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Massachusetts Guard Proves Combat Readiness in Patriots Resolve Exercise
June 25, 2026 — OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. – The Massachusetts National Guard’s 102nd Intelligence Wing conducted a combat readiness inspection called Patriots Resolve June 3-6 to evaluate the wing’s...

Florida Guardsmen Maintain Readiness Under Exposure, Stress
March 27, 2026 — CAMP BLANDING JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Fla. – Soldiers and Airmen of the Florida National Guard conducted the first joint Oleoresin Capsicum, or OC, spray certification in decades to maintain readiness...

Texas Army Guard Hosts Safety Leaders on Readiness
March 4, 2026 — SAN ANTONIO – Army National Guard safety professionals from across the country gathered Feb. 24-26 to discuss how to keep Soldiers safe while maintaining readiness.They gathered at Martindale Army...

Wyoming Guard Aviators Sharpen Wildfire Response Skills in Training
April 25, 2025 — CAMP GUERNSEY, Wyo. – Wyoming Army National Guard aviators, in coordination with local and state firefighting agencies, conducted annual interagency bucket drop training April 16 at Camp Guernsey...

Army Establishes New Fitness Test of Record to Strengthen Readiness and Lethality
April 22, 2025 — WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army announced Monday the establishment of the Army Fitness Test (AFT) as the official physical fitness test of record for all Soldiers, replacing the Army Combat Fitness...

70 Years Ago: Operation Minuteman Demonstrates Effectiveness of National Guard
April 21, 2025 — ATLANTA, Ga. – In April 1955, the National Guard’s 400,000-strong force responded to an unprecedented activation exercise. Operation Minuteman, which was conceived by Maj. Gen. Edgar Erickson, chief...

Raines Visits Saipan, Focuses on Troop Support, Readiness
April 8, 2025 — SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands – The National Guard serves in nearly every ZIP code—from the southern U.S. border to remote islands in the western Pacific. For some Guard members, geographic...

Oklahoma Army National Guard Enhances Artillery Readiness
March 12, 2025 — OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Army National Guard Soldiers demonstrated their ability to rapidly mass troops and equipment during live-fire artillery training at Fort Sill March 7-9.The Soldiers, assigned...

Virginia Guard Takes Holistic Approach to Health, Readiness
May 10, 2024 — RICHMOND, Va. – While the Virginia National Guard has long had dedicated personnel ready to respond to a Soldier or Airman in crisis, a new team of specialists focuses on prevention to help maintain...

Team Whiteman Demonstrates Readiness During Spirit Vigilance
April 23, 2024 — The 509th and 131st Bomb Wings capped off the most recent iteration of exercise Spirit Vigilance by performing a mass fly-off of 12 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers April 15 at Whiteman AFB...

139th Airlift Wing Tested in Large-scale Readiness Exercise
June 15, 2023 — ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - The 139th Airlift Wing conducted a large-scale readiness exercise June 8-11 at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base.Fourteen Inspectors from Air Mobility Command’s Inspector General...

Psychological Health Directors Discuss Readiness Impacts
May 2, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Va. - More than 75 Air National Guard directors of psychological health focused on best practices, trends and changes to psychological health needs for Guard Airmen at a workshop April...

Driving Simulator Boosts Readiness for Connecticut Guard
April 12, 2023 — EAST GRANBY, Conn. - The Connecticut National Guard’s 103rd Airlift Wing at Bradley Air National Guard Base is using computer-generated imagery to enhance readiness.In 2021, the wing used innovation...

Georgia Army Guard Hones Readiness at XCTC Exercise
June 24, 2022 — FORT STEWART, Ga. – Georgia Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 177th Brigade Engineer Battalion familiarized themselves with M2 and M249 machine guns and M4A1 carbines during an Exportable...

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...

WVNG medical unit ensures Soldier readiness, COVID response
June 10, 2021 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The second floor of the U.S. Army Reserve building may seem at first glance like an unassuming office space.Within that space, however, resides a unit that plays a crucial role in...

111th Med Group vaccinates wingmen, achieves top readiness
May 20, 2021 — HORSHAM, Pa. – The 111th Medical Group has administered more than 900 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Airmen and Defense Department civilians on base from Jan. 27 to May 20 while maintaining its top...

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