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Nebraska Guard Infantry Trains on Survival Tactics
March 1, 2024 — YUTAN, Neb. - Soldiers with the Nebraska Army National Guard’s Company B, 2-134th Infantry (Airborne), conducted survival, evasion, resistance and escape training Feb. 3-4 at the Mead Training Site...

SERE, Nebraska National Guard Team up for Hoist Training
November 7, 2023 — OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. - The 55th Operations Support Squadron’s survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, better known as SERE, joined with the Nebraska Army National Guard to conduct...

Nebraska Army Guard, Alaska Air Guard Team Up for Training
October 3, 2023 — LINCOLN, Neb. - Twenty-eight Soldiers serving in the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 2-134th Infantry Battalion (Airborne) jumped from a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard...

Fallen Army Guard Sniper Honored in Memorial Competition
March 1, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Va. – When Jane Horton laid her husband, Spc. Christopher Horton, to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, she had just two lines to describe the love of her life. She chose “valiant...

Nebraska Guard Conducts TOW Missile System Training Exercise
December 27, 2022 — FORT RILEY, Kan. – Nebraska National Guard Soldiers from the 1-134th Cavalry Squadron and 2-134th Infantry Battalion had the rare opportunity to conduct live-fire training with 32 missiles Dec...

Nebraska Training Center Command Hosts Heartland Fury
September 7, 2022 — LINCOLN, Neb. – Army National Guard company command teams from across Nebraska attended Operation Heartland Fury at the Camp Ashland and Mead training sites Aug. 27.The operation, hosted by Training...

‘Keep Truckin’: Army National Guard Finds its Best Warriors
August 1, 2022 — TULLAHOMA, Tenn. – Right before a rope climb, Sgt. Tyler Holloway, a fire support specialist with the Wyoming Army National Guard’s 115th Field Artillery Brigade, decided to add some levity to what...

Nebraska Guard recognized for protecting whooping crane
March 31, 2022 — LINCOLN, Neb. – For eons, majestic whooping crane, perhaps the best-known endangered species, have migrated in great flocks from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and back again. A critical stopover in...

134th Infantry’s lone WWII Medal of Honor recipient a ‘One Man Army’
March 24, 2022 — LINCOLN, Neb. – Staff Sgt. Junior James Spurrier was born in Castlewood, Virginia, Dec. 14, 1922, as James Ira Spurrier Jr. to Ira and Ruby Spurrier. When Spurrier enlisted into the Army on Sept. 25,...

Nebraska Soldier recognized for lifesaving actions
March 23, 2022 — SAN DIEGO – Nebraska Army National Guard Sgt. Brittany West was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by Joint Task Force North’s top leaders March 15 for saving a fellow service member’s life.West —...

Nebraska Guard helps restore Djibouti village water supply
January 7, 2022 — CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – Living in a water-scarce environment is a reality for millions of people around the globe, including in Djibouti, where the average annual rainfall is 4.7 inches. With so...

Nebraska Army Guard helps contain wildfire
June 25, 2021 — LINCOLN, Neb. – Nebraska Army National Guard helicopter crews helped battle wildfires near Brush Creek June 24-25.At the direction of Gov. Pete Ricketts, the Nebraska Army National Guard activated two...

Army Guard command CWO reflects on 2 years in the position
September 23, 2020 — ARLINGTON, Va. – For Chief Warrant Officer 5 Teresa Domeier, the command chief warrant officer of the Army National Guard, horses are an integral part of what it meant to grow up in rural Nebraska. It...

113th Wing Recognized for Air Defense, Combat Performance

Washington Guard Concludes Extended Wildfire Response

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New York Guardsmen Earn Danish Military March Ribbon

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