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Nebraska Guard Strengthens Disaster Response Readiness
September 10, 2026 — YUTAN, Neb. – About 250 Nebraska National Guard Soldiers and Airmen gathered at the Atlas Readiness Center Sept. 1-3 for an annual joint field training exercise designed to strengthen the Guard’s...

West Virginia Air Guard Trains for Complex Trauma Response
August 26, 2026 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Eleven members of the West Virginia Guard’s 130th Airlift Wing’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives, or CBRNE, Enhanced Response Force Package,...

Washington Guard, Thai Partners Share Disaster Response Tips
February 19, 2025 — PRACHINBURI, Thailand - Washington National Guard and Royal Thai Army Soldiers participated in their annual Homeland Assistance Disaster Relief subject matter exchange from Jan. 30 to Feb. 8, in...

Robot Boosts Louisiana Guard Civil Support Team Readiness
December 4, 2024 — NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 62nd Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team has a new robot system, enhancing its ability to gather vital information from potentially hazardous...

Weapons of Mass Destruction Exercise Tests Interoperability
July 18, 2024 — LIHUE, Hawaii – Members of the 33rd Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team tested interoperability during a weapons of mass destruction exercise with the Kaua’i Emergency Management Agency,...

Virginia’s Search and Extraction Team Proves Capabilities
July 16, 2024 — FORT BARFOOT, Va. - More than 200 Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen conducted multiple mass casualty response drills during a collective training exercise. The Soldiers and Airmen are...

Hawaii Air Guard Trains on Urban Search and Rescue
July 8, 2024 — LIVERMORE, Calif. - Members of the 154th Medical Group Detachment 1 participated in the 2024 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Medical Specialist Course at the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Training Center...

Army Guard Elevates Disaster Response with UAS Training
April 18, 2024 — REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – In preparation for the direst of days on the homeland front, a dozen Citizen-Soldiers recently enhanced their technical acumen on unmanned aviation systems after completing a...

Army Lab Provides Upgraded Mobile Labs to National Guard
April 12, 2023 — ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center has created and distributed to the National Guard 68 state-of-the-art emergency response...

10th Homeland Response Force Guardsmen Cover CBRN Basics
October 12, 2022 — JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Decontamination subject matter experts with the Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force conducted a two-day hazardous material familiarization course...

Hawaii Airmen, Marines Practice Chemical Warfare Response
October 7, 2022 — JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – Hawaii Air National Guard Airmen completed a chemical warfare and decontamination exercise Sept. 2 alongside joint and total force partners.More than 70 Airmen...

Alaska Army Guard conducts multiagency CBRNE exercise
March 28, 2022 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Army National Guard’s 103rd Civil Support Team, National Guard CST units from other states, and local and federal agencies participated in Van Winkle...

Oregon Guard participates in emergency preparedness exercise
June 21, 2021 — WARRENTON, Ore. - Following a monumental season of wildfires, ice storms and the pandemic over the past year, emergency preparedness has become less of an afterthought and more of a necessary priority...

National Guard, partners to conduct ORCA 21 CBRNE exercise
May 14, 2021 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Hundreds of National Guard Civil Support Team units from 11 states will participate in Exercise ORCA 2021 in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Seward...

92nd CST fires up Exercise Desert Torch in Vegas
April 22, 2021 — LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas residents had the opportunity to witness a flurry of training activity starting April 20, as the Nevada National Guard’s 92nd Civil Support Team conducted mock emergency HAZMAT...

Wisconsin Guard's Civil Support Team among nation’s best
June 25, 2020 — MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin National Guard’s 54th Civil Support Team (CST), a specialized unit of full-time Army and Air National Guard members trained to respond to chemical, biological,...

Retired Texas Air National Guard Pilot Recalls Protecting Air Force One on 9/11

Nebraska Guard Strengthens Disaster Response Readiness

Kentucky Guard Strengthens Skills During Patriot 2026

113th Wing Recognized for Air Defense, Combat Performance

Washington Guard Concludes Extended Wildfire Response