Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2007

DoD Unveils Compensation Program for Frequent Deployments
April 19, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The Defense Department today unveiled a program that will reward administrative leave to servicemembers whose service in combat does not meet the department's goal for the time at home...

'The War Tapes' Offers First-Person Look at Operation Iraqi Freedom
April 19, 2007 — WASHINGTON - When a soldier returns from war, is he the same person he was before deploying?No, he's not, said Robert May, producer of "The War Tapes," a documentary that shows Operation Iraqi Freedom...

Joint Task Forces in New York accustomed to speed, tailored support
April 19, 2007 — JOINT FORCE HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD, LATHAM - A record-breaking nor'easter was the backdrop for the alert and mobilization of large numbers of New York National Guard personnel aligned...

Policy Change Boosts G.I. Bill Eligibility for Some Guard, Reserve Members
April 18, 2007 — WASHINGTON - A recent Defense Department policy change widens the eligibility window for some Reserve-component troops who want to use their Montgomery G.I. Bill education benefits, a senior DoD...

Rescue of School Children Highlights NH Guard Role in Nor'easter
April 18, 2007 — CONCORD - The rescue of 18 children in Nottingham, whose school was surrounded by flood waters, highlighted the NH National Guard's efforts throughout the state to assist first responders during...

Deployment Stress on Guard, Reserve Has Lessened, Hall Says
April 17, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The stress of repeated overseas deployments for National Guard and Reserve members has lessened in recent years, the Defense Department's reserve-component chief told a special commission...

Top Official Describes Reserve-Component Mobilization Policy
April 17, 2007 — WASHINGTON - National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers will mobilize and deploy for only one year, despite a new policy that active soldiers will deploy for 15-month tours, a top defense official...

Army to invest $100 million in Muscatatuck; major training exercise to be conducted in May
April 17, 2007 — INDIANAPOLIS - Nearly $100 million will be invested in the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center over the next six years to transform it into a major training facility for the Army.Governor Mitch Daniels,...

Airmen mark 60th anniversary, throw out first pitch
April 13, 2007 — PITTSBURGH - Three-years ago, the weather, terrain and local hospitality couldn't have presented a more startling contrast. It was exceptionally hot and not every person they met in the sands of...

Guard, Reserve leaders speak before Senate
April 13, 2007 — WASHINGTON - Military leaders from the National Guard and Reserve testified before members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense, April 11 on Capitol Hill to give a status on...

Guard Leaders Urge Solid Funding to Close Equipment, Training Gaps
April 12, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The National Guard force is second to none in terms of the quality of its people, but severe equipment shortfalls are keeping it from being fully ready, the chief of the National Guard...

Clarke named Air Guard's deputy director
April 12, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - An Alabama Air National Guard general officer who has served at the Pentagon for nearly a year has been named deputy director of the Air National Guard.Brig. Gen. Stanley Clarke III...

Generals Campbell and Fraser Announce Alaska Shield Northern Edge 2007
April 12, 2007 — Anchorage, Alaska - Major General Craig E. Campbell, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs; Lieutenant General Douglas Fraser, ALCOM Commander; John Madden, Division...

Return to the Middle East; Rainbow Division headquarters partners with Egyptian Army for Bright Star 07
April 10, 2007 — NEW YORK - Members of the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division hosted military peers from Europe and the Middle East as planners laid the foundation for the New York National Guard's...

Web-based service lets Airmen get out of line
April 10, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - The Air National Guard is allowing its Airmen to get out of line.That's a good thing. Air Guard members tired of waiting in line now have an alternative to waiting for customer...

Air Guard medic part of association's team of the year
April 9, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Air Force leaders as well as the Air Force Association (AFA) defined teams and teamwork recently as a career group of Airmen from different commands working together. They call them...

Echoes in flight; Charter members reflect on Air Guard's first 60 years
April 9, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Their membership gets older and smaller every day. Nearly 60 years have passed since they formed, but time has not removed distant memories of 1946-47 after they had claimed victory...

Afghan National Police Graduate New Leaders
April 9, 2007 — BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Afghan national police took strides toward taking more control of their own security after a joint team of Soldiers with the 235th Military Police Company, South Dakota...

Four Guard Brigades Alerted for Iraq Duty
April 9, 2007 — WASHINGTON - Four National Guard brigade combat teams have been notified for possible deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, DoD officials said today.The units are the 39th Infantry Brigade...

President Thanks National Guard for Helping Secure U.S.-Mexico Border
April 9, 2007 — WASHINGTON - President Bush today thanked National Guard members deployed across Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico for helping the Border Patrol crack down on illegal entry across America's...

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