Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2006

ARPC conducts muster
July 25, 2006 — DENVER - The Air Reserve Personnel Center’s Personnel Readiness Center conducted a muster here yesterday for 57 individual ready reservists.The IRR Muster Program, mandated by Title 10 United States...

DoD Announces Certification for WMD-CST Teams in Four States
July 25, 2006 — The Department of Defense notified Congress yesterday that Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams (WMD-CST) have been certified for four states.These teams are fully ready to assist civil...

Air National Guard Ready, Relevant Force, Director Says
July 24, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The Air National Guard is an integral part of the National Guard force and is transforming to better meet its dual roles of assisting in homeland defense and contributing to the global...

Guard, Reserve Members Relate Insights, Experiences
July 24, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Three reserve-component members related their insights and experiences from service in the war on terror to a congressionally chartered committee in San Antonio on July 19.Army National...

Guard Bureau chief praises NAACP for making National Guard better
July 21, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The chief of the National Guard Bureau thanked the NAACP on July 18 for its help in recruiting minorities and for making the National Guard a better organization.LTG H Steven Blum made...

West Virginia Air Guard unit jump starts medical care
July 20, 2006 — PLAYAS, N.M. – A former medical clinic is rising like a phoenix after years of neglect in this abandoned New Mexico borderland town as a group of West Virginia Air Guard members establish medical...

52nd WMD
July 19, 2006 — CHILLI COTHE, Ohio – Soldiers and Airmen of the Columbus-based 52nd Weapons of Mass Destruction, Civil Support Team (WMD CST) passed a mandatory evaluation during a training exercise in Chillicothe...

Guard members bring civilian skills to Jump Start
July 18, 2006 — DEL RIO, Texas – The National Guard has kept Cpl. Rhett Saunders employed since high school, and that is just fine with the young man from Texas.Soon after returning from a year of force protection...

National Guard ahead of schedule for Operation Jump Start
July 17, 2006 — LAREDO, Texas – The National Guard troops flowing to the Southwest border are highly visible to drivers at an Interstate 35 inspection station north of this Texas border town as Soldiers assist Border...

Blum: Army Guard Enjoying Big Recruiting Successes
July 14, 2006 — WASHINGTON - The Army National Guard is experiencing its biggest and longest-running recruiting success since the end of the draft, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told Pentagon reporters...

National Guard, Border Patrol working as a team
July 12, 2006 — NEAR RADAR HILL, N.M. – Three men scurry around mesquite bushes in the open desert near the United States’ border with Mexico at about 10:45 on a mid-June night.The New Mexico desert just north of the...

America Supports You: Florida Moms Help 'Cell Phones for Soldiers'
July 3, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Two teens' ongoing effort to help deployed servicemembers communicate with their loved ones back home inspired the Orlando-Conway, Fla., chapter of International Moms Club to donate...

America Supports You: Baseball's Nationals Honor Armed Forces
July 3, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals honored members of the U.S. armed forces yesterday during pre-game festivities that highlighted the organization's annual military...

New York gets assist from Pennsylvania
June 30, 2006 — WALTON, NY - Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion worked alongside residents here to help bring relief from catastrophe wrought by flooding in late June.In New...

Guard provides rescue, recovery during northeast floods
June 30, 2006 — WALTON, NY - Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion worked alongside the residents here to help bring relief from the catastrophe wrought by the flooding of the town...

National Guard Units Respond to Flooding in Northeast
June 30, 2006 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - More than 1,000 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard were involved in water rescues, evacuations and other emergency operations during the past days as widespread...

New Mexico Guard troops pave way for Operation Jump Start
June 29, 2006 — COLUMBUS, N.M. - Ninety years ago, this New Mexico border town was the flashpoint for the last significant raid on the continental United States before the terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Now...

Guardsmen provide quick response to plane crash
June 29, 2006 — CAMP DENALI, Alaska (AFPN) - Pararescuemen from the Alaska Air National Guard's 212th Rescue Squadron helped stabilize and transport the passenger of a single-engine plane that crashed near...

Fiscal '07 Air Guard promotions to lieutenant colonel, major announced
June 29, 2006 — DENVER (AFPN) - The Air Reserve Personnel Center here announced today the results of the Fiscal 2007 Air National Guard Line and Nonline Lieutenant Colonel and Major Promotion Selection Boards. The...

Air Force personnel services website renamed to myPers
June 1, 2006 — JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas - The Air Force Personnel Services website is now known as myPers and has a new address.Airmen can access myPers via a secure link, https://mypers.af.mil, to use...

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

Hawaii Guard Sustains Recovery Efforts, Mobilizes for Hurricane Lowell