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National Guard Staged for Florida Hurricane Response
September 28, 2022 — ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Some 5,000 Florida National Guard troops were ready Wednesday to help residents in the wake of Hurricane Ian, a massive storm making landfall in heavily populated southwest... MORE

New Seals a ‘Singular Representation’ of Army, Air Guard
August 19, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Seals are the oldest form of heraldic insignia and have evolved over time to represent monarchies, families, and organizations. As a military design, seals represent the common... MORE

SEA Whitehead to Enlisted Guardsmen: ‘Thank you’
August 9, 2022 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Over the past two years, National Guardsmen were activated at historic levels for missions overseas and at home. Today, there are more than 50,000 National Guard members supporting... MORE

Long-term Relationships Drive State Partnership Program Success
July 26, 2022 — PRAGUE, Czech Republic – When Daryl Bohac came here in 1998, he didn’t just help advance a young partnership between the Czech Republic and the Nebraska National Guard – he returned to his ancestral... MORE

Three Nations, One Goal: Continued Freedom
June 24, 2022 — VILNIUS, Lithuania – Three Baltic nations are laser-focused on one goal: defending their independence and territorial integrity.The chief of the National Guard Bureau heard the same message in visits... MORE

National Guard Coordinates Transport of German Satellite
June 22, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – A rocket carrier is barely recognizable from a distance on a typically foggy June morning at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Its payload, the German Ministry of Defense’s... MORE

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... MORE

Continued Investments Make Guard Effective, Chief Says
June 7, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – The chief of the National Guard Bureau told senators June 7 that continued investments in the National Guard mean it will be able to effectively support the Joint Force while quickly... MORE

New Air National Guard Exercise Tests Agility in Michigan
June 7, 2022 — ALPENA, Mich. – Air National Guard Airmen and aircraft from around the country are conducting the first Air National Guard Readiness Exercise Program event, Agile Rage 22. This exercise is hosted by... MORE

Army National Guard signal conference highlights data, data transport modernization
June 1, 2022 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A theme echoed throughout May’s 2022 Army National Guard G-6 Tactical Communications Conference stressed the importance of data and rapid resilient data transport as the Army... MORE

Summit underscores team nature of cyber defense
April 25, 2022 — FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Senior leaders from around the U.S. Cyber Command enterprise discussed the future of cyber operations, evolving capabilities and deeper integration during a summit April... MORE

Hokanson: State Partnership Program critical to national security
April 12, 2022 — DENVER – A three-decade security cooperation program with almost half the world’s nations is critical to America’s national security, the National Guard’s most senior general said last week.Army Gen... MORE

National Guard winds down COVID-19 support, remains ready
April 8, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – With COVID-19 case counts and positivity rates decreasing, the Department of Defense ended its active-duty component’s support for coronavirus missions last week.But Defense... MORE

Alaska National Guard hosts Arctic Interest Council
April 1, 2022 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – When delegates of the National Guard Arctic Interest Council representing six states visited the arctic city of Kotzebue March 29, they witnessed a... MORE

Navajo life helped forge NGB diversity director's passion
March 31, 2022 — CARSON CITY, Nev. – Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, named Col. Lawrence Yazzie the bureau’s director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in October. Lawrence is... MORE

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... MORE

National Guard chief returns from African regional security talks in Rome
February 7, 2022 — ROME – The National Guard Bureau’s chief, Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined the 2022 African Chiefs of Defense Conference here last week for a series of... MORE

New Army Guard company, battalion headquarters activated at NGB
February 2, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va. – A new company and battalion headquarters were activated in the Army National Guard directorate at the National Guard Bureau in a ceremony at the Herbert R. Temple Army National Guard... MORE

Army Guard husband, wife promoted to chief warrant officer 5
December 22, 2021 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Only about 3% of those in the Army are warrant officers, and rarer still are those who have reached the top warrant officer rank – chief warrant officer 5. So, it was even more... MORE

National Guard COVID-19 survivor recounts fight for his life
November 3, 2021 — ARLINGTON, Va. - It felt like a cold. Normal enough, it seemed. After all, it was cold season, and it was something to get over quickly and be forgotten about just as quickly, thought Air Force Lt... MORE

Oklahoma Guard, Azerbaijan Participate in Disaster Response Exercise

8th Civil Support Team Conducts Annual Evaluation Exercise

National Guard Staged for Florida Hurricane Response

Illinois National Guard, Polish Partners Remember the Fallen

New Hampshire Airman Wins 140-mile Ultramarathon in Africa