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National Guard Professional Education Center Celebrates 50 Years
May 20, 2024 — NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Fifty years ago, the Army National Guard identified a need to provide ongoing training to the Soldiers and civilians who worked for the Guard full time, keeping units and... MORE

Col. Cathi Cherry, commander of the Professional Education Center; Maj. Gen. Jonathan Stubbs, adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard; Lt. Col. Elvin Zapata, oldest Soldier serving at PEC; Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders; Sgt. Rhett Crandall, youngest Soldier serving at PEC; and Lt. Gen. Jon Jensen, director of the Army National Guard, cut the cake at a 50th-anniversary celebration for the PEC on Camp Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas, May 16, 2024. PEC is home to more than 480 courses spanning six battalions to train Army National Guard Soldiers and Department of Army civilians in cybersecurity, human resources, logistics, recruiting and retention, strategy and leader development, and finance.

Virginia Cyber Brigade Leads Cyber Shield 2023
June 27, 2023 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In the early 2000s, the Defense Department and the National Guard Bureau realized that cyber threats were on the rise and would only become more prominent in the United States and... MORE

North Carolina Army National Guardsmen participate in the annual Cyber Shield training event June 14, 2023, at the Professional Education Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Cyber Shield is a collaborative training event that brings together military branches, states and nations to develop and maintain defensive cyber forces against network-based attacks.

National Guard Education Center Gets 1st Woman Leader
June 21, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – The first woman to head the National Guard Professional Education Center took command of the training institution in a ceremony June 16 at the PEC’s campus at Camp Joseph T. Robinson,... MORE

Army Col. Catherine L. Cherry receives the colors of the National Guard Professional Education Center from Lt. Gen. Jon A. Jensen, director of the Army National Guard, as she took command of the center during a change of command ceremony at the PEC’s Militia Hall at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas, June 16, 2022. Cherry is the first woman to command the PEC, which was established as a training center in 1974.

Army Guard cyber event entices future Soldiers
May 13, 2021 — BEEBE, Ark. - Fatigued but determined, a squad of new Soldiers was within a football field of the final objective — a radio tower they needed to take out.The newbies had already cleared buildings of... MORE

Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Gregory Backus, an information protection technician with the Army National Guard’s Professional Education Center, initiates a cyberattack on the computer networks of students participating in Interactive War Games, a cyber awareness event at Arkansas State University-Beebe, April 28, 2021. Backus was showing students what a cyberattack looked like as they were participating in simulated battlefield drills from laptop computers.

National Guard Mobilizes Again to Provide Hurricane Relief

Tennessee Guardsmen Support Hurricane Recovery

Oklahoma Guard Supports Hurricane Relief in South Carolina

Ohio Guard Aircrews Assist with Hurricane Response Ops

California Airmen Receive Purple Heart Following Jordan Attack