Guard News - The National Guard

Annual Northern Lightning exercise returns to Volk Field
August 10, 2020 — CAMP DOUGLAS, Wis. — Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center is hosting approximately 50 aircraft and nearly 1,000 members of the National Guard, Air Force, Army, and Navy as part of the annual... MORE

A variety of the world’s most advanced aircraft have assembled at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center in Wisconsin for the joint accredited exercise Northern Lightning 2 exercise Aug. 10-21.

Northern Lightning: Vermont Guard Airmen train in Wisconsin
August 5, 2020 — SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – Airmen, aircraft and support equipment from the 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont Air National Guard, began departing Aug. 3 to train at the Volk Field Air National Guard base in... MORE

Airmen assigned to the 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont Air National Guard, deploy to Volk Field, Wisconsin, for Operation Northern Lightning, Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vt., Aug. 3, 2020. A C-130 assigned to the 146th Airlift Wing, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, flew the Green Mountain Boys to partake in a two-week exercise where they will train on combat operations involving the F-35A Lightning II.

NH National Guard hosts Cyber Yankee regional training
August 3, 2020 — PEMBROKE, N.H. – The New Hampshire National Guard hosted Cyber Yankee 2020, a regional exercise to provide cyber responders a virtual range to train and test their skills against cyberattacks, at the... MORE

New Hampshire National Guard Lt. Col. Woody Groton, exercise director of Cyber Yankee 2020, leads New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on a tour of the event on July 31, 2020, at the Edward Cross Training Center in Pembroke, N.H. The two-week regional exercise enhanced the Guard's ability to respond to cyberattacks against state government and critical infrastructure.

National Guard’s ultimate Joint Fires training opportunity
July 27, 2020 — GRAYLING, Mich. – Summer in Northern Michigan means boating, fishing – and increasingly, premier Joint Fires readiness training. Since 2012, Northern Strike, the National Guard Bureau’s largest joint,... MORE

A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan Army National Guard, uses a collimator sight to ensure a M777 155mm howitzer is on target before firing the gun in a direct fire training exercise during Northern Strike 20, Camp Grayling, Michigan, July 25, 2020.

Michigan Army Guard artillery, aviation units conduct cold weather sling load and howitzer live fire exercise
March 7, 2014 — GRAYLING, Mich. - Soldiers of the Michigan Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery Regiment, with support from Soldiers with B Company, 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment and... MORE

A CH-47 Chinook with a slingloaded M-777 155mm howitzer flies overhead as Soldiers with the Michigan Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery Regiment, use picks to remove inches of ice in order to set up their howitzers during a live fire exercise at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Mich. Soldiers from the battalion conducted training on cold weather and slingload operations, transporting, setting up and firing their howitzers in temperatures that got down to -30 degrees

Hawaii Air Guard, Marines Host Hazmat-Combat Training in Toxic Swell 25

Iowa Air Guard’s 132nd Civil Engineer Squadron Participates in Exercise Toxic Swell 25

New York Guard's Harlem Hellfighters Honored by Congress

Alaska Air Guard 168th Medics Train for Real-World Combat Casualty Care

Kentucky Air Guard Flexes Maritime Skill in Caribbean for Emerald Warrior