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After 80th D-Day Commemoration, Hokanson Looks to Future
June 8, 2024 — OMAHA BEACH, NORMANDY, France — After honoring the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ D-Day invasion and subsequent liberation of Europe, the National Guard’s top general looked forward Friday, focused...

In Thailand, Hokanson Sees Enduring Partners in Name and Practice
May 21, 2024 — BANGKOK –The National Guard’s top officer visited with Washington Guardsmen and Royal Thai Armed Forces troops training together May 7-9. The Washington National Guard has worked closely with Thailand...

Guard, Partner Nations Collaborate at State Partnership Program Conference
April 26, 2024 — LAS VEGAS – National Guard members and leaders from partner nations came together last week to participate in the State Partnership Program conference—an annual forum to collaborate about global...

Guard Bureau Chief Sees Innovation, Tech Converge in Texas
March 12, 2024 — AUSTIN – Innovation and emerging technology underscored the National Guard’s senior-most officer’s visit to Texas on March 9-10.Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief, National Guard Bureau, met with Texas...

Hokanson Explores National Guard Cooperation with Kingdom of Denmark
January 27, 2024 — COPENHAGEN – On the last leg of a four-country trip to strengthen security cooperation between the National Guard and European partners, the Guard’s senior-most officer talked with Danish Armed Forces...

In Colombia, Hokanson Highlights Security Cooperation Partnerships
September 17, 2023 — CARTAGENA, Colombia – Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson joined regional defense leaders at U.S. Southern Command’s South American Defense Conference 2023 recently, highlighting the role of the Department of...

National Guard’s top general stresses individual, unit readiness
March 4, 2022 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Individual and small-unit readiness remain critical priorities, the National Guard’s top officer told a gathering of senior Army Guard leaders from across the nation this...

Hokanson: ‘Whatever the combatant commanders need, we must be ready to deliver’
August 9, 2021 — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Readiness for its primary mission of fighting America’s wars makes the National Guard’s domestic responses possible, Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson told enlisted troops here Sunday...

National Guard committed to COVID response
March 11, 2021 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Risks are part of the job description for pararescue jumpers. But, as Chief Master Sgt. Seth Zweben recalled, the leap into the unknown to deliver COVID-19 virus test kits to 3,500...

Army leaders visit COVID-19 screening site in Maryland
April 1, 2020 — LANDOVER, Md. – U.S. Army leaders visited a COVID-19 screening site outside the nation's capital March 31 to learn how the National Guard can help civilian agencies fight the spread of the...

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