Guard News - The National Guard

Reserve wing will be first to host Guard associate
July 31, 2007 — TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (AFPN) - The Air Force Reserve Command's 507th Air Refueling Wing begins a new partnership in August when members of the Oklahoma Air National Guard team up for the drill...

Civilian hospital provides training for Texas National Guard medics
July 30, 2007 — Patients in the emergency room at the Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, may find they are being treated by someone in a camouflage uniform.That's because a dozen health care...

Leaders endorse Pakistan, National Guard partnership
July 26, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The chief of the National Guard Bureau and Pakistani military officials said Wednesday they strongly support a partnership between the National Guard and Pakistan.LTG H Steven Blum and...

Apache pilots save critically-wounded Soldier with unorthodox evacuation
July 24, 2007 — LOGISTICS SUPPORT AREA ANACONDA, Iraq - Two pilots from Company B, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack), 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, risked their lives in an unorthodox casualty...

49th Soldiers earn prestigious German marksmanship award
July 20, 2007 — FORT GREELY, Alaska - The distinctive foreign marksmanship award attached to Class A uniforms by a cord is sometimes seen worn by Soldiers who've been stationed in Germany. Stateside Soldiers rarely,...

Safety, Alaskan Style
July 19, 2007 — FORT GREELY, Alaska - When it comes to safety, Soldiers stationed at this distant, somewhat extreme corner of the world must be on top of their game. Nearly all Soldier activities, both on duty or...

Changing with the Guard
July 18, 2007 — DENVER (AFPN) - Seventy Air National Guardsmen are slated to begin working at the Air Reserve Personnel Center later this year for the first time in its history.The new Guardsmen are a result of the...

National Guard task force keeps Army helicopters in the fight
July 17, 2007 — CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - A unique National Guard maintenance task force keeps Army helicopters flying in Iraq and Afghanistan.The National Guard has four Aviation Classification Repair Activity Depots...

Maryland brigade assumes Iraqi mission from Indiana
July 17, 2007 — VICTORY BASE, Iraq - It is an old Army tradition marking one unit leaving and another taking its place. The flag of one unit is ceremoniously rolled and covered by a thin green case, while the flag...

Air Guard opens new combat training runway
July 13, 2007 — HATTIESBURG, Miss. - It's a 3,500-foot-long stretch of cement with a few hundred feet added on, just in case. That's not much space to safely land a heavily loaded, half-million pound cargo plane on,...

Guard Plans to Adjust Number of Troops Serving on U.S.-Mexican Border
July 12, 2007 — WASHINGTON - The National Guard plans to adjust the number of personnel performing security duty along the U.S.-Mexican border from about 6,000 to about 3,000 members, a National Guard Bureau...

Ice and fire: Eskimos in Kuwait
July 11, 2007 — CAMP BUERHING, Kuwait - Hot like a giant hairdryer; like standing under a giant magnifying glass; or like turning an oven to 127 degrees, jumping in and closing the door.These are ways Eskimo members...

Illinois Unveils Mental Health Services for Returning Guardsmen, Veterans
July 9, 2007 — WASHINGTON - All Illinois National Guard troops returning from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan now will be screened for traumatic brain injury and get access to post-traumatic stress disorder help...

Happy Hooligans fly first UAS mission from Fargo
July 6, 2007 — Fargo, N.D. - Gov. John Hoeven and N.D. National Guard Adjutant General Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk announced July 2 that the 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, has flown its first...

Ohio town pulls together, honors airman killed In Iraq
July 5, 2007 — McCLURE, Ohio - In small town America, when people see a funeral procession approaching, they still pull their cars over to the shoulder and pay their respects. But when McClure, Ohio, recently lost...

Some in recovery, others see major rainfall
July 5, 2007 — CAMP MABRY, Austin, Texas - The heavy thunderstorms that resulted in flooding all across Texas during the past 20 days is abating in some parts of Texas but may result in additional flooding through...

Cooks Compete in Coveted Competition
July 3, 2007 — CAMP GRAYLING, Mich. - It was more than the mid-day sun and the hot kitchen causing the food service specialists of the Coshocton based 1485th Transportation Company, 112th Transportation Battalion to...

Huey's last hurrah
July 2, 2007 — CAMP GRAYLING, Mich. - As you go about your daily routine during annual training this year and the familiar "womp-womp-womp" sounds of helicopters fill the air, stop for a moment and turn your head...

Turnover of Eagle Base symbolizes success in the Balkans
July 2, 2007 — TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - The Stars and Stripes flew over Eagle Base for the last time on the morning of June 30, the day the United States turned this sprawling military installation over to its...

Citizen-Soldiers Honor Fallen Firefighters
July 2, 2007 — KABUL, Afghanistan - Warriors from 218th Enhanced Separate Brigade from the South Carolina National Guard assigned to Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix in Afghanistan paid tribute over the weekend to...

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