Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2007

Disaster Exercise Prepares Arizona National Guard, State For Real-World Situations
October 18, 2007 — PHOENIX, Az. - "We've just received a report there's been an explosion at the intersections of Loop 101 and 202," announced news anchor Forrest Sawyer with the Virtual News Network. "At this time, we...

Disaster Response Update Number One (1) (Exercise Only)
October 18, 2007 — Notice to Media: Future Arizona JIC Press Releases Will Now Be Sent Out Under the State and Federal Disaster News LetterheadFederal, state, tribal and local authorities continue to conduct a...

Arizona National Guard Activates 91st Civil Support Team (Exercise Only)
October 18, 2007 — Phoenix, AZ. - The Arizona National Guard's Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team (WMD CST) was activated at 1 p.m. today and dispatched to the location of the explosion that occurred at the...

New "Active First" plan gets its first Missouri enlistment
October 17, 2007 — LEBANON, Mo. - On Oct. 10, John Weaver, of Phillipsburg, became the Missouri National Guard's first enlistee under the new "Active First" recruiting plan.Weaver, a Lebanon High School graduate, said...

Guam National Guard Respond to Cabras Island Explosion - Exercise Only
October 17, 2007 — Release No. 2007-10-17.1.Members of the Guam National Guard, Guam's first military responders, were called upon by Gov. Felix P. Camacho to assist the local first responders at the Cabras Power Plant...

Oregon National Guard Stands up First-Ever Oregon Joint Task Force (Exercise Only)
October 17, 2007 — The Oregon National Guard has stood up Oregon's first-ever Joint Task Force (JTF) during the large multi-state, anti-terrorism training exercise known as TOPOFF 4, Oct. 16-19 at the Portland Air...

Oregon National Guard Participates in Global TOPOFF Exercise (Exercise Only)
October 17, 2007 — The 102nd Civil Support Team, Oregon Army National Guard, mobilized today at Portland International Raceway during TOPOFF 4, a large multi-state, anti-terrorism training exercise. The 102nd CST...

Guam National Guard Respond to Cabras Island Explosion - Exercise Only
October 16, 2007 — Guam Governor, the Honorable Felix P. Camacho, has been advised that President George W. Bush has issued a Presidential Disaster Declaration for Guam. Dept of Homeland Security and Guam Fire...

New agreement to help balance active Army, National Guard
October 12, 2007 — WASHINGTON - A new agreement between the active Army and Army National Guard represents a big step toward achieving the force structure balance Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. calls...

Recruiting and retention numbers exceed goal
October 12, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - During Fiscal Year 2007, the Army National Guard exceeded its congressional end strength goal for the first time in more than three years, and the Air National Guard just missed its...

Guard unit helps protect nation's skies
October 12, 2007 — MIAMI, Fl. (AFPN) - On Feb. 4, 2007, the Indianapolis Colts played the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI in Miami's Dolphin Stadium.As the Colts' offense took the field with 1:32 left in the third...

Soldiers killed in January helicopter crash interred at Arlington Cemetery
October 12, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters thundered over Arlington National Cemetery in an aerial salute for a group interment to 12 Soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq earlier this...

Guard Soldiers compete with Army's top 24 warriors
October 11, 2007 — FORT LEE, Va. - Out in a field here behind an operations center for the U.S. Army's 2007 Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Year event, Staff Sgt. Mark Dornbusch and Spc. Erik Nowak both made...

National Guard celebrates Army recruitment success
October 5, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Several Army National Guard Soldiers shared in a piece of Big Army's sweet recruiting success on Thursday. Twelve Soldiers from each of the Army components participated in a...

Guard unit recognized for record deployment
October 5, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - A recently-returned Minnesota National Guard unit is getting the kudos it deserves this week.The House of Representatives passed a Concurrent Resolution Oct. 1 that commended Soldiers...

Ohio air show features World War II Mustangs
October 3, 2007 — COLUMBUS, Ohio - James Denman was one of the first to arrive at Ohio's Rickenbacker International Airport for the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends, a four-day air show hosted in conjunction with Air...

Policy Change Boosts G.I. Bill Eligibility for Some Guard, Reserve Members
October 2, 2007 — 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 official said here...

Orange County Choppers unveil Guard's "Patriot Chopper"
October 2, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Hundreds of Soldiers gathered here in front of the Army National Guard Readiness Center on Sept. 27 to witness the unveiling of the "Patriot Chopper," the first of three bikes to be...

Non-standard load: Pennsylvania Chinook airlifts C-130 fuselage
September 28, 2007 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - Residents of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area may have been a tad startled on the afternoon of Sept. 14 when they saw the fuselage of a C-130 aircraft flying through the sky...

NGB chief and Pakistan military officials visit Stryker brigade in Pennsylvania; relationship forming
September 28, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The chief of the National Guard Bureau and Pakistani military officials visited the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard Training in central...

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