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Las Vegas Student Corrects Course at Youth ChalleNGe Academy
June 25, 2024
The recipient of this semester’s Battle Born Youth ChalleNGe Academy’s Director’s Award for Excellence, Ayla Lain, came very close to never seeing her academic potential blossom. Abandoned by her parents at birth, the former student at Del Sol Academy in Las Vegas attempted to take her own life during her junior year.

Nevada Army Aviator Moves to Finance, Logistics Management
January 19, 2024
Lt. Col. Andrew Wagner, a longtime Army aviator, on Jan. 19, 2024, becomes the 10th U.S. property and fiscal officer for Nevada since the conclusion of World War II. He is shown on Jan. 17 next to memorabilia saved from Lt. Col. Michael Norton’s stint as the first USPFO for Nevada following the global conflict.

Navajo life helped forge NGB diversity director's passion
March 31, 2022
Col. Lawrence Yazzie, the new director of the National Guard Bureau's Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, addresses a crowd at a symposium in Iowa in 2018. Yazzie grew up on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, played basketball at the Air Force Academy and commanded the Iowa Air Guard’s 168th Cyberspace Squadron.

Las Vegas vaccine hunters find hero in Nevada Guard Soldier
March 25, 2021
Las Vegas National Guard Sgt. John Huss with Joint Task Force 17 works at the entry point at the Cashman COVID-19 vaccination site March 16, 2021, in Las Vegas. Huss helped his chain of command streamline the vaccine standby list.