "Martello" Houston was fresh out of basic training and attending school to become a human resources specialist, he met another young Soldier...

Youth ChalleNGe Academy leads to Idaho Airman’s service
December 21, 2017 — BOISE, Idaho — The road that leads someone to serve in the Idaho Air National Guard isn't always the most traditional route. Airman 1st Class Cody Gilbert, an aircraft armament systems specialist with...

N.Y. Air National Guard will track Santa on Christmas Eve
December 20, 2017 — ROME, N.Y – New York Air National Guard members and Royal Canadian Air Force personnel from the Eastern Air Defense Sector will play a key role Christmas Eve as the North American Aerospace Defense...

N.Y. Airman returns from hurricane support with furry friend
December 19, 2017 — STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. - When Staff Sgt. John Cox, an air transportation specialist assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing, deployed to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Oct. 9, he assumed he would...

In 1917, N.Y. Guard Soldiers celebrated pre-march Christmas
December 15, 2017 — LATHAM, N.Y. - In December of 1917 the National Guard Soldiers of the 42nd Division were all in France, waiting for training in the trench warfare that marked World War I in Europe. The division's...

Guard medics get on-the-job training with Wisconsin Badgers
December 14, 2017 — MADISON, Wis. — From 1861 until the end of the Civil War in 1865, more than 70,000 Wisconsin troops trained at Camp Randall here in Madison. Today, Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers continue to train...

Alaska Guard fuel supply specialist keeps aircraft flying
December 11, 2017 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - For Alaska Army National Guard Sgt. Cody Foster, attending Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was his first time to the South, or anywhere...

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