Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2007

Air Force Heritage Week soars in Ohio
September 26, 2007 — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AFPN) - Ohio officials honored the Air Force when the lieutenant governor proclaimed Sept. 24 to 30 as Air Force Heritage Week in a ceremony held Sept. 24 at Rickenbacker Air National...

Disabled Veteran Foundation riders visit Oregon National Guard Headquarters in Salem
September 26, 2007 — SALEM, Or. - Emmy-nominated actor, Jack Scalia, visited Soldiers at the Oregon National Guard's Anderson Readiness Center in Salem, Ore., on Sept. 24. But instead of arriving in a limousine, as is...

Kentucky Soldiers clean up Iraqi neighborhood
September 24, 2007 — The call came across the radio as the humvee rattled and shook down a dirt road in the Al Furat section of Baghdad - activity in a nearby abandoned building directed at Soldiers manning guard towers...

Blum addresses National Guard issues with defense scribes
September 24, 2007 — WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Guard has its highest-quality, best-trained personnel force in history but continues to face a domestic equipment shortage, said LTG H Steven Blum, the chief of the...

143rd Infantrymen join Hondurans on range, in sky
September 21, 2007 — SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras - Airborne infantrymen from the Texas Army National Guard's 36th Infantry Division shared their small weapons training expertise with an elite group of Honduran military...

It's JUNIOR! He'll drive the Guard car next year
September 20, 2007 — DALLAS, Tx. - Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose family's name is part and parcel with the American motorsports legend, will drive the Chevrolet that the National Guard will sponsor in NASCAR's top-level...

Maryland National Guard Responds to Peru Earthquake
September 19, 2007 — BALTIMORE, Md. - Two crews from the Maryland Air National Guard's 135th Airlift Squadron found themselves unexpectedly pressed into service following an 8.0-magnitude earthquake in Peru Aug. 15."They...

Rhode Island National Guard Holds 25th Annual International Military Parachute Competition
September 19, 2007 — Oldest and largest such competition in the world welcomes 56 U.S. and international teams Rhode Island National Guard Public AffairsNORTH KINGSTOWN, RI - Cloudless blue skies, comfortable...

Nevada Guard continues search for missing pilot
September 17, 2007 — Searching in some of the most rugged areas in the most mountainous state in the United States, the Nevada National Guard anticipated continuing its search to determine the whereabouts of millionaire...

Nevada generals represent best of military, civilian employers
September 17, 2007 — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Nevada National Guard Brigadier Generals Frank Gonzales and Bob Fitch had a legitimate wardrobe option for the 2007 Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Awards Ceremony...

Guard follows downgraded Humberto's path
September 13, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Hundreds of National Guard Soldiers in Texas and Louisiana were prepared to respond with manpower and equipment Thursday as Hurricane Humberto was downgraded to an inland tropical...

Exercise tests Virginia Guard's vigilance
September 12, 2007 — FORT BELVOIR, Va. - Eighty-eight Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers helped to defuse a simulated explosive situation during the second day of a Vigilant Guard training exercise here Sept. 6.It was...

Guard and Reserve Members Must Take Action to "Make the Switch" to Restructured TRICARE Reserve Select
September 12, 2007 — FALLS CHURCH, Va. - National Guard and Reserve members currently in the TRICARE Reserve Select (TRS) health care plan must sign up for the restructured TRS by Sept. 30, 2007, in order to continue...

Maryland Guard vigilant in homeland defense exercise
September 12, 2007 — BALTIMORE, Md. - Soldiers of the Maryland National Guard's 115th Military Police Battalion were among the first troops securing the scene at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, and six years later, some...

Hire A Hero program links veterans with jobs
September 11, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - Although much of the stress associated with a National Guard deployment concludes upon redeployment, a new concern can surface as Soldiers and Airmen return to their homes. It is the...

NASCAR driver Mears meets with Guard Soldiers
September 10, 2007 — ARLINGTON, Va. - National Guard Soldiers indulged their inner NASCAR spirits Sept. 6 when No. 25 National Guard/GMAC racecar driver Casey Mears, accompanied by up-and-coming driver Landon Cassill,...

North Dakota Guard responds to Northwood tornado
September 7, 2007 — NORTHWOOD, N.D. - The school mascot here is "Thunder," and a tornado brought a thunder like no other, ripping through this northeast North Dakota town of about 900 people on the night of Sunday, Aug...

Nevada Guard helping to search for missing pilot Fossett
September 6, 2007 — Searching in some of the most remote areas in the most mountainous state in the United States, the Nevada National Guard continues to seek the whereabouts of millionaire adventurer and pilot Steve...

Mississippi Citizen-Soldier's heroism didn't stop when he returned from war
September 4, 2007 — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Staff Sgt. Danny Stanley served a year in Iraq, but the awards for heroism came for what the National Guard Citizen-Soldier did back home.Stanley is credited with saving the...

"You are the best among us," McCain tells Guard
August 29, 2007 — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - "America must make a new and lasting commitment to the National Guard," U.S. Sen. John McCain said here Aug. 27."The actions of Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen since the Sept. 11,...

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