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Hokanson: Individual Readiness Makes National Guard Always Ready, Always There
August 29, 2022 — COLUMBUS, Ohio – The physical and mental readiness of each Guard member enables the National Guard to keep its promise to America to stand Always Ready, Always There, the component’s most senior...

Kentucky National Guard Soldier Perseveres to Become a First
August 15, 2022 — FRANKFORT, Ky – It is a rare occasion when a new Soldier, fresh from basic training, shows up to his unit Ranger and Airborne qualified. It is so rare; it has never before been done in the Kentucky...

Kentucky Guard Soldier Helps Local Community After Flooding
August 12, 2022 — LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. – As flood waters rose in Eastern Kentucky, the call went out to the National Guard that their help would be needed. In the hours following the first rainfall, hundreds of Kentucky...

Kentucky National Guard Comes to aid of Flood Victims
August 3, 2022 — FRANKFORT, Ky. – As rain continues to hit most of the eastern part of the state, Kentucky Army Guard aviation crews carry on their search and rescue mission and move on to air-dropping supplies to...

National Guard Assists with Flood Rescue in Kentucky
July 28, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – The Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia National Guard deployed aircraft and troops to Eastern Kentucky to help search for and rescue victims of the severe flash flooding caused by...

Kentucky Guard’s 2/147th Bravo Co. Trains in Michigan
July 26, 2022 — GRAYLING, Mich. - Fifty-six Kentucky National Guard Soldiers from Bravo Co. 2/147th and two medics from Headquarters and Headquarters Company loaded five UH-60 helicopters in Frankfort, Kentucky, July...

Kentucky Guardsmen Pitch in to Help Ease Water Shortage
July 5, 2022 — MARION, Ky. - About 20 Kentucky National Guard Soldiers are helping state and local officials respond to a water shortage in Crittenden County. The Soldiers with the 2061st Multi-Role Bridge Company,...

National Guard Defends the Cyber Front
June 13, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – The National Guard is the nation’s oldest military service, yet uniquely adaptable to a relatively new warfighting domain: cyberwarfare. “The cyber skills that many members of the...

Task Force Red Dragon Hosts D-Day Remembrance in Africa
June 7, 2022 — CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti. – U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to Task Force Red Dragon, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, hosted a D-Day commemoration and ruck march June 6 to...

Kentucky National Guard participates in Tradewinds 22
May 31, 2022 — PRICE BARRACKS, Belize - Kentucky National Guard Soldiers traveled out of the country to support Operation Tradewinds 22 in Belize Apr. 29-May 25.Almost 40 Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters...

Malawi Defense Force JAG visits Kentucky National Guard
May 17, 2022 — FRANKFORT, Ky. – Soldiers with the Kentucky National Guard’s legal team hosted Brig. Gen. Dan Kuwali of the Malawi Defense Force for a two-day visit that included a tour of the Kentucky State Capitol...

Kentucky Guard provides security, directs traffic at Derby
May 9, 2022 — LOUISVILLE, Ky., -- Almost 160,000 spectators were back at Churchill Downs for the running of the 148th Kentucky Derby May 7. Kentucky National Guardsmen from the 223rd Military Police Company and...

Kentucky Guard Hosts Senior Leader Engagement With Ecuador
April 27, 2022 — FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky National Guard leaders welcomed Ecuadorian military and political leaders last month for the most significant Ecuadorian delegation visit to the United States in over a...

Task Force Red Dragon Soldiers join French-led WAKRI 22
April 8, 2022 — CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – Virginia and Kentucky National Guard Soldiers assigned to Task Force Red Dragon serving in Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa joined French Armed Forces and units...

116th IBCT completes exercise ahead of Kosovo deployment
March 3, 2022 — CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo – After nearly a year of training, the Soldiers of the 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 29th Infantry Division, Virginia and Kentucky National Guard, are ready to support the...

Kentucky Guardsman survives tornado, helps others
January 19, 2022 — FRANKFORT, Ky. – As the tornadoes that hit western Kentucky bore down on the small farms and towns, residents ducked into their bathrooms, closets or any other place they could find to ride out the...

National Guard infantry units support East Africa mission
January 14, 2022 — CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – Throughout history, the U.S. Army National Guard’s 1-102nd Infantry Regiment (Mountain) and the 1-116th Infantry Regiment have fought alongside and even against one another...

Air National Guard, Active Air Force train in arctic weather
December 28, 2021 — CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. — Nearly 30 Airmen assigned to the 123rd Contingency Response Group (CRG) returned to Camp Ripley for a second round of cold weather training December 13-17. The Kentucky Air...

Year in Review: National Guard delivered at home and abroad
December 22, 2021 — ARLINGTON, Va. – When a series of tornadoes slashed across parts of eight Midwest states late in the evening of Dec. 10, Spc. Zach Neisz sprang into action. He grabbed an ax, flashlight and medical...

Kentucky Guardsman jumps into action to help neighbors
December 15, 2021 — DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. – One of the more than approximately 600 Kentucky National Guardsmen activated to help respond to devastating tornadoes lives just 8 miles from where the twisters touched down over...

Puerto Rico Guard Distributes One Million Gallons of Water in Drought Response

Guardsmen Boost Domestic Response Capabilities in Patriot 26

Washington Guard Strengthens Fiscal Readiness

Kentucky Guard Prepares Incoming Command Teams for Leadership

New PSYWAR Course Strengthens Guard Capabilities