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New Jersey Air Guard 177th Civil Engineer Squadron Trains for World Cup Security
August 18, 2025
U.S. Army Spc. Gordon Trotman, member of the New Jersey National Guard’s 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction–Civil Support Team, left, observes as Spc. Andrew DeJesus, also with the 21st WMD-CST, uses his phone to communicate with team members during a joint training exercise at Mercer County Park, West Windsor Township, New Jersey, July 31, 2025.
Army Guard Elevates Disaster Response with UAS Training
April 18, 2024
A dozen Citizen-Soldiers from Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosive response teams recently completed a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers qualification course at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on operating unmanned aviation systems, enabling the Army National Guard members to fly the R80D Skyraider, pictured here. The systems provide live digital video and employ onboard sensors to relay environmental conditions while mitigating the need to put Soldiers in harm’s way.
New Jersey, Delaware, Idaho Guard Conduct Interagency Training
April 5, 2024
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Robert Wittig, left, closes the helmet on Senior Airman Russell J. Bongiovanni’s EOD-10E bomb suit. The explosive ordnance disposal technicians with the 177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, were participating in the Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High Yield Explosives Characterization, Exploitation, and Mitigation Course at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton, New Jersey, March 27, 2024.
WMD civil support teams train on land, sea, in air
May 23, 2022
Florida Army National Guard, Lt. Col. Mark Bianchi, 48th Civil Support Team commander, briefs local, state and federal authorities and other CST teams from New York, Illinois, Georgia, North and South Carolina at the C.W. Bill Young Armed Forces Reserve Center during Operation Night Hammer May 22, 2022.