Guard News - The National Guard - Mar 2012

Active-duty downsizing should benefit Reserve forces
March 8, 2012 — WASHINGTON - A policy board plans to ask Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta to highlight service in the reserve forces as a good option for outgoing active duty members during downsizing.In its first...

Hawaii counterdrug program offers a second chance to at risk youth and families
March 8, 2012 — HONOLULU - As Alexander Pope said, "To err is human." For young people, errors can have a detrimental impact on the rest of their life. However, Pope also said, "To forgive is divine." Here in Hawaii,...

Obama: Troops, veterans will benefit from housing settlement
March 8, 2012 — WASHINGTON - Thousands of service members and veterans whose mortgages were wrongfully foreclosed on, or who were improperly denied lower mortgage interest rates in the national housing crisis, can...

Program to expedite security for troops at Reagan Airport announced
March 8, 2012 — WASHINGTON - Some service members traveling out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport soon will be able to speed through security as part of a joint Defense Department and Transportation...

West Virginia National Guard members rescue stranded citizen after tornado
March 8, 2012 — KIAHSVILLE, W.Va. - On the evening of March 2, Janet LynnPorterfield - a resident from here - was doing something most of the state was doing: watching the development of a tornado on TV.But unlike...

Soldiers on path to success at National Guard Patriot Academy
March 6, 2012 — MUSCATATUCK URBAN TRAINING CENTER, Ind. - People face challenges every day and some of them can be more difficult than others, but regardless of what those challenges are or where they originate from,...

Afghanistan: Georgia Guard welcomes visit from Bulgarian president
March 6, 2012 — KABUL, Afghanistan - After being in office for only a little over 30 days, the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, and his delegation paid a special visit to his deployed...

Indiana Guard members compete for best-of-the-best competition
March 6, 2012 — EDINBURGH, Ind. - Screams and cheers of encouragement filled the air as Indiana Army National Guard Soldiers navigated over obstacles designed to give the most skilled amongst them a challenge – all...

North Carolina Guard member among those to meet first lady Obama
March 6, 2012 — RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina National Guard Army Staff Sgt. Stacy Garner is ready for anything. She has excelled while completing the Army Air Assault School and even deployed to a combat zone in...

'Serving Our Troops' serves families, Minnesota Guard members at home, deployed
March 6, 2012 — ST. PAUL, Minn. - Soldiers currently deployed with the 1st Brigade Combat Team come from more than 500 Minnesota communities, but they all have one thing in common - each of them has a family they...

Texas National Guard members support local authorities in emergency exercise
March 6, 2012 — EL CAMPO, Texas - Soldiers from Joint Task Force 71 received the activation call at 3:45 a.m. following the alleged terrorist incident. Within two hours, the men and women of the minuteman brigade...

Wyoming National Guard, Tunisia partnership expanding
March 5, 2012 — CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The African nation of Tunisia and the Wyoming National Guard are furthering their relationship a year after a Tunisian revolution kicked off the Arab Spring.The two countries were...

Kentucky Guard supports local communities in eastern Kentucky
March 5, 2012 — SALYERSVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky's motto, "United we stand, divided we fall," set the stage at ground zero after severe tornadoes ravaged several communities in eastern Kentucky, March 2.Local law...

Kentucky governor: Devastation is "unlike anything I have ever seen"
March 5, 2012 — FRANKFORT, Ky. - After visiting catastrophic damages from Friday's severe storms and tornadoes, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear spoke with both President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet...

Missouri National Guard mobilized to assist in storm response effort
March 5, 2012 — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Gov. Jay Nixon has mobilized the Missouri National Guard to assist civil authorities in Branson following a night of severe storms."These storms have caused extensive damage...

Missouri Guard engineers assist Taney and Stone counties
March 5, 2012 — BRANSON, Mo. - Missouri National Guard engineers are supporting local law enforcement in southwest Missouri following last week's severe storms.Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers are supporting...

National Guard responds immediately after tornadoes
March 5, 2012 — FRANKFORT, Ky. - Before the first winds crossed the Commonwealth of Kentucky March 2, the Kentucky National Guard made preparations to keep its Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen safe and ready to assist in...

Ohio Air Guard Airmen help test new bio-fuel for the F-16
March 5, 2012 — TOLEDO, Ohio - In a joint effort by Airmen from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Airmen from the Ohio Air National Guard's 180th Fighter Wing, the F-16...

Kentucky Guard conducts search and rescue operations
March 5, 2012 — WEST LIBERTY, Ky. - Kentucky National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen converged on the remains of West Liberty, Ky., March 3, to assist local fire and law enforcement in recovery and relief...

Partnership built during exercises succeeds during disaster
March 5, 2012 — FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky's Emergency Operations Center - the heart of recovery and relief efforts at the Boone National Guard Center - buzzed with activity March 3 after Gov. Steve Beshear declared a...

Florida Guard Chaplains Host First Changing of the Stole Ceremony

Oklahoma Guard Strengthens Critical Capabilities During Exercise Thunderstruck

Oregon Guard Uses New Hoist Technology in Rescue

Chief of National Guard Bureau visits Purdue to discuss national security, military education

Alaska Guard Rescues Injured Mountain Biker